Types of Tomatoes for Growing Upside Down

All tomato plants can grow upside down, but each type has a different height, harvesting time and time to maturity. It is best to pick a type of tomato that meets your harvest needs and height requirements. Growing tomatoes upside down benefits apartment dwellers, and those who want to keep the plants off the ground and away from pests.

Indeterminate

Indeterminate tomato plants mature between 60 to 75 days after planting in an upside down planter. These plants produce fruit all summer long up until the first frost. Indeterminate tomato plants grow large and may outgrow the container before you can harvest all of the fruit. These plants need large upside down containers hanging to heights of at least 6 feet off the ground. These tomato plants would need a 5-gallon bucket for an upside down container.

Determinate tomato plants take 60 to 75 days to mature to a set height, fruits and die back. The fruit is ready at the same time. These tomato plants don't get very large and are good for upside down container growing. The chance to harvest fruit weekly or monthly until frost is lost. These plants would grow well in upside down containers such as a soda bottle, bag or milk jug.

Varieties of indeterminate tomato plants include Fantastic, which matures in 70 days and has high yields; Better Boy, which matures in 72 days and is resistant to verticillium, fusarium and root-knot nematodes; and Big Girl, which is matures in 78 days and is resistant to VF. Other varieties include Lemon Boy, Golden Boy, Quick Pick and Early Cascade. Dwarf varieties of indeterminate plants include Husky Red Hybrid and Husky Pink Hybrid.

Varieties of determinate tomato plants include Mountain Pride, which matures in 74 days and is resistant to verticillium and fusarium wilts, and Mountain Spring, which matures in 65 days is resistant to VF. Other varieties include Sub Arctic Plenty, Mountain Delight, Floramerica and Mountain Gold. Dwarf varieties include Small fry, Patio Hybrid, Cherry Gold and Red Robin.