lets talk productivity

[TightenUp]

and keep cherries out of it

purple calabash along with cher purple(SWC) outproduced all this season, what kicked butt as far as productivity goes...forget about taste here

[Redbaron]

Strange as it might seem. For me Golden Jubilee out produced everything by at least double. Even the hybrid reds of which I grew a couple. Out produced Rutgers too. Taste wasn't bad for a yellow. I prefer more acidic myself, but most people who like yellows like them due to low acid.

We did have a strange year for tomatoes though. I only grew 1 Golden Jubilee too. So it could have just been a fluke of nature. But I would say 90-95% were of market quality. all medium large and consistent with a couple extra large ones. I remember one day in particular picking 12 off it at once. Once the heat got over 100 though, it shut down. I still have hope there will be a fall crop that beats the frost. They are growing fast.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by TightenUp

and keep cherries out of it

purple calabash along with cher purple(SWC) outproduced all this season, what kicked butt as far as productivity goes...forget about taste here

Are you talking about results only from this past season and I ask b'c the same variety can give me different yields in different seasons depending primarily on the weather.

[tam91]

Costoluto Genovese went crazy for me in a tough year. Indian Striple Potato Leaf did really well also.

[shelleybean]

German Head is one of the most productive tomatoes I've grown. Tasty, too!

[TightenUp]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Are you talking about results only from this past season and I ask b'c the same variety can give me different yields in different seasons depending primarily on the weather.

feel free to mention top producers over the long haul as well as this past season. i only have one year of heirlooms to go by but i know you have a few more

[cornbreadlouie]

These were the best for me this year:

Aunt's Ginnys purple
Bosque blue
muchacha/other hirsutum cross from J&L Gardens
Cuore del Drago pumped out beautiful paste tomatoes on a regular basis
what I think is an f2 of an accidental cross that was supposed to be black krim.
green zebra cherry produced a ton of slightly bigger than a golf ball tomatoes

[TightenUp]

my apologies, i left guernsey island off my list which was a surprising fav and really productive. its also shaping up to be one of my best really late tomatoes. this could be the first and last tomato taken out of my garden

[Blk_Vegan]

In my garden Tarasenko 6 was the most productive this year. A little above average taste.

[edweather]

We got 2 whole crops from my Brandywine Suddeth's this year. First flush early, then another complete crop late. At least 40, 1 pound+ tomatoes total.

[Fusion_power]

Big Beef is one of the most productive varieties around. It has set the record here in the southeast for about 15 years. Several years ago, I got seed from a Big Beef X Eva Purple Ball cross. I grew them out for about 7 generations to the point that they are stable. I sent a pack of the seed to Randy Gardner who used them in a cross with one of his disease tolerant lines. He sent me back a small pack of seed last fall (2011) and I grew them out this year (2012) with 3 plants in my garden. They were the most productive plants I have ever grown. I harvested an average of 85 pounds from each of the three plants under average garden conditions, in other words, without any special feeding or extra nutrients. This compares with a general average of about 8 pounds per plant for the other @450 tomato plants that I grew this year. The sheer pounds of tomatoes was enough to impress me thoroughly.

DarJones

[Sun City Linda]

Ok Dar.....what are they, and where do we get them?

[salix]

Dar, you are teasing us again! How was the taste, texture, size etc. ?

[Father'sDaughter]

My biggest producers this year were:

Russo Sicilian Togeta
Costoluto Genovese
Pink Honey
Sorrento

Honorable mention would have to go to:

Franchi Giant Red Pear
Opalka
Rocky
Virginia Sweets (more for weight than numbers)

And, as an example of how things can change from year to year -- in 2011, I had an overall good year for tomatoes. I had two Sorrento plants, but they only produced about three or four fruit, if I recall. I wasn't going to grow it again, but I decided to toss just one plant in the garden this year to give it another try. That one plant produced 12 pounds of tomatoes.

[ljp]

I don't really measure. However, Ernesto gave me honking big ripe tomatoes (10-14 oz) and large number. Polish Linguisa had good production as well (much improved from last year). Also, Mortgage Lifter and Oxheart Red gave me ripe tomatoes and reasonable production. I got lots of green tomatoes -- most of my plants only gave a few ripe tomatoes.