Newyorkrita said:Many Cherry types grow into big plants
That's worth repeating. The biggest single tomato plant I've ever had was a "black cherry" variety. The plant grew up over a 5 foot cage and I wired another smaller 3 foot cage on top of that. It grew over than, and then it jumped over and grew onto the front porch railing. It grew and filled in 3 sections of the porch railing (about 24 feet x 3 feet of railing area), and it also grew up two of the roof support poles and out onto the porch roof, covering about 100 square feet of the porch roof. That plant was huge and a prolific producer. I still have a few bags of frozen dried tomatoes from that plant from 2012.
Generally, "determinate" varieties grow smaller plants, and do better in containers. "Indeterminate" varieties, even if the tomatoes are small, will outgrow a container fairly quickly.
