GWR Throwdown aka Borderline Obsession

[wildcat62]

Interesting thread. I'm a 1st time GWR tomato grower this year. I've got 3 Aunt Ruby's German Queen growing & they are looking good at this point. Anxious to try them when ripe as the only green tomato I've ever ate was fried.

[M.SeanF.]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Sean,
I am glad to see that someone else is growing it. Are you harvesting yet ? Mine has flowers and the plant is very robust.
As you mentioned, it has complex flavor and nice colors both inside and out.
I thing GC has the similar flavor/taste to dark/purple tomatoes. Just different from red beefsteaks.

Gardeneer

My Green Copia plants are flowering, but no fruit set yet, but I don't remember it being very early so not surprised. Because I was moving most of my tomatoes had to wait in 4"pots longer than they should have. The Green Copia and Cherokee Purple plants seemed the most tolerant of the stress and were very quick to bounce back.

Sean

[Hunt-Grow-Cook]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Remy, I have just tried one GWR ; Green Zebra (got the seeds from your shop).
Honestly, it did not impress me in any way. Maybe it was not one of the best around but it was enough to decide not to grow GWR.
But this year I found one (actual tomato at Farmers' Market ) that I liked. So saved seeds and am growing it :
COPIA or Green Copia

I like it because it is not plain GREEN but multi color

Gardeneer

IMO Green Zebra is far different than other GWR tomatoes, hardly even comparable. You are selling yourself short not giving others a try my friend. That same complexity you referenced in Green Copia is found in most other GWR's too. I've got Green Giant, Cherokee Green, Berkley Tie- Dye (tri-color) Esmerelda Golosina, and a few of the GWR dwarfs growing this year.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Hunt-Grow-Cook

IMO Green Zebra is far different than other GWR tomatoes, hardly even comparable. You are selling yourself short not giving others a try my friend. That same complexity you referenced in Green Copia is found in most other GWR's too. I've got Green Giant, Cherokee Green, Berkley Tie- Dye (tri-color) Esmerelda Golosina, and a few of the GWR dwarfs growing this year.

You maybe right.
But I also grow another that can be considere GWR, like Berkley ...(tri color)

It is ANANAS NOIRE: W/ great taste

[carolyn137]

im going to try this in lower case since there are problems with my browser,

many of you are referring to gwripes that are not,which is why I asked quite a bit ago what individuals thought were gwripes.

This was also pointed out in post 48 above.

carolyn

[M.SeanF.]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

im going to try this in lower case since there are problems with my browser,

many of you are referring to gwripes that are not,which is why I asked quite a bit ago what individuals thought were gwripes.

This was also pointed out in post 48 above.

carolyn

Hi Carolyn, am I mistaken in thinking that Green Copia is GWR? I thought the interior streaking was like the pink blush in Aunt Ruby's German Green, just carried to an extreme. Ananas Noir I would call a (Delicious) tricolour and the Berkeley Tie Dyes stripes. Other GWR's I've grown are Evergreen and Green Doctors. This year I bought a GWR plant from a roadside stand labeled GWR Emerald, which I'm guessing is probably Emerald Evergreen.

-Sean

[Cole_Robbie]

While we are complicating mater matters, Cherokee Green seems more like a yellow to me. My only had green streaks on the shoulders; the rest was yellow. The taste was like a yellow with zing. I really liked it a lot. It just seems very different from the other GWR varieties I have tried.

I have several new-to-me ones this year I am looking forward to, including Zebra Rita.

[remy]

Originally Posted by M.SeanF.

My Green Copia plants are flowering, but no fruit set yet, but I don't remember it being very early so not surprised. Because I was moving most of my tomatoes had to wait in 4"pots longer than they should have. The Green Copia and Cherokee Purple plants seemed the most tolerant of the stress and were very quick to bounce back.

Sean

Originally Posted by Hunt-Grow-Cook

IMO Green Zebra is far different than other GWR tomatoes, hardly even comparable. You are selling yourself short not giving others a try my friend. That same complexity you referenced in Green Copia is found in most other GWR's too. I've got Green Giant, Cherokee Green, Berkley Tie- Dye (tri-color) Esmerelda Golosina, and a few of the GWR dwarfs growing this year.

I agree with your response to Sean.

[Deborah]

Cole, time to confess: I lost the Rita seeds when I moved. But thank you, that was nice of you to send them.

[Cole_Robbie]

D'oh! That's ok. I'm making more. Give me about two months.