Cold Set Tomato - Anyone have any experience with it?

bower · May 1, 2014

Last year in the cold of early spring, Cold Set came in 9 days later than Stupice. The plant is really very small and suitable for containers - I may try it indoors winter some time. Although it is parthenocarpic, and set fruit in cold weather, the fruit produced normal seed. I was pleasantly surprised that the fruit was tasty. (I am not a big fan of Stupice either, and curious to hear what you think of Bloody Butcher.) Cold Set was very subject to splitting in the greenhouse conditions - maybe 90% of fruit split, could be due to the extreme heat on sunny days, small container had to be watered. The plant also suffered a lot of foliage disease from the beginning, as many of the determinates did. Maybe better attention to heavily feed them might alleviate some of the foliage stress - overall though my impression is that Cold Set was stressed by the chronic cold conditions and was susceptible to foliage disease because of that.

If you haven't tried Alaska I would recommend it for outdoor growing. It was best tasting of the lot, and withstood frosty temperatures outdoors late in the season. Wouldn't set in my greenhouse but loaded up when it was put outside. Very tasty, I liked it better than Kimberley, although K was better than most.

May 1, 2014	#16
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Last year in the cold of early spring, Cold Set came in 9 days later than Stupice. The plant is really very small and suitable for containers - I may try it indoors winter some time. Although it is parthenocarpic, and set fruit in cold weather, the fruit produced normal seed. I was pleasantly surprised that the fruit was tasty. (I am not a big fan of Stupice either, and curious to hear what you think of Bloody Butcher.) Cold Set was very subject to splitting in the greenhouse conditions - maybe 90% of fruit split, could be due to the extreme heat on sunny days, small container had to be watered. The plant also suffered a lot of foliage disease from the beginning, as many of the determinates did. Maybe better attention to heavily feed them might alleviate some of the foliage stress - overall though my impression is that Cold Set was stressed by the chronic cold conditions and was susceptible to foliage disease because of that. If you haven't tried Alaska I would recommend it for outdoor growing. It was best tasting of the lot, and withstood frosty temperatures outdoors late in the season. Wouldn't set in my greenhouse but loaded up when it was put outside. Very tasty, I liked it better than Kimberley, although K was better than most.