Tomato 'Sweet 100'

Must keep this plant dry or blight will have it for breakfast.
Better tasting than Sweet Million, but a nightmare to try and grow ...Read Moredown here on the coast.

I have been growing Sweet 100 for years! It is one of my favorite Cherry Tomatoes and in my dry climate, I have no trouble with disease...Read More on it ( knock on wood). I just get so many tomatoes that I can barely pick them all and I love the sweet flavor.
Perhaps it is my extremely dry climate that helps them grow. They get most of their moisture through drip irrigation, not rain. Perhaps that protects them.

they were fast growers, Initially sweet & nicely balanced with tartness but hit with some sort of blight in July which withered the vines...Read More from the lower branches up - took about 10 days for them to be utterly yellowed & withered. The tomatoes turned wicked sour on the sick vines. The grape tomatoes suffered none of that & plugged right along. We preferred the Sweet 100s but the grape tomatoes stayed until the end of the summer so we made so & liked having them. Will not grow Sweet 100 here again.

Apparently it's just me, but I did not like the flavor of these tomatoes. They're sweet - but too sweet - and no tomato taste as I like ...Read Moreit. They grew fine, but I never repeated the experience. I got a 10-cent packet of "cherry" tomatoes at the drug store and liked their real-tomato flavor so well I planted from that packet every year until it was gone.

I love this tomato. It yields lots and lots of yummy cherry tomatoes. I have no experienced any cracking on this fruit. All have been ...Read Moreshaped nicely with no problems and I will grow this again.

Our first year growing these and they turned out really good. They are good to eat straight off the vine. Alot do tend to fall and I noti...Read Moreced some cracking, but these plants were so productive all season we always had more than we could eat anyway.

This is my first year growing tomatos. I planted in the ground (in Colorado) in Mid May - 2 Early Girl, 2 Roma, and 2 Sweet 100's.
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The Sweet 100's have taken over...
I get literally hundreds of the sweetest tomatos I could imagine every week, and judging by the flowering, will get many more. I noticed if I don't trim them once a week they tend to overgrow with long (up to 7 ft!) branches with little flowering. I have also had great luck cutting the tomoatos while still green, and letting them ripen indoors. This is soo much fun!

Better than candy. I grow them in 5 gallon buckets and eat about ten a day when they turn red. I tie them to a 5 foot stick that is in th...Read Moree bucket and eat them after halloween. These are great.

This is probably the best producer of all my tomatoes. Very disease resistant as well. Very drought and heat tolerant too. This is the...Read More only tomato I can actually eat...the others make me gag. It's so sweet! You literally get hundreds of tomatoes each week! Too many to count!

Our second-year planting of Weet 100s was superb. It was in ground that had a lot of horse manure, chopped alfalfa and ground wood chips ...Read Moreadded a year earlier.
Biggest problem with them is the bounty--we couldn't pick them all, and many fell into the lush growth when picking others.
We call them "candy," and graze on them in the garden, take baskets to friends who eat them at their desks. They also make a great salsa--the sweetness adds a flavor of its own.

The leaves on my three sweet 100 plants are curling inward in NW Indiana. All my other tomato varieties are doing well. what am I doing w...Read Morerong? Please help!! I don't want to lose them. I've fertilized twice in the last month with Miracle-Gro. Too much, maybe? Thanks

For cracking, try consistant watering. Drought or not watering often enough or irregularily can cause cracking of fruit. Also amend the s...Read Moreoil with store bought manure before planting & practise crop rotaion from year to year. Tomatoes grown for too many years in the same soil will deplete the soil of what is required by tomatoes. Same goes for many crops.

Growing Sweet 100 in Richmond VA has been very successful as long as the weather cooperated. In good seasons I had hundreds of small frui...Read Moret all season right up to frost. I used a large cage made of concrete reinforcing mesh (metal) and the one plant grew all over the 6' tall cage. Last year we had a drought and I had a lot of lost fruit due to cracking.
Extremely tasty fruit and heavy yield as long as the weather is cooperative.

I have had success for 3 years with this tomato and I live in Arizona. Garden was back of house with early morning exposure until mid da...Read Morey, very hot during July and August. The first year was not a high yield but it was due to soil variations, pests and trampling by children. However, during winter it stayed and began producing in February. The second year, removed first plant and started another plant to other side of yard and was very high yield with over 8 dozen tomatoes. A very unusual thunder storm did pull down plants but tomatoes survived and produced even more. The plants, if drawn up to their complete height, were well over 10 feet tall. I used a product that I use on ALL my plants called Kellog's Amend. The third year (2003), I moved to another house and this year plants are slow to grow with large shade tree covering from mid morning to mid day. Exceptionally high yield and great for toddlers to help pick.

The only drawback I experienced with Sweet 100 was the inordinate amount of fruit loss due to cracking, especially after rainfalls. Othe...Read Morerwise, the taste and productivity were both good.

I have planted Sweet 100 in the past with good results but most fruits were simply cherry sized. Last year, with late frost, floods and ...Read Morethen drought, this variety produced great tasting golfball or bigger sized tomatoes right up to our first killing frost, which was late also, keeping step with the weird season in general (south-central Ohio).
I staked them quite late, after a major flood knocked all my plants over (at least the ones that were not completely washed away!) and it was a mess untangling the vines. I used MiracleGro (I don't work for them!) with the sprayer attachment about 4 times during the growing season, and had to water heavily late in the summer.
Even with variations in weather, the taste was consistently good all through the season. Green tomatoes performed well in pickling, both by themselves and in garden mix, staying firm and crunchy even after heat processing.
**Update: I also saw a good bit of cracking after heavy rain, but that didn't happen much last year where I live!