Tomato Review: Juliet (Hybrid)

[@sabbyjones2308]

I just joined your channel. Finally a you tube with brix! Thank you

[@brentginastravelingadventures]

Glad to have you watching!

[@GARDENSTATEGARDENER]

Juliet is my #1 Grape Tomato Perfect taste and durability

[@C3Voyage]

It's a really good one.

[@sschueneman]

I discovered Juliet about three to four years ago. I too think it is a very good all around tomato for salads and pan roasting in the oven or on the stove top and for snacking. I like that it has a huge amount of fruit on each plant. I find I need to let them almost over ripen on the plant for best flavor. That is not an issue for Juliet because it does not crack and the plant is fairly disease resistant. They do keep well on the counter after picked for a long time as you also noted. I plant several of these every year now. Its one of my favorites to grow, eat and cook with. One of my only issues is that i have to buy seed because it is a hybrid. Thanks for the video.

[@C3Voyage]

For expensive hybrids or special tomato plants, I'd like to recommend saving suckers near the end of your season. Taking two or 3 suckers, cutting and putting into a small 1-gallon container to root is what I do to preserve breeding plants. The suckers will take a while to root so they grow slow. Once they root enough, the plant will grow from the top and it will generate the first sucker on it. Once the sucker is established (1/2" or so), cut the growing tip just above the sucker (at 4-6") and bury it. That propagates 2 or 3 plants into a lot over the winter. All along, about every 2 weeks (ish), dump the pot over and let the soil fall into a bigger pot while holding onto the "sucker" plants. Gently shake to remove the extra soil and then rinse the roots. Cut 1/2 the roots off all the plants and repot. Cutting the roots and topping above a sucker is the key to a slow, but bountiful crop of plants without having to re-plant seeds. It's also a much faster method to obtain tomatoes when Spring starts. I have a video showing part of what I explained: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGOtpomGgrisj5Y. Only takes about 15 minutes every couple weeks. It's considered cloning of course.

[@sschueneman]

@@C3Voyage Awesome! Thank you. This is so nice of you. I am grateful for your help. I will be trying this at the end of my tomato season here in Minnesota later this fall. I am saving your videos to refer back to. It sounds like a win win situation. I would not have to keep purchasing seeds, and the plants would have a huge advantage in our short growing season. Have you grown any of the Micro-Dwarf tomato plants? It is on my radar for this year to try them. Thank you so very much. Love learning new things.

[@C3Voyage]

@@sschueneman Not micros, but am only now dipping my toe into dwarf lines to make seedless dwarf tomato plants. Micros are coming down the line.

[@luanngilkison5260]

Here in Kansas this past summer, my slicers did not produce well at all. I bought one Juliet plant and it kept me in tomatoes all summer. I would chop the tomato, onion etc and mix with mayo so i could still have my BLTs/sandwich even though I basically had no larger tomateoes at all. I took cuttings and they root quickly. Repotted one and it needed staked here in the house. Yikes! We have 2-3 months before I can move it outdoors! I don't have the heart to pitch it so I may use it as a donor for cuttings.

[@brentginastravelingadventures]

I do that sometimes if I want to keep a specific plant going. I root suckers into a 1 gallon pot from a parent plant, usually 3 or 4. During the winter months, those suckers will shoot off suckers. From those suckers, I root other suckers till I have 8 or 10 rooted from those first ones to plant out the next season. The parent plant can be terminated after the first ones root. If done well, all the suckers keep trying to put off suckers allowing me to trim the tallest ones and keep over plants below 12" or so. I've got video of the process, but haven't posted it yet.