First Heirloom to blush is:

[matilda'skid]

I am trying to pick my tomatoes as early as possible without picking too early and affecting flavor. I have read that you can pick them when they blush and not compromise flavor. What I don't know is how much pink I should see. Timmah in your first picture is that what is considered blush? I still see lots of green. Not to question your choice to pick just wanting to know. The tomatoes are safe in my house; outside are grasshoppers and stinkbugs and scorching sun.

[Timmah!]

Usually, I let at least 1/2 the fruit blush; I was just overzealous in my first fruit blushing & wanted to get it in the house before the ants found it.
If it's gonna rain, I go out & pick the ones blushing to prevent them splitting.
You could try picking them at 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 3/4 blush, let them counter ripen & see if you can tell a difference.

[Timmah!]

Druzba. Balanced flavor, mild sweetness.

[matilda'skid]

Thanks Timmah for your answer. I need to take better care of my Druzba.

[Timmah!]

My pleasure. =)

[Timmah!]

JD's Special C-Tex. Deep, rich, juicy, saporous even! My favorite tasting tomato so far.

[KevinCT]

wow those are juicy slices, the second pic looks almost like a watermelon. JD is definitely on my list for next year.

[Timmah!]

Oh yeah, I'm already reserving a row just for JD.

[ddsack]

saporous??? Ha, ha, I guess I've never had occasion to use that word, but I may add it to my tomato vocabulary. Good one!



Adj.1.saporous - full of flavor flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid
tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"

[dice]

Moravsky Div was my first one this year (sorry, no picture,
already eaten; think "Bloody Butcher" for what it looks like
and approximate size; plant is smaller than BB).

Flavor was excellent. (Not just "excellent compared to
mass-produced commercial fare", but better than I remember
the first Stupice, Bloody Butcher, Cowberian, or Kimberly
of the season ever tasting.) Slightly sweet with a definite tang
to it. A little more core in the fruit than a typical Stupice or
Bloody Butcher fruit, but I just wolfed it down anyway, and I
was glad that I did. (No waste.) I wish I had planted 10 of them,
just for the flavor.

[retiree]

Petit Moineau (Little Sparrow) a cherry are ripe and a Barlow Jap is turning as we speak.

Neil (Canada)

[Timmah!]

One tasty tomato.
KBX:

[g8shot1]

Very meaty, looks to be in the 10oz range?

[Timmah!]

That'd be my guess, too; although I haven't weighed any of my tomatoes.
It uniquely caused a tingle that spread from the sides of my tongue to my cheeks, with a zippy, sweet, somewhat rich flavor. There are larger ones, that was just the 2nd to finish & the first to be photographed before I ate it. =)
Pinapple's on-deck.