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#61 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SC Ohio(proctorville)
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Neighbor mentioned above suckers to two stems tied snug to rebar he got free. I would est that he harvests 9-12 fruit per plant. His garden is very very picturesque. I wonder how ten people would rate the taste of the Goliath vs Big Beef? Doubt all ten could even tell the diff if grown in same soil by same method.
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#62 |
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6
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Probably a lot more than 9-12. More like 30-40.
I never grew Goliath, but by opinions around the forum, it sounds like most people would be able to tell the difference. Of course, there's always the question why grow something better to sell when 80% of customers don't care about the difference or can't even see it. Usually to have a better profit per amount of work. So you sell less, more expensive for those few customers that care, so you can do it by yourself, with the family, no need for employees etc. Or just to be able to enter the market as a new seller. |
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#63 |
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SC Ohio(proctorville)
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Nope. Not suckered or suckered to four or five stems maybe. But I have first hand knowledge of his plants. Suckered to two stems the plants get about 5ft tall and produce three or four clusters of mostly 3 tomatoes the size of baseballs or softballs.
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#64 |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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I have a couple of Chefs choice hybrids this year. Hee em for my neighbor but she convinced me to grow a couple. Hope they don't suck.
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#65 |
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Santa Maria California
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#66 |
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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We just grew seven compact determinate Defiant PhR as our commercial hybrid "insurance" tomatoes, thinking that at least they would resist the EB. Have picked 55 surpisingly tasty 3 oz pretty red tomatoes so far. A bit small for my liking, looking for 6-8 oz insurance. Trialing Merced OP next season.
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#67 |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Asia
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#68 |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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#69 |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b
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#70 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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Ah I will be interested to see the results. I keep meaning to grow Cherokee green but never do.
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#71 |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Me too. I love Cherokee Green. All of the Cherokee tomatoes I have tried grow very well. The weakness is that they tend to spiral/radial crack on the top, which is much less of a big deal if you are not trying to sell them.
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#72 |
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I haven't grown a lot of hybrids, but this is how I'd rank the taste (from most favorite to least favorite taste):
* Early Girl F1 (this is my favorite tomato for flavor even including OP varieties) * Park's Whopper F1 * Lemon Boy F1 * Husky Cherry Red F1 * Grape F1 * Bush Goliath F1 * Celebrity F1 * Early Harvest F1 I've tried some probable crosses and F2+ hybrids that were pretty nice. I've never had another tomato variety that tastes quite like Early Girl F1. I think McGee has been the closest, but it's still fairly different. Lemon Boy F1 is probably the next closest in taste. McGee is a favorite, too. Last edited by shule1; May 31, 2017 at 07:24 PM. |
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#73 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: SE PA
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We haven't grown early girl F1 for a couple years now, but that was a staple in the garden when we bought plants at the stores. Sauces always tasted fine, and the plants produced, but the early girls have big seed cavities so I never liked them for eating fresh on BLTs.
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#74 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
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Chef's Choice Orange has quite good flavor and texture.
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#75 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Sweden
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I would like to know which ones of your F1 hybrids where succesful and consistent. I have some varieties that I want to cross, thinking mostly of crossing Matina or Jaune Flammee with Sudduth Brandywine, Prudens Purple, Cherokee Purple and Crnkovic Yugoslavian. Some experience with these? Could also buy some of your seeds if you are interested in selling, even some of the varieties I grow (as I suspect that I have inferior strains or maybe some crossing). |
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