6 GIGANTIC Tomatoes With OFF THE CHARTS Production

We all want to grow huge tomatoes, but tomato varieties with big fruits often have even bigger problems. Poor production, ugly fruits prone to cracking, mediocre taste. What's the point of growing big tomatoes if it's all for show and we don't even want to eat them? That's what sets these tomato varieties apart. Sure, the fruits are huge, but each tomato is nearly perfect looking, production is off the charts, and each fruit is delicious. You will actually want to eat these monsters. And on today's video, I share these incredible varieties with you. I have spent the last decade growing over 200 different varieties of tomatoes in my garden, and these are some of the very best. So get ready to revolutionize your garden. The tomato varieties listed in this video will get larger and larger as the video moves on, so stay tuned until the end to see the biggest tomato that I grow in my garden. And for your convenience, I placed links down in the video description to the seeds for each variety if you decide you want to give any of these a try. Huge tomato variety number one is Bobcat. And what's incredible about Bobcat is it's not really marketed as a big beefsteak variety, but the production absolutely blows me away, as does the size and consistency of the fruits. And what's wild about this is it's one of the smallest tomato plants I grow. It's a determinate variety that only gets to be about 30 inches tall or so, yet it loads up with some of the most insane harvests I have ever seen. I showed you this variety this year, earlier in the spring, and last year, and minds were blown. It loaded up so big every single year that even my dad asked me what the variety was and he went out and got seeds. It's that incredible. And here we are entering the first week of July and this baby is still loaded up. I've pulled half the fruits off of it and look at all of those monsters on there. And they are all perfect. So you'd think a plant that small that loads up that heavily on fruits wouldn't have the available energy to make the fruits that large. But here we are. Consistent with most tomatoes, the ones that are growing in ground in my garden are growing even larger than the ones in the containers. So these are going to be a fairer comparison. So I'm going to pluck off a couple of these and don't worry about the little white spots. That's just some surround kaolin clay over spray from spraying my cucumbers earlier in the season. It's not harmful. It's just clay spray. And what's wild is every single one of these is consistently sized. They don't crack. They don't split. They're like clones of each other. They are just picture perfect. Like they're straight out of a magazine. This is honestly one of my favorite tomatoes ever. It just, they're so productive and they're so perfect. It makes me wonder why I even go through the trouble of growing indeterminates when I get such insane production off such small plants. So let's check the weights on them. The first one right here is 7.65 ounces or 217 grams. And the other one is quite a bit larger at 8.3 ounces or 235 grams. So while these may not be the largest tomatoes that I grow, they are a nice large slicing tomato or entry level beefsteak. They're all perfect. They're all consistent half pound fruits. I mean, you can't beat these, especially for how small the plants are. So for that reason, I recommend everybody grow them in their garden. And they're also early. They're one of the first that are going to give you harvests every single spring or summer. Huge fruited tomato number two is Dwarf Emerald Giant. This is the only Dwarf Tomato Project variety that I will be featuring on this video. It's also one of the first that I ever grew. And it just may be my favorite next to Rosella Purple. Except this is a much later season variety. And it's one of the few dwarf tomatoes that truly grows indeterminately. Given enough of a long time, this can grow to be seven or eight feet tall. My Dwarf Emerald Giant that lasted all year, last year until frost, grew to be about eight feet tall. It took a while, but it got there. This Dwarf Tomato Project tomato loads up like no other. And it produces many large fruits that will be in the 12 to 16 ounce range. Yes, some will be smaller because it is a dwarf tomato, but like this one right here, this one, once it actually finishes growing to mature green stage and it ripens, this one I bet you will be close to a pound. You can always rely on this variety to put out a few behemoths, which is absolutely incredible for a Dwarf Tomato Project tomato if you've ever grown them before. So I decided to wait a few days for this large Dwarf Emerald Giant tomato to ripen just to show you how incredible this fruit is. Now, although it is a green tomato, you will see the bottom starts taking on this pinkish hue, these pink striations, and this is consistent that the bottom tends to get this coloring on it, but the top tends to stay mostly green. And you go by feel for ripeness. This is nice and soft. So we have a mostly ripe tomato that you see just popped right off there. So the tops and shoulders are still mostly green and soft. And then you get that gorgeous pink striation on the back. Just an absolutely stunning tomato. So let's weigh this and see what this comes in at. Now admittedly, I did think this tomato would get a little bit larger than this, but considering this is a Dwarf Tomato Project tomato, this is an absolute monster in context. So this is a whopping 10.7 ounces or 301 grams. And that is an absolutely massive tomato for a Dwarf Tomato Project tomato. That can punch up there with the best of the beefsteaks. This is just a gorgeous tomato. Now the thing about this tomato is it is an acid lover's dream. This may be the most acidic of all the tomatoes that I grow. So if you like really strong, bold tomato flavor, this one is absolutely incredible. And since I have a much nicer day than the original day that I filmed, I'm actually going to cut this beauty open right here. You can just see all the juice dripping from it. You have to see this tomato to believe it. And that right there is tomato perfection. It is big. It is meaty. It's almost like a steak. It is a true beefsteak tomato, even though it is a Dwarf Tomato Project selection. So this is pretty, pretty close to being perfectly ripe. So let's take a bite. This is an absolutely incredible tomato. The depth of flavor is just amazing. It is big and bold and high acid. If you like the kind of tomatoes that have a ton of bite to them, this is one for you. It is almost lemony in its taste. It is absolutely incredible. Just amazing. I would say that this is probably one of the best tomatoes you could ever put in a salad. The bite is just amazing. As you can see, I've almost eaten this entire tomato on camera. That is how good it is. This is easily one of the best tomatoes I've ever had or ever grown. If you're enjoying this video made by a real human with a real garden that's actually growing real tomatoes, would you please consider hitting the like button, subscribing to the channel, and leaving a comment. By interacting with the video like that, it goes miles to help spread it around the platform more. With all of the AI garbage being dumped on the platform and YouTube changing their algorithm to favor shorts more over long format content this year, doing those little things really helps creators like me get better visibility. I really appreciate your support. Huge fruited tomato number three is big beef or big beef plus. They're both very similar. Big beef plus is an improvement over the original big beef that was developed a generation ago and it adds additional disease resistances. So I have since moved all of my tomato growing from big beef to big beef plus because of the added disease resistance, but for all intents and purposes, they're pretty much identical fruits. This is when we start getting into true beefsteak territory. These fruits are big and they are consistently big and they are consistently perfect. Look how blemish free, uncracked, and picture perfect these fruits are. Every single fruit looks like it's going to come right out of a magazine. So let's pick both of these. These guys are heavy. Look at these beautiful monsters right there. Are they not just perfect? They are an amazing fruit and the taste of big beef and big beef plus is absolutely delicious. Now generally speaking, I avoid pruning my tomatoes like the plague and I let them sucker as much as possible because when you let your tomato plants put on more suckers, they'll have more leaves, more flower clusters, and they'll bear more fruit. They'll also be better at shading the fruit so they get less sun scald and it stresses out the plants less so they will be less prone to disease. But that being said, when you let your plants bear a lot of individual fruits, the individual fruits will be a little bit smaller because you're taking the energy of the plant and moving it into more fruits, which in theory decreases the size a little bit. So because my plants bear so heavily, the fruits aren't going to be quite as large as somebody that prunes their tomato plant to limit the fruit production, thereby potentially increasing the size. But because of the way I do it, my plants live a lot longer, last longer into the year, and produce so much more fruit overall. So keep all of that in mind. But all of that being said, these are still some pretty dang big tomatoes. So let's weigh the first one, 11.3 ounces or 318 grams, the biggest so far. The second one is 10.7 ounces or 304 grams. And that is what you are going to get overwhelmingly from Big Beef and Big Beef Plus. You are going to get lots of fruits in the 10 to 14 ounce range, which are a very large tomato, with several of them breaking into the one pound or slightly above range. Now remember, these are not fruits that are bred to be giant behemoths. These are fruits that are bred to be super disease resistant, and to resist cracking and splitting. And all of them be very very uniform, so you get a high quality tomato every single time. This isn't just made to be a genetic freak to get large for the sake of being large. These are delicious, consistent, picture perfect, grocery store-esque quality tomatoes in terms of looks, but they are delicious in terms of taste. So for that reason, I highly recommend Big Beef Plus and Big Beef if you want disease resistant tomatoes that will produce all the way until frost, taste delicious, produce consistent crops, and still be very large. Huge fruited tomato number four is Red Snapper. This is where things start really getting big. Red Snapper puts out behemoth tomatoes. In fact, it's the first variety that I'm featuring where some of the tomatoes for me can get a little bit too big. Because when we pick these things, it's like, ugh, I just don't want all this much tomato at once. It can literally be too much. Look at this monster right here. This is when you start to get to freakish-like size. And keep in mind, this is one growing in a container. They can get even larger when growing in ground. Look at that one right here. This one's going to be even bigger when it eventually ripens. Here is a Red Snapper tomato that is growing in ground in one of my raised garden beds. Again, it's approaching that limit where it is literally too large. This thing is bigger than a softball. It's bigger than a grapefruit. This I think is easily going to break a pound once it fully ripens. That is a heavy boy right there. I just picked this beauty off the vine. Look at that perfect tomato, blemish-free, absolutely gorgeous. Red Snapper can and will put out numerous tomatoes approaching or exceeding one pound with ease. And again, you can get them even larger if you were to prune your plants to reduce the overall fruit load, to have less tomatoes, and get them to swell up to be even larger. But again, I strongly recommend you don't do this because they are plenty large enough as is. And it is their incredible production and perfect size and shape that makes these so worth growing. Not to mention the delicious taste. So get as many of these as you can. They're plenty large on their own. Look at them. They're half the size of my head. So let's do the weigh-in. I'll start with the one that I think is the largest, 13.45 ounces or 382 grams. We'll try the other one, 11.4 ounces or 323 grams. And those other tomatoes that I showed you ripening on those vines are probably going to get even larger. But I mean, aren't these large enough? I mean, I'm growing tomatoes here, not cantaloupes. These are plenty fine for my purposes. But that being said, one of the cool things about Red Snapper is it is a semi-determinate variety. So it doesn't quite grow as out of control as a lot of indeterminates. It's a little bit more compact. And boy, is it productive and super disease-resistant. It is a great heat-set-capable variety. So if you live in the South, the Southeast, the Midwest and have very hot summers, the desert Southwest, or anywhere where heat-set is a problem, try Red Snapper. Huge-Fruited Tomato number 5 is Brandy Boy. If you have been a long-time follower of my channel, you know that Brandy Boy is the variety of tomato that I have talked about more than any others. It is my absolute favorite, and I have been growing it since 2015. I think I'm on my 12th year straight, and I can't stop growing it because it is my absolute favorite. Now the one thing about Brandy Boy you need to understand is it's going to get an asterisk next to it because this is not an F1 hybrid that is bred to produce large consistent fruits like all the others I've mostly showed you thus far. This is made to approximate the parent heirloom Brandywine Pink Suddeth. So the goal of this tomato is to approximate the heirloom strain and taste like the heirloom strain as much as possible, and it is a dead ringer, I can't tell the difference. But because it is an F1, it's been hybridized, it is more disease-resistant, it resists cracking, it resists cat-facing and deformities more, and it is also more productive. So it's kind of like the Brandywine Pink Suddeth on steroids. But because it is made to approximate the hybrid, and it hasn't been bred to have perfect fruits, you get a lot more inconsistencies. So while you always get some big behemoth tomatoes that are about a pound or even slightly more off the plant, you also get a lot of smaller ones. There's a lot less consistency there because it is more the heirloom genetics than they focused on perfection. This is the biggest Brandy Boy tomato I've gotten so far. Let's weigh it. 13.25 ounces or 374 grams. This is an absolute beast of a tomato right here. And boy is it good. This tomato right here bops around in my head between four tomatoes total that is my ultimate best-tasting tomato. It's a toss-up between Brandy Boy or Brandywine Pink Suddeth, Chef's Choice Yellow or Brandywine Yellow, Rosella Purple, and Dwarf Emerald Giant. Depending on my mood, one of them is going to be my favorite all-time-tasting tomato. And this one is an absolute beaut, folks. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Please, if you've never grown it, give it a try. It's so good. And that brings me to the largest tomato I grow, the final boss of big tomatoes, huge tomato variety number six, Chef's Choice Yellow. Similar to the last tomato I showed you, Chef's Choice Yellow is a hybridized version of Brandywine Yellow, one of the stingiest, hardest-to-grow tomatoes out there, one that I used to grow for many years in stress over because I love it, but it gives next to no fruit. Well, Chef's Choice Yellow is a hybridized version that makes it more productive and more disease-resistant and a little bit more heat-set capable, so you get a larger crop. But again, the caveat with this is, because it's trying to emulate the heirloom more, it doesn't have really consistent fruits. You're going to get some smaller fruits off of the plants, but the big ones are massive, well over a pound. This puts out my largest tomato pretty much every year, except this one. My Chef's Choice Yellow seed is going on four years old, and I had a lot fail to germinate this year, so I really only have one plant, and we are having a terrible year. It is so hot, with the worst drought that we've had here in generations, and as a result, I don't have a lot of plants to pick from, and this one that I have, it looks pretty terrible. Remember, this is approximating an heirloom, so it just doesn't have the disease resistance that a lot of the really good hybrids have. So unfortunately, I don't have a really large Chef's Choice Yellow to show you this year, so instead, I'm going to cut in footage from other years. As you can see, this was by far my biggest tomato last year, absolute monster. If you want to watch that taste test video, where I taste tested every single tomato in my garden last year, I'll link to that both above and down in the video description. You have to watch that if you want a lot of tomatoes to pick from. So we will weigh this just to be consistent, even though it's not up to par. You're just going to have to trust me, these can get massive. So this is only 7.45 ounces, or 211 grams, but believe me when I tell you, these easily get two to three times the size. Easily over one pound, just look at my other video as proof. But again, the real reason why we grow this tomato is for the taste. The taste is absolutely incredible, and it can get large, and it is a beauty. Even though we don't get a lot of harvest off the plant, every single one of them should be savored. Last year in my taste test, this was the only one I ranked a 10 out of 10. It was the best one on the table, absolutely incredible. You just have to try it. Again, it's a little bit harder to grow than any of the others for the most part in this video, because it highly relies on the heirloom genetics, but even if you don't get a lot of fruits off the plant, every single one of them is worth its weight in gold. And here are all of my tomatoes side by side. If you want to try some of the most delicious, most beautiful, most productive tomatoes that have the potential to get huge, you have to try these varieties. And the best part is, because they are all so different, if you grow these six, you will get an enormous diversity of different tomato flavors. And that right there are six huge fruited tomatoes that will revolutionize your garden. I'm telling you, I have grown over 200 tomatoes in the last decade to try and find the best varieties that could handle the heat, the humidity, pollinate well, have great flavors, and I have stumbled across these as my favorite large fruited tomatoes. And they are absolutely exceptional. If you add them to your garden, you will not be disappointed. So everybody, I sure hope you enjoyed this video and found it helpful. If you did, please make sure to hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, and please ring the notification bell so you're notified when I release more videos like these. I place direct links to the seeds for the varieties I featured down in the video description in case you want to give any of them a try. I also place direct links in the description to the items I use most in my garden for growing tomatoes. For everything else I use in my yard and garden in real life, that's linked in my Amazon storefront in the video description. And while you're down there, check out my website, themillennialgardener.com, for custom home design merch if you want to support my channel. Thank you all so much for watching, and I hope to see all of you again on the next video. Now I have to get out of here before we get this thunderstorm. 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