A cordon plum tomato suitable for growing in a greenhouse or outdoors. It produces heavy crops of good sized red, plum tomatoes famous for sauces.
1-1.5 metres
0.5-1 metres
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Grow in full sun, keep well watered and feed with a high potassium feed once fruit starts to set. See tomato cultivation. For help with diagnosing tomato problems see our video What's gone wrong with my tomatoes?
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds or sowing seeds indoors for further advice
Remove all side shoots as they appear. Pinch the growing tip when the plant has formed seven trusses under cover or four trusses outdoors
May be susceptible to glasshouse whitefly and tomato moth
May be susceptible to honey fungus (rarely), potato blight, tomato blight, tomato leaf mould, tomato viruses, magnesium deficiency and blossom end rot. See Tomatoes: leaf problems
