Sun Gold F1

[Labradors2]

I'm with you Marsha. I love the taste of Sungold and haven't found that it cracks easily. It will be a perennial in my garden until I can find and OP that tastes (and smells) as wonderful as Sungold!

Linda

[Redbaron]

I grow Sungold F1 because it is a favorite of many of my regular customers. It isn't my absolute favorite, but it is very very good and quite productive and hardy.

[kath]

I'm with Marsha and Linda- Sungold is the one tomato I'd NEVER be without...it makes my summer.Don't be talked out of trying it.

[snugglekitten]

Its an explosive burst of flavor. Honestly they didn't make me throw away all my other seeds, but to each their own.

Honeslty I think this market could use some competition, and I will still try for flavor in an f1 despite what naysayers say.

[snugglekitten]

A slightly blander, but still good OP alternative is Blondkopfchen. I grew a few of these little fellers for friends and they are addicted already.

[zero244]

Baxter Cherry is a good choice, it is not as sweet as Sungold or Sweet Million. But it produces well and grows vigorously and is OP.
Also you will find few cracked fruit like most cherry varieties.

I'm almost convinced to try Sungold again. It's hard for me to understand how my prior results and other folks results have been so different. One of the photos on this thread shows Sungold tomatoes which are much larger than any I ever grew. I have changed my automated watering pattern this year in my cherry tomato bed and all of my plants (Black Cherry, Sweet Quartz, Isis Candy, and Risentraube) have performed better than in most years past. I am planning to try Jaune Flamme again after giving up on it to see if the changes I made in the cherry tomato bed will influence it to perform better.

Ted

[Tormato]

In my garden, it's the only foolproof tomato I've ever trialed. Every SunGold I ever ate, from the earliest of the season to the latest of the season, hot weather, cold weather, dry, wet, sunny, cloudy, are always superb in flavor. Every other tomato variety I've trialed at one time or another has been sub-par. While I consider SunGold very sweet, it is also a very tangy fruity tasting tomato, not sugary and mild like many others.

Dr. Lve Apple

[Fred Hempel]

I think some of the people who don't like Sungold pick it too late.

One of my observations, though, is that it is another tomato where the flavor changes through the ripening process. Those who like the tangy flavor (including me) are probably picking when it is golden in color, and not deep orange.

[drew51]

Originally Posted by Tormato

In my garden, it's the only foolproof tomato I've ever trialed. Every SunGold I ever ate, from the earliest of the season to the latest of the season, hot weather, cold weather, dry, wet, sunny, cloudy, are always superb in flavor. Every other tomato variety I've trialed at one time or another has been sub-par. While I consider SunGold very sweet, it is also a very tangy fruity tasting tomato, not sugary and mild like many others.

Dr. Lve Apple

I made a dish with green beans and sautéed tomatoes. I used halved Sun Golds, and the tang really came out. They taste tangy cooked!
This recipe

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/green-b...es/detail.aspx

[Labradors2]

I didn't like Sungolds at first when a friend gave them to me. I thought I'd waited long enough for them to ripen, but I wondered what all the fuss was about. I was given a plant and I still didn't care for the taste - until I a ripe tomato fell into my hand. It was delicious! I try to leave them to ripen as long as possible, and eat them when they are a dark orange (too late, as Fred says!) I guess it really is a case of different strokes for different folks.

Linda

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Tormato

In my garden, it's the only foolproof tomato I've ever trialed. Every SunGold I ever ate, from the earliest of the season to the latest of the season, hot weather, cold weather, dry, wet, sunny, cloudy, are always superb in flavor. Every other tomato variety I've trialed at one time or another has been sub-par. While I consider SunGold very sweet, it is also a very tangy fruity tasting tomato, not sugary and mild like many others.

Dr. Lve Apple

Not only foolproof, but practically bulletproof. Great disease tolerance.

[clkeiper]

I grew it this year. I put it in the garden with sunsugar, lemon drop, orange sunshine, sweet olive, Dr. Carolyn's frosted green grape/cherry and another orange unknown plant...I thought it was an orange sunshine, but I have two totally different shapes going on there. Honestly? I can hardly tell the difference between sun sugar and sun gold. I just pick them and put them in a crate and rinse them off, box them up and sell them. I liked them all. The lemon drop splits the worst.

[COMPOSTER]

This is my third year growing SunGold. It is my earliest tomato and in my opinion extremely tasty. The plants produce 100's of fruits, sprawl over everything and I can't imagine not growing it next year. It is one of the joys of my gardening to walk over to the SunGold plant and pop half a dozen in my mouth as I'm harvesting or weeding.

Glenn

[FarmerShawn]

I have to admit that Ambrosia Gold is giving Sungold some solid competition this year. I have a dozen Sungold plants outside this year, just to try to satisfy market demand and leave enough for my needs, but darn, those AGs sure are tasty.