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? asked in Home & GardenGarden & Landscape · 1 decade ago

How can I tell the difference between Tomato plants?

I accidentally separated a few of my plants when I was re-potting them and now I have no idea which tomato plant is which. They haven't produced any fruit yet so I will not be able to tell by that. I have Super Sweets, Big Boys, Early Girls, Romas and Beef Masters. Half of them are for my aunt. So I would hate to give her all of one kind. Any way of knowing which is which with out waiting? They look the same to me. They're all about 10" high. Some of them are wanting to grow straight up and others want to start growing kind of downwards. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    smell em... if they smell lik sweet, girls, boys, or beef

  • 1 decade ago

    In my experience, I believe you will have to wait to be sure. These are all regular leaf varieties. You might be able to make some guesses based on what you know about the varieties. For instance, the most mature-looking plants now might be the earliest variety to mature, which I assume would be Early Girl. Romas tend to have a stocky looking plant, but I'm not sure you could tell that much from a 10-week old plant. I had a similar problem earlier, when my 2-yr-old granddaughter took all my labels out of one seedling flat!

    What I did was group the seedlings by the similarity of the leaves and thickness of the stalk, and planted them accordingly, but I still don't know which group was which variety. I'm waiting for fruit to know with any certainty.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is a very good question. I did the same thing you did. I should have labelled every plant but I didn't. I am just watching the growth pattern and watching to see if the leaves are a different shape.

    I have been trying to google the name of the tomato plant to see if there is a photo on the web that I can compare the shape of the leaves to.

    I'm glad to hear I am not the only one who does this...LOL.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    rather in undemanding words from the dimensions of the fruit - for sure cherry tomatoes are smaller. in certain circumstances the plant itself would properly be slightly smaller, too, although the leaves look an same as a time-honored tomato plant

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