Early Tomatoes

[recruiterg]

Earl,

What are your favorite Early Varieties in terms of taste?

Pat

[dokutaaguriin]

Ted,
You can't grow wrong with Bloody Butcher for an early.
Jeff

Originally Posted by dokutaaguriin

Ted,
You can't grow wrong with Bloody Butcher for an early.
Jeff

Thanks Jeff! I will put it on my list of early indeterminates. Because of the shorter stature and a garden that only has room for about fifty plants, I think I will limit my early cultivers in 2011 to determinate varieties. They are easier to find space for.

I am compiling a good list of early indeterminates which I will try the following year.

Ted

Anyone have information about which is the real Arbuznyi tomato as described below?

"A discussion on a different gardening website from a couple of years ago describes the fruit as being very similar to Indian Stripe up to 16 oz in size. They show photos of the fruit and plant. The plant is described as and seems to be PL.

On Tatianas site, the fruit is described as 3 to 8 oz and RL. I'm wondering if I order the seed, will I get the large fruited, PL cultivar or the small fruited RL cultivar. I believe Tatianas also shows it to be an 80 day variety instead of an early variety."

Ted

[OneoftheEarls]

Taste 2010, my garden...results do vary on location and season...*surprisingly good

Applause
Arbuznyi
Cold Set
Donskoi
*Early Chatham
Faywort
Gregori's Altai
*Harnas
Kosovo
Limbaugh's Legacy
Noire de Crimmee
*Pearly Pink
*Polar Circle
Stupice
*Tarasenko6
*Victoria
*Vodar
*Zloty Ozarowski

I gave away a loaded Pearly Pink as a novelty...the couple said wow, those were good tomatoes, we had them in a salad...(June-grown inside) so...

Harnas is the best early I grew in 2010. Victoria's when double lobed are the best early sandwich tomato (about 10oz), Polar Circles came later in another garden but were big and meaty. Vodar is very good as a slicer. Tarasenko6 is on the same level as well as Zloty O..but it is orange and not real early. Morden's Yellow is the sleeper...big, yellow and very good.

I would like to trade or have some Morden's...(red) as I am all out.

[kath]

Originally Posted by tedln

Anyone have information about which is the real Arbuznyi tomato as described below?

"A discussion on a different gardening website from a couple of years ago describes the fruit as being very similar to Indian Stripe up to 16 oz in size. They show photos of the fruit and plant. The plant is described as and seems to be PL.

On Tatianas site, the fruit is described as 3 to 8 oz and RL. I'm wondering if I order the seed, will I get the large fruited, PL cultivar or the small fruited RL cultivar. I believe Tatianas also shows it to be an 80 day variety instead of an early variety."

Ted

I'm curious as to the answer to this one also, as my notes from this year showed that the seeds of Arbuznyi that I grew out this year produced plants that were RL, but that had fruits ranging in size from 5-12 oz. and they were on the mid-late side maturity-wise.

[OneoftheEarls]

Kath,

I hope you had a chance to glance at the photos I had of my Arbuznyi.

I'm curious as to the answer to this one also, as my notes from this year showed that the seeds of Arbuznyi that I grew out this year produced plants that were RL, but that had fruits ranging in size from 5-12 oz. and they were on the mid-late side maturity-wise.

This description matches what I had, just wondered if mine looked the same as yours?

Earl

[OneoftheEarls]

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[kath]

Originally Posted by OneoftheEarls

Kath,

I hope you had a chance to glance at the photos I had of my Arbuznyi.



This description matches what I had, just wondered if mine looked the same as yours?

Earl

Hi, Earl,

I don't have photos to compare, but according to my memory, we've got a match!
I do want to correct my post about the time, though, as I was going by memory, not notes, when I spoke of its maturity. In fact, after planting in the 1st week in May, we had fruits to taste by 7/10 and it was a hit in the neighborhood by 7/20! So it was about 74 days maturity for me this year and a plentiful producer- it had "23+ BIG fruits" (compared to everything else at that time) as noted on 7/1.
It will be grown again this year, and one of the neighbors requested it specifically.

Kath

Earl,

That last photo looks so good it makes me hungry. I like tomatoes with a lot of gel. It looks like each tomato makes a lot of seed also. If you haven't mailed my trade seed yet, please include some Arbuznyi if available and pick another off my list.

Ted

[OneoftheEarls]

Haven't mailed yet Ted...I wanted to add in more...gotta use a padded packet now...lol

I'll let you know

[goodwin]

hi Ted - interesting to hear you've been through this way - it's off the beaten path. While the winters are cold (it was 6 degrees just now when I went out to stoke the fire in the greenhouse) the summer nights are warm enough to grow most varieties if you get an early start. Anyway, the seed for Arbuznyni I got from Solana and it's a sure producer early and then lets up a bit in the heat. The plant is compact, RL and the stripes on the fruit are fairly pronounced. They range from 8 to 12 ounces.