who has grown the bumblebees tigers or blush?

[Fiishergurl]

I have one of each growing and excited to taste them in the near future. I see threads where people mention they are growing them but not much feedback on flavor.

Anybody tasted them? Opinions?

Thanks
Ginny

[heirloomtomaguy]

I too am growing all of them and am impatiently waiting on several lucky tigers that should be ready any day now. I will report on the flavor asap.

[KarenO]

I grew blush last year. Very pretty tomato. It's hard to wait until they are fully ripe but worth it if you do. The flavor is good not quite ripe too, trust me I couldn't wait.
Karen

growing pink, purple and Bosque blue bumblebees this year and looking forward to them all

[Fiishergurl]

Hahaha... we have a hard time letting any new variety ripen. We have been practicallt fighting over the black cherry tomatoes. Not as crazy about sweet million and sunsugar as we are black cherry but it sure makes pretty baskets of tomatoes to share with our friends and neighbors to have so many different types and colors and sizes. Cant wait for the artisans but we planted them late and transplanted them late so will be a while longer for ours. On the bright side the cherokee purple has a couple of big tomatoes that are ripening and I've never tasted those before.

Fun fun.

Ginny

[walt456]

I'm growing the bumblebees this year too and anxiously waiting on the first ripe one.

[travis]

I grew Blush a couple summers ago. It was a very productive and great tasting tomato, but suffered in the heat and humidity, and most of the fruit was split or bursted. It might be better in a milder climate than mine.

This year I am growing Sunrise Bumble Bee, Purple Bumble Bee and Lucky Tiger.

Lucky Tiger plant resembles Blush to a great degree especially the wispy foliage. It remains to be seen what the fruit tastes and performs like.

The Purple Bumble Bee is an aggressive grower, and just now is setting fruit.

The Sunrise Bumble Bee appears to be shorter, stockier, and has a few attributes that I do not see in the Purple Bumble Bee. For example, the Sunrise Bumble Bee has significantly shorter internode spacing, way more side shoot production, and unusual expression of adventitious roots and root nodes running up the main stem. The fruit on some of the Sunrise Bumble Bee plants have pointed tips, while on other plants the blossom ends are smooth and rounded.

Right now I cannot comment on flavor as nothing has ripened, and probably won't for another month.

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by travis

I grew Blush a couple summers ago. It was a very productive and great tasting tomato, but suffered in the heat and humidity, and most of the fruit was split or bursted. It might be better in a milder climate than mine.

This year I am growing Sunrise Bumble Bee, Purple Bumble Bee and Lucky Tiger.

Lucky Tiger plant resembles Blush to a great degree especially the wispy foliage. It remains to be seen what the fruit tastes and performs like.

The Purple Bumble Bee is an aggressive grower, and just now is setting fruit.

The Sunrise Bumble Bee appears to be shorter, stockier, and has a few attributes that I do not see in the Purple Bumble Bee. For example, the Sunrise Bumble Bee has significantly shorter internode spacing, way more side shoot production, and unusual expression of adventitious roots and root nodes running up the main stem. The fruit on some of the Sunrise Bumble Bee plants have pointed tips, while on other plants the blossom ends are smooth and rounded.

Right now I cannot comment on flavor as nothing has ripened, and probably won't for another month.

Isnt lucky Tiger a cross between blush and captain lucky?

Ginny

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by travis

I grew Blush a couple summers ago. It was a very productive and great tasting tomato, but suffered in the heat and humidity, and most of the fruit was split or bursted. It might be better in a milder climate than mine.

This year I am growing Sunrise Bumble Bee, Purple Bumble Bee and Lucky Tiger.

Lucky Tiger plant resembles Blush to a great degree especially the wispy foliage. It remains to be seen what the fruit tastes and performs like.

The Purple Bumble Bee is an aggressive grower, and just now is setting fruit.

The Sunrise Bumble Bee appears to be shorter, stockier, and has a few attributes that I do not see in the Purple Bumble Bee. For example, the Sunrise Bumble Bee has significantly shorter internode spacing, way more side shoot production, and unusual expression of adventitious roots and root nodes running up the main stem. The fruit on some of the Sunrise Bumble Bee plants have pointed tips, while on other plants the blossom ends are smooth and rounded.

Right now I cannot comment on flavor as nothing has ripened, and probably won't for another month.

Just re-read your post. With our heat and humidity along with how late I planted them, I might have to try again in fall cooler weather to try some. I noticed the wispy leaves dont like the heat so well and im in Central Florida zone 9.

Thanks for the info.
Ginny

[travis]

I don't know what Lucky Tiger's pedigree is, but Blush x Capt. Lucky seems a stretch just from observation and the sheer time it would take to develop a stable variety. But maybe. I'll await Fred's comment on the matter.

[Fred Hempel]

Lucky Tiger has Captain Lucky-like coloring, but it isn't the result of a Captain Lucky cross.

The original cross that was eventually selected out to be Lucky Tiger was Blush X a Green Tiger-like unreleased line.

[Fred Hempel]

I would suggest picking Blush before peak "blushing". For many, Blush tastes best when largely yellow, and even with a hint of green. "Early" picking also greatly reduces cracking, etc.

Originally Posted by Fiishergurl

Just re-read your post. With our heat and humidity along with how late I planted them, I might have to try again in fall cooler weather to try some. I noticed the wispy leaves dont like the heat so well and im in Central Florida zone 9.

Thanks for the info.
Ginny

[JamesL]

Ginny,
If you are lovin' black cherry you will love Cherokee P.

[Redbaron]

I grew them last year. Not as big of a producer as most cherry tomatoes, but the taste of all three were absolutely fantastic, and I also had no problems with cracking.

[Fiishergurl]

Fred,

Thank you for the clarification. I love the looks of these and cant wait to try them. Heard lots of good things.

Ginny

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by JamesL

Ginny,
If you are lovin' black cherry you will love Cherokee P.

Yay!! Cant wait to try them. We are building a wire cage to put around the CP plant because the fruit is low enough that the neighborhood possum might try to help himself to the yummy tomatoes and that would make me very angry... lol.

Ginny