Heirloom Marriage Big Brandy - Page 6

Hudson_WY · June 7, 2016

Gardeneer - yes - that is my opinion. I do think Brandy Boy has a little better taste also.

I thought maybe Big Brandy may grow better for you than Brandy Boy. I think I would grow Big Brandy (assuming it would grow well in my GH - which it does) if Brandy Boy didn't so out perform Big Brandy for us. There is no reason to grow both - IMO.

Gardeneer · June 7, 2016

Hudson , that is the right thing to do, I think.
I am also trying over a dozen new varieties. I am shooting for to find some that do better than what I have grown in the past. This way I will narrow down my choices for a few in each category.

Gardeneer

tarolli · August 19, 2016

Here in Ohio, Brandy Boys have started a second crop. Big Brandy and Cherokee Carbon have pretty well quit. Genuwine is producing continuously like Big Boy, Costoluto Genovese, Early Girl, and Jaune Flamme. I had a problem and did not fertilize for a month. They may be sensitive to low fertilizer. All tasted great. Whichever one I am currently eating seems to taste best.

Cherokee Carbon tastes like C. Purple, but not as tasty. It produced a cluster of 12 large tomatoes, then took a break. Have not decided about growing it again.

Genuwine inherited Brandywine's terrible habit of uneven ripening. It inherited Costoluto Genovese's bad habit of non-blossom end rot - on the bumps instead of at the blossom end. It is no better tasting than CG, except the fruit are larger. It produced more large tomatoes than I have seen on another plant. I prefer the taste and texture of Big Boy, Brandy Boy, Cherokee Carbon, and Big Brandy. I will probably continue with CG instead of Genuwine.

Big Brandy was a smaller plant, but taste is wonderful. Probably will just grow Brandy Boy in future. Big Brandy has a dwarf as a parent. My one plant is very short-about 5 feet. Same size as Bush Big Boy. Most others, including cherries, are now 7-9 feet.

I grew up anxiously waiting for the acid taste of Big Boy to ripen. None of these beat it in my taste. But others prefer the Cherokee and Brandy hybrids.

Next year, I will have Perfect Flame (Jaune Flamme x Peron) definitely

tarolli · February 1, 2017

Of the three Heritage Marriage that I grew last year, I am only growing Genuwine again. Another avid tomatoholic here in central Ohio and I both dropped Big Brandy, keeping Brandy Boy, of course. She dropped all three Heritage Marriage partly because she is trying to break her tomato addiction by growing only three cultivars, but I am keeping Genuwine. In the fall when taste deteriorates on many cultivars, I felt that Genuwine was better tasting than Costoluto Genovese.

August 19, 2016	#78
tarolli Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Columbus OH Posts: 7	Heritage Marriage update Here in Ohio, Brandy Boys have started a second crop. Big Brandy and Cherokee Carbon have pretty well quit. Genuwine is producing continuously like Big Boy, Costoluto Genovese, Early Girl, and Jaune Flamme. I had a problem and did not fertilize for a month. They may be sensitive to low fertilizer. All tasted great. Whichever one I am currently eating seems to taste best. Cherokee Carbon tastes like C. Purple, but not as tasty. It produced a cluster of 12 large tomatoes, then took a break. Have not decided about growing it again. Genuwine inherited Brandywine's terrible habit of uneven ripening. It inherited Costoluto Genovese's bad habit of non-blossom end rot - on the bumps instead of at the blossom end. It is no better tasting than CG, except the fruit are larger. It produced more large tomatoes than I have seen on another plant. I prefer the taste and texture of Big Boy, Brandy Boy, Cherokee Carbon, and Big Brandy. I will probably continue with CG instead of Genuwine. Big Brandy was a smaller plant, but taste is wonderful. Probably will just grow Brandy Boy in future. Big Brandy has a dwarf as a parent. My one plant is very short-about 5 feet. Same size as Bush Big Boy. Most others, including cherries, are now 7-9 feet. I grew up anxiously waiting for the acid taste of Big Boy to ripen. None of these beat it in my taste. But others prefer the Cherokee and Brandy hybrids. Next year, I will have Perfect Flame (Jaune Flamme x Peron) definitely

June 7, 2016	#76
Hudson_WY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Smoot, Wyoming Posts: 523	Gardeneer - yes - that is my opinion. I do think Brandy Boy has a little better taste also. I thought maybe Big Brandy may grow better for you than Brandy Boy. I think I would grow Big Brandy (assuming it would grow well in my GH - which it does) if Brandy Boy didn't so out perform Big Brandy for us. There is no reason to grow both - IMO.

June 7, 2016	#77
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,919	Hudson , that is the right thing to do, I think. I am also trying over a dozen new varieties. I am shooting for to find some that do better than what I have grown in the past. This way I will narrow down my choices for a few in each category. Gardeneer

February 1, 2017	#79
tarolli Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Columbus OH Posts: 7	Of the three Heritage Marriage that I grew last year, I am only growing Genuwine again. Another avid tomatoholic here in central Ohio and I both dropped Big Brandy, keeping Brandy Boy, of course. She dropped all three Heritage Marriage partly because she is trying to break her tomato addiction by growing only three cultivars, but I am keeping Genuwine. In the fall when taste deteriorates on many cultivars, I felt that Genuwine was better tasting than Costoluto Genovese.