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'Super Sioux' Tomatoes
 
Sub-Category: Standard
Main-Season
Heirloom
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Main-season, standard heirloom. Indeterminate plants bear 4- to 6-ounce, red fruit.
Days To Maturity: 75-85
Seed Sources: Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

 
Rating Summary
 
Overall: (2.8 Stars)Overall
Taste: (2.5 Stars)Taste
Yield: (3.2 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (3.8 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 01/06/2010 by AZRuss - An intermediate gardener

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Pima, Arizona, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

The heat tolerance isn't worth the tasteless tomatoes that Super Sioux produced in my garden last year. It will not be back. Moreover, I think its heat tolerance is overrated, with many other better tasting varieties performing as well or better. Examples, to name a few: Brandy Boy, Mexico, Boondocks, Burgundy Traveler.
 

Reviewed on 05/19/2009 by Jay Tracy - A novice gardener

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Pima, Arizona, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Super Sioux is great for the heat. While many other varieties either wilt or have their stems turn brown, Super Sioux soaked up the 100 degree+ sun and kept a green stem the whole time with only minimal burn from where the plant touched its pot. Although it grows VERY SLOWLY in cooler temperatures it comes back strong and outperforms many other heat-resistant heirlooms.
 

Reviewed on 05/07/2009 by HiDesertOrganics - An intermediate gardener

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San Bernardino, California, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

I grew this plant in an 18 gallon pot in dappled shade last year. It produced small tasty tomatoes for me throughout the summer. I thought they had an excellent balance of sweet and tangy flavor. Granted the harvest was not large, but I was a noob at the art and science of growing heirlooms, It has earned my deepest respect for producing at all in the face of my inexperience, the hornworm attact, and the midsummer heat.
 

Reviewed on 01/28/2007 by starflakes - An experienced gardener

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Roberts, South Dakota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This is a nice smaller canner type tomatoe which produces well enough and looks nice, but it just lacks any get up and go in the outstanding flavor department. It is better than Fantastic by a mile, but it also is a mile behind the better flavored acidic, sweet and tomatoey types like Big Boy, Rose and Azoykcha.
 

Reviewed on 01/13/2007 by Best Chance - An intermediate gardener

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Oakland, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

These tomatoes taste very good. That's why I like them. Everything else about them is just OK.
 

Reviewed on 02/04/2006 by plainsman - An experienced gardener

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Washington, Nebraska, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Will take dry weather and abuse, but flavor is just lacking.
 




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