Surrogate Roundup

[amideutch]

The season is winding down and here are some pics.
#1 Brandywine Pink
#2 Carbon
#3 Giant Belgium
#4,5,6 Orange Strawberry
#7 Bulgarian Rosa Riese (Bulgarian Pink Giant) Plant
#8 Picture of plant and Co-worker to show size of plant
#9,10 Bulgarian Rosa Riese Fruit

[Zana]

Great looking haul there, Ami. I'm not familiar with the Bulgarian Rosa Riese - how's the taste, and what size are they normally?

Zana

[Mark0820]

Very nice harvest! I'm impressed with how healthy your plants look this late in the season.

[amideutch]

Zana, They are running 300 to 600 grams. Not many seeds and a good tomato taste with sweet sour overtones. Not many seeds and the plant is a giant. It's late with many lunkers on it waiting to change color. Ami

[lakelady]

Very nice photos! That Bulgarian Rosa Riese sure sounds like a good one that I'd like, I don't really like my tomatoes too sweet. I prefer sweet/tart/acidic all in one

[brog]

BEAUTIFUL-- Grown in Contianer Or ground

[fortyonenorth]

Ami - What are your thoughts on the season for you? Any notable varieties/products/techniques you'd like to share?

[amideutch]

Bill, these are grown in the dirt and the only place I grow maters in the dirt. The raised bed has been in the making for 5 years and every year after I remove the plants and more amendments are added and winter over till the following spring when I plant anew. The last two seasons I've gone "No Till" and only lightly rake in the new amendments. And My crops are getting better every year.

Fortryone, always try new varieties. Of the six I grew 4 were new. Besides using my dip on plantout consisting of MycoGrow, Actinovate and Biota Max and spreading Tomaten Dunger around the plant I added 2 each RTI Organic & Natural Feeder Packs in each plant hole. These packs do a slow release of nutrients directly in the root zone as the plant grows. The packs are rated at 8-4-4.

During the course of the season once a week I would load up a 2 each 10 liter watering cans with Substral Naturen Tomato and Krauter organic liquid fertilizer rated at 3-2-6 and water the plants with. Later when I got fruitset I added GH FloraMato 10-6-18 to the watering can to my weekly watering regimen. This seemed to aid in fruit growth and production. Yes, once in awhile Ami will stray over to the non organic side. This year has been my best harvest yet and the plants have never looked better. For disease control It's been EXEL LG and Azoxystrobin. Normally Actinovate would have been in the mix but during my move it got buried in a box and didn't find it till the other day. Ami

[Tania]

Beautiful pictures, as always!

ami, your Orange Strawberry does not look like it is Orange Strawberry... ?

[amideutch]

Tania, my sentiments exactly. I got this plant from a firm who sells heirloom tomato seeds and seedlings here in Germany. Here is a picture of Orange Strawberry I grew from seed in 2008. Ami

[amideutch]

Tania, here's a thread concerning Orange Strawberry beefsteak grown by Bitwise Gamgee and myself from seed he sent me. Ami

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=5983

[carolyn137]

Ami, after rereading your link above I decided to do a bit more Googling about what's being called German Orange Strawberry. Remembering that Marjorie Morris of IN sent me the original seeds for what she called Orange Strawberry which was from a stray seed in a pack of the variety Pineapple.

First, I think what's happened is that someone somewhere knew that German Red Strawberry is a family heirloom, and that's true and my original seeds for that one also from Marjorie Morris, so just added German to the Orange Strawberry one which is in no way German.

Even more amusing was when I went to Google IMAGES and looked up Orange Strawberry, German Orange Strawberry and German Red Strawberry:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...2-6.3.0.3l12l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...1438l2-3.2l5l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...63l0.2.4.2l8l0


So pick a shape for any of them, pick a color, pick a size and then take your pick b'c you can get almost anything from any of them I suppose depending on a seed source.

I especially liked the striped German Red Strawberry and the one that looked like a piriform with all that ribbing.

[Tania]

Originally Posted by amideutch

Tania, here's a thread concerning Orange Strawberry beefsteak grown by Bitwise Gamgee and myself from seed he sent me. Ami

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=5983

Interesting! I am not sure what to make out of it.. Is it still a cross? Or something changed in its genetic makeup that is responsible for more shape variation??

Thank you Ami for sharing the link!

[Tania]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Ami, after rereading your link above I decided to do a bit more Googling about what's being called German Orange Strawberry. Remembering that Marjorie Morris of IN sent me the original seeds for what she called Orange Strawberry which was from a stray seed in a pack of the variety Pineapple.

First, I think what's happened is that someone somewhere knew that German Red Strawberry is a family heirloom, and that's true and my original seeds for that one also from Marjorie Morris, so just added German to the Orange Strawberry one which is in no way German.

Even more amusing was when I went to Google IMAGES and looked up Orange Strawberry, German Orange Strawberry and German Red Strawberry:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...2-6.3.0.3l12l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...1438l2-3.2l5l0

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...63l0.2.4.2l8l0


So pick a shape for any of them, pick a color, pick a size and then take your pick b'c you can get almost anything from any of them I suppose depending on a seed source.

I especially liked the striped German Red Strawberry and the one that looked like a piriform with all that ribbing.

Sigh. It seems there is a lot of mixup and confusion out there re both the German Red Strawberry and Orange Strawberry tomatoes. I am guessing because of 'similar' names? The bi-colored picture in the Google search is probably a wrong label, I think I have seen this picture before as a different tomato, in any event it looks very familiar to me.