"One Sweet Tomato"

ChrisK · December 1, 2011

I picked up a 2 lb box at Sam's tonite for something different than Zimas. Not bad but kind of a standard red cherry IMO.

Anyone saved seed from these and grown out? Any interest?

http://www.sunsetproduce.com/product...e-sweet-tomato

Worth1 · December 1, 2011

I have been tempted to but I haven't for 2 reasons.

1 I have no idea what they really are.
2 I can get seeds that look the same and I know what they really are.

Worth

ChrisK · December 1, 2011

Yep, I'm with you. Too many good known ones out there.

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Originally Posted by Worth1

I have been tempted to but I haven't for 2 reasons.

1 I have no idea what they really are.
2 I can get seeds that look the same and I know what they really are.

Worth

Wi-sunflower · December 2, 2011

I haven't tried that one from Sunset. But Sunset does seem to have good varieties, whatever they are.

I did get an orange grape with a Sunset label and called "Sunbelle Grape" that I saved. The odd thing is that even tho I looked up their web site back then (3 winters ago) and now, the Sunbelle Grape is nowhere to be found on their site. That was the only time we found them too.

The pint for the Sunbelle said "greenhouse grown", I think in Ontario but I'm not positive about that. Those tomatoes actually tasted decent from the store compared with the Aldi orange grape tomatoes I got the year before that tasted rather awful. That one didn't have a company or variety name.

Both varieties taste great when field grown to "ripe" instead of "shipping ripe" and are productive as all get out. Both taste as close to an F-1 Sun Gold as anything else I've grown. Not quite, but better than most of the SG grow-outs. The fact that neither have shown segregating as SG does is a plus.

Carol

December 1, 2011	#1
ChrisK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,448	"One Sweet Tomato" I picked up a 2 lb box at Sam's tonite for something different than Zimas. Not bad but kind of a standard red cherry IMO. Anyone saved seed from these and grown out? Any interest? http://www.sunsetproduce.com/product...e-sweet-tomato

December 1, 2011	#2
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I have been tempted to but I haven't for 2 reasons. 1 I have no idea what they really are. 2 I can get seeds that look the same and I know what they really are. Worth

December 2, 2011	#4
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,591	I haven't tried that one from Sunset. But Sunset does seem to have good varieties, whatever they are. I did get an orange grape with a Sunset label and called "Sunbelle Grape" that I saved. The odd thing is that even tho I looked up their web site back then (3 winters ago) and now, the Sunbelle Grape is nowhere to be found on their site. That was the only time we found them too. The pint for the Sunbelle said "greenhouse grown", I think in Ontario but I'm not positive about that. Those tomatoes actually tasted decent from the store compared with the Aldi orange grape tomatoes I got the year before that tasted rather awful. That one didn't have a company or variety name. Both varieties taste great when field grown to "ripe" instead of "shipping ripe" and are productive as all get out. Both taste as close to an F-1 Sun Gold as anything else I've grown. Not quite, but better than most of the SG grow-outs. The fact that neither have shown segregating as SG does is a plus. Carol