Pink Ping Pong

[AlittleSalt]

This is sort of a shout-out for the tomato variety Pink Ping Pong. I have been reading some grow lists, and Pink Ping Pong is on many of them. It is a stand out tomato in my way of looking at tomatoes. The way I judge tomatoes is taste before all else. Here is a link http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Pink_Ping_Pong

There are many links that say they are ping pong ball sized. To me, that means perfectly round cherry tomatoes the size of a ping pong ball. Well, that is not a good size or shape reference. Pictures 12, 13, and 14 in the link above are more like it.

I remember watching them grow in 2015 - thinking, "Okay, someone named a tomato that grows like most cherry tomatoes do here - ping pong ball sized." But it kept growing and changing shape. For us, it was more 2-4 oz. very juicy with a taste to remember that was special. It is worth growing.

We didn't grow them in 2016 because we wanted try some others. They are in a cell growing here in early 2017, and most likely will become a regular. I need to grow them once again to confirm our findings.

One other thing I remember about growing them - 70 DTM is a little premature. Of course, that could have to do with growing conditions. YMMV

[carolyn137]

And you can see from Tania's link that I know all about it and it always performed well for me and when I was selling tomatoes to a local nursery I would include it with other cherries in a quart container. I got seeds directly from Andrew Rahart who lived just north of NYC and also introduced

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Myona

Thinking about it for a minute I think that Andrew's son, named John,who was a dentist in the midwest was the one I got all the ones his father had introduced after his father passed away.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...ht=john+rahart

Carolyn

[Gardeneer]

I looked at the picture in the link.
It looks similar in size to Bloody Butcher and some strains of Stupice. The fruits size is not uniform and can vary by as much as 100%. I am growing a different strain of stupice.

[shelleybean]

My sister-in-law grew them three or four years in a row and always gave some to me. I thought they were pretty tasty.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

I looked at the picture in the link.
It looks similar in size to Bloody Butcher and some strains of Stupice. The fruits size is not uniform and can vary by as much as 100%. I am growing a different strain of stupice.

I looked at the link again

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Pink_Ping_Pong

Having grown Bloody Butcher the fruits are mostly smaller than that one, and which strains of Stupice are you growing?There are four,two for out side growing and two for greenhouse growing, but only one of them is common in the US

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...rom=S#mw-pages

For me it would be a very rare occurence to see every single fruit on a plant be the exact same size, and I bet that's true for others as well.

Carolyn

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

I looked at the link again

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Pink_Ping_Pong

Having grown Bloody Butcher the fruits are mostly smaller than that one, and which strains of Stupice are you growing?There are four,two for out side growing and two for greenhouse growing, but only one of them is common in the US

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...rom=S#mw-pages

For me it would be a very rare occurence to see every single fruit on a plant be the exact same size, and I bet that's true for others as well.

Carolyn

Which strain of Stupice ? I don't know. II bough the tomatoes (shown in the picture that I poted) from farmers market. Having grow it before, I found this strain mostly bigger. But again , not uniform.
I grew Bloody Butcher and Stupice in the same season ( 2013 ?) and there were mostly the same size and shape.