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[FILMNET]

Marianas and stumps and any from Brad at wild bore

[Timbotide]

Originally Posted by FILMNET

Marianas and stumps and any from Brad at wild bore

I have several of Brad's varieties and look forward to trying
A few of them. Which one do you find produces the largest tomatoes?

[FILMNET]

Berkerly Tie Dye some 1.5 lbs, Sweet Canernos Pinks was just like tennis balls , same again this year and i will try Black and Brown Boar, someone sent me Brads Black Heart which i will try also. I see he doesn't sell this now, wonder why?

[Timbotide]

Looks like Pork Chop and Beauty King have the potentialARIANA GRANDE
To grow large as well. Maybe Brad is just out of the BBH.

[PaulF]

Blackestkrim: Yes, that was ONE plant. 2002 was an amazing year for me and it has not been that good before or since. A benchmark year that will probably not be duplicated in my gardens. After four years I was sure I had growing tomatoes figured out. Now ready to start my fourteenth year of OPs, there are more questions than answers. That is why I say every year and each location add to the variability in harvests.

[tomakers]

Originally Posted by darwinslair

3 years ago Black Trifelle produced more than any tomato has before or since for me.

Tom

I had the same experience, however, I didn't care for the tomato.
JMO,
Tom

[Timmah!]

JD's Special C-Tex
Aunt Ginnie's Purple
Pineapple
Druzba
Eva Purple Ball

[tam91]

Originally Posted by FILMNET

Berkerly Tie Dye some 1.5 lbs, Sweet Canernos Pinks was just like tennis balls , same again this year and i will try Black and Brown Boar, someone sent me Brads Black Heart which i will try also. I see he doesn't sell this now, wonder why?

He's redone his website - earlier, Brads Black Heart was listed, and was out of stock. Perhaps he's only showing the varieties that he has seed for currently - that's a shame though, I'd rather go ahead and see the "teaser" for next year.

[newatthiskat]

Pineapple, Italian Tomato tree, Kelloggs Breakfast, Pink Sweet, Brandywine Suddeth, Black and Brown Boar
Kat

[carolyn137]

Yes, I do think this thread should have been in the General Discussion Forum b'c a lot of folks have no questions about starting seeds and wouldn't be reading threads in this Seed Starting Forum.

I could move it but there are so many responses already and maybe folks are seeing some of the information as posted in the most current threads at the top of this first page and then come here to answer as well.

How to start seeds? Yup, that's what this Forum is all about. Most productive varieties? Well, that's determined after the seeds have been started, transplanted, set out and then determining which varieties are the most productive, which actually can change from year to year for the same variety and also can be highly variable as to where grown in a geographic sense as well as how they're grown, what amendments are used and a whole TON, well maybe not a whole TON, of variables.

[recruiterg]

B54, I notice you list NAR as one of your most productive. Is NAR a late variety (ie. later than Brandywines, KBX, etc...)? I live in zone 4...

[shlacm]

Originally Posted by recruiterg

B54, I notice you list NAR as one of your most productive. Is NAR a late variety (ie. later than Brandywines, KBX, etc...)? I live in zone 4...

Actually it's "midseason" 80-85 days. So, what is that? A week or two earlier than Brandywine? About the same as KBX?

[b54red]

Carolyn, maybe I should have started this in the general discussion; but I was trying to determine which varieties of seed to start and the number of each to start from a list of varieties that is too long.
recruiterg, my KBX was 3 weeks behind the NAR in producing ripe fruit so I would call it more of an early mid season variety for me. NAR produced the first ripe fruits in 71 days from the time I set it out in the garden while KBX took 90 days.

[Fusion_power]

Eva Purple Ball
Druzba
Box Car Willie
KBX (or Kellogg's Breakfast)
Burgundy Traveler


I would qualify that in my experience, high production and excellent flavor do NOT go hand in hand. However, for the above 5, only Eva Purple Ball and Burgundy Traveler are somewhat less flavorful.

I could post another 20 varieties that have excellent production. If you want a hybrid, Big Beef will outproduce anything else around here.

DarJones

[b54red]

Dar, for some reason I have had no luck with Box Car Willie and have only tried Arkansas Traveler once and it fell early to fusarium. Agree about Druzba and KBX on flavor but KBX was only an average producer for me but it had some real whoppers. You might want to try a hybrid that has outproduced Big Beef for the last two years and that is Jetsetter. Jetsetter doesn't do as good in the middle of the summer and seems to like the cooler weather of fall and spring. The taste is comparable but it is not as bullet proof as Big Beef so I usually plant it early and late and use Big Beef for my middle of the summer plant out.