open-pollinated
Alicante
Also sold as: Alicante Tomato, Tomato Alicante
Classic British open-pollinated cordon tomato introduced in 1925, producing reliable heavy trusses of medium red salad/slicing fruit with pleasantly sweet balanced flavour.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Slicer
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 142 g (113–170 g)
- Days to maturity
- 69 days (68–70) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium-high
- Flavour intensity
- Medium-high
- Productivity
- Very high
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Reliable outdoors or under glass in the UK. Train to one main cordon, remove side shoots and stop the leader once the desired number of trusses has set. Large containers work if watering and feeding are consistent. Soil/culture: clay, loam or sand, fertile, moist but well-drained, acid to neutral
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