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open-pollinated
Secret Sauce (Short)
Also sold as: Secret Sauce Short, Secret Sauce SSSHORT
Brad Gates compact semi-determinate red paste tomato with 4–6 oz meaty, almost seedless fruit, outstanding production and excellent container suitability.
- Shape
- Oval / ellipsoid
- Fruit type
- Plum / Roma
- Growth habit
- Semi-determinate
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 142 g (113–170 g)
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Light
- Growing notes
- Short, stout semi-determinate plant, around 1 m in later European descriptions. Well suited to large containers, a light stake or cage is useful when heavily loaded.
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