Picollo Tomatoes

[evie b]

Has anyone ever grown these? I dried some seeds off and planted them a short time ago . Now they are 6ins tall. Wonder if they will fruit.
Evie b

[Florence Fennel]

You'll have to wait and see Evie, but there's no reason why not. It's not a variety I have ever grown. Good luck with it.

[Flummery]

I grew some - from seeds saved from supermarket tomatoes. This was 2 years ago. They were lovely. Googling told me that they are F1 hybrids so they shouldn't be the same from saved seed. I was not the only person who found them to come true from seeds though. I had a message on my blog from someone who had done the same. Seed was avaiable at something daft like £2 for 5! Bit of a con.

[evie b]

Hello Flummery. Yes mine were from supermarket tomatoes. That sounds very encouraging. They are the best tomatoes that I have ever tasted!!!!!
Evie b

[DavidJP]

Great tasting tomato, my main cherry tomato variety now, still growing on from seed collected from supermarket tomatoes about 3 years ago. There definitely not F1 as they come true and all quite similar. Lovely variety, good taste don't split very prolific. Have grown for three years straight now from same batch of seed, have some with early set fruit in the greenhouse now and even tried grafting a few onto a rootstock and waiting to see if that was worth the hassle.

[Flummery]

Great tasting tomato, my main cherry tomato variety now, still growing on from seed collected from supermarket tomatoes about 3 years ago. There definitely not F1 as they come true and all quite similar. Lovely variety, good taste don't split very prolific. Have grown for three years straight now from same batch of seed, have some with early set fruit in the greenhouse now and even tried grafting a few onto a rootstock and waiting to see if that was worth the hassle.

I've a feeling you might be the person who left me the message! Hello again.

[evie b]

Great tasting tomato, my main cherry tomato variety now, still growing on from seed collected from supermarket tomatoes about 3 years ago. There definitely not F1 as they come true and all quite similar. Lovely variety, good taste don't split very prolific. Have grown for three years straight now from same batch of seed, have some with early set fruit in the greenhouse now and even tried grafting a few onto a rootstock and waiting to see if that was worth the hassle.

Hi David JP Can you tell me if I have to take out the side shoots on my picollo tomatoes?
Thanks Evie b

[Flummery]

Hi David JP Can you tell me if I have to take out the side shoots on my picollo tomatoes?
Thanks Evie b

I did - I don't know how Dave treated his.

[kentvegplot]

Lovely tomatoes - this is my third year of growing them, as others have said they appear to come true (or at least truish!) even though F1.

Side shooted mine (and watch for extra bottom shoots too)....currently growing them in the polytunnel, about 2' tall and in bloom.

[DavidJP]

I'd treat like any other cordon tomato and pinch out the side shoots.

Its seems like there is some confusion about Piccolo tomatoes. In the US they seem to think they are open pollinated and not F1. They seem to come true to me.

Piccolo Tomato Seeds

Hello to Flumm as well

[evie b]

picollo tomatoes

HI David jp. Yes I have taken the side shoots out today. Hope they flower and give me my favourite tomatoes.
Evie b

[zazen999]

I believe that some people have found that some F1s aren't really F1s - they just call them F1s to scare people into not saving from the tomato and buying fresh seed from the suppliers.