Requesting Hort. & Type Information about "Italian Sweet"

Growing tomatoes hydroponically for third year. We have our favorites that do well in our climate using our special hydroponic growing method.

We've not grown a tomato that is claimed to be of Italian origin. This morning at farmer's market we picked up a couple of nicely grown seedlings that we will plant in suitable containers when we can learn a little more about them.

I would appreciate knowing how robust (vigorous) these will become in an ideal growing environment. We are in San Diego about 7 miles inland from the Pacific Coast. breezy from the ocean around 300 days each year.

We are having severe drought that has been trending less and less likelihood of increase for nearly 7 years now...no expectations of much a change soon. One of side effects of this drought is that we began having spring in January and so started earlier than ever with our seed sowing. The real smart growers are a couple of months ahead of us...and we are indeed thankful that we can take advantage of this mild weather now for growing time!!

Thanking somebody in advance.

Regards and Happy Growing!

Bob

I would suggest looking this varity up in Plant Files. Hope that helps....

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Italian_Sweet

Above is information and opinions about the variety called Italian Sweet. Not much history known.

I don't know what you mean when asking for Horticultural Type other than to say that the genus and species name is Solanum lycopersicon ( or lycopersicum) mainly in Europe.

You might want to bookmark Tania's wonderful website whch is a data base for over 4,000 varieties, most with basic variety traits, pictures, opinions of others and seed sources, where known,

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Main_Page

Between roughly the years from the late 1800's and the mid 1920's many immigrated to the US from Italy and most received new tomato names as the seeds they brought with them were spread around from person to person b'c most never had names when grown back in Italy. And I certainly have grown many Italian ones as well as first introducing many of them with SSE listings and seed offers.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Category:Italian_Tomatoes

Hope that helps,

Carolyn

Thank you 1lisac and Carolyn
I've checked out information in both Plant Files and http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Main_Page

was able to find highly rated seed source and learn the required information on Italian Sweet Tomato.

Regards,
Bob