Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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They are just Delicious, Amen!!!!!
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Zone 6
Posts: 28
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burpee early treat
burpee early girl burpee super sauce kumato (saved seed some years ago from grocery store) marglobe jubilee big daddy (originally burpee seed but have been growing saved seed for years) opalka ace 55 homestead cherokee purple nyagous main concentration will be on that super sauce. anyone grown it before? i think it is a fairly new variety. 2lbs few seeds, i think i heard them say lol. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Helena, OH 43435
Posts: 14
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I'm trying to get my list down to 40 but I don't see that happening. That's all I usually get into the ground. Meanwhile my SOW list is:
Abe Lincoln 1923 Aker's West Virginia Amish Canner Amos Coli Anna Russian Oxheart Aunt Gertie's Gold Aussie Belmonte Pear sauce Belgian Beauty Big Gig paste Big Mack/Mac's Pride Black Mountain Pink Brandyberry Brandysweet Plum Butler Skinner Butterworth PL pink Chadwick's Cherry/ Camp Joy Chuck's Yellow Clayton Purple Copia Cosmonaut Volvokov Cow's Tit Daniel's Dester pink Diva de Diva Dot's Delight Dr. Lyle Dragon's Eye Cherry Earl of Edgecomb Earl's Faux Early Girl BUSH 54 days 1884 Eckert's Family Oxheart Ernesto Forest Fire Cherry Determinate Gajo de Melon Galina Cherry Gandolf Cherry Georgia Streak Gold Medal Goose Creek Granny Cantrell's Grunge in the Sky Cherry Hahnstown Yellow 3 foot tall Jersey Devil Kapia Red Paste Korean Long Kozula 136 Lambert's General Grant Lopatinskie Martha Logan Norwood's Louisiana Red Oaxacan Jewel Opal's Homestead Orange Russian 117 Oregon Spring Ozark Pink Polish Pruden's Purple Prue Rinaldo Romeo Rose, Amish Rose de Berne San Marzano Redorta Santa Maria Selwyn's Yellow Shuntusky Bogatir Solar Flare Red Star Stump of the World Stupice Sweet Chelsie Sweetie Cherry Taiwan Goddess Texas Star Texhorn's Red and Yellow Thai Pink Egg Tiffin Mennonite Top Sirloin Tropical Sunset Cherry Uncle Steve's Italian Plum Vechnyi Zov Vinson Watts Virginia Sweets Yoder's German Yellow And I did some germination tests last month so there are about 20 varieties...I may just give those seedlings away to a homesteading group of ladies... I am in NW Ohio and we get that really hot/humid spell in July that stops tomato production so about a 3 week delay. SOTW had huge production last fall and most of them were still green in Oct. Overall, I had 4-6 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes in late season and cherries in August off of 40 plants.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southeast Kansas
Posts: 878
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[QUOTE=PaulF;772070]I thought my list was posted somewhere but here goes. There have been a few additions and subtraction since the first list.
2023 was so bad if I didn't show some early enthusiasm I may not even try gardening for a while. So earliest ever list of tomatoes and peppers: Reds: Box Car Willie, Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top, Neve's Azorean Red, Domingo, Tsarskiy Lubmets Pinks: Big Ben #1, Cowlick's Brandywine, Brimmer, Butterbaugh, Dot's Delight, Giant Belgium, Soldaki, Willow's Bulgarian Yellow/Bi-color: Jeanine's Heart, Orange Russian #117 Black: Carbon, Kan-Tex Sweetheart(? is this correct), Maggie Mater. /QUOTE] It's TexKan Sweetheart |
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: virginia
Posts: 742
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What I ended up with. Added and changed a bit. Stalk Borer got my one Amish Gold Slicer which was one of my best performers last year. Replaced with Rebel Yell which I was surprised wasn't root bound.
6 Arkansas Traveler 2 Danko 2 Cherokee Purple 2 Boxcar Willie 2 Captain Lucky 2 Druzba 1 Kellog's Breakfast 2 Margaret Curtain 1 Dester 2 Rebel Yell |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Back in da U.P.
Posts: 1,846
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here is what i have going
cherrys alston everlasting black cherry medovaya kaplya sungold adelia chalks early jewel honey and sugar jds special c-tex karma apricot kotlas lempi chocolate f7 from my anna russian cross maglia rosa marlowe charleston from 16 year old seeds milkas red bulgarian pervaya lyubov petrusha ogorodnik polaris subartic plenty sylvan gaume uncle steve italian plum wladecks, supposed to be a tasty pink from poland still on the side lines is anna russian, took four weeks to sprout redfield cherry, this one had a terminal leaf, but grew a new sprout from a cotyledon. looks weird, but is growing. gave away one too many bulgarskoye chudo, now i have none. keith
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 139
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
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What I ended up with for 2024 ("R" means repeat - I've grown it at least once before):
Pink Aunt Ginny's Purple Bolgarskoe Chudo (R) Crnkovic Yugoslavian Dino's Portuguese Heart (R) Joe's Portuguese Rose Red Belmonte Bulgarian Tri-Fanova Grasa de Calina Italian Heirloom Red Penna Yellow/Orange/Bicolor Dr. Wyche's Yellow Gold Medal Oaxacan Jewel (R) Virginia Sweets Black/Dark Cherokee Purple 1884 Purple Cherry Black Hole Sun Iva's Red Berry Sunchocola Sungold (R) Mike's Sungold growout Pink volunteer cherry growout Red Hybrids Better Boy (R) Big Boy (R) Big Daddy Fourth of July (R) Supersonic (R) Whopper (R) |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Back in da U.P.
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i grew bulgarskoe chudo a few years ago. i remember it being late ripening,
big, and juicy with lots of seed cavities. might have been from one carolyns seed offers. keith
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 139
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Bolgarskoe Chudo was mid-season for me last year, 76 days to maturity. Others last year, for comparison:
Brandy Boy 65 DTM Polish (Elles) 65 DTM Summer Cider 68 DTM Amish Paste 73 DTM Gallego 75 DTM Better Boy 76 DTM Lucky Cross 81 DTM Rebel Yell 81 DTM Pineapple, Italian Sweet, Blue Ridge Mountain & Bulgarian Old Sort were later but I didn't write down the dates. In my garden last year, Bolgarskoe Chudo was large but not huge, nicely shaped, juicy and delicious. Plant was very healthy and productive. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central MN, USDA Zone 3
Posts: 302
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My list is somewhat embarrassing: no real rarities or oddballs. 35 years ago Mama and I moved onto the farm I grew up on. That first year there wasn't time for much of a garden, but after a few years...
I decided that by the time I retired I would have selected perhaps 10 favorites and maintain them. Fat chance. Superscript ¹ means every year. "²" denotes every other year "³" means every 3-5 years to ensure l don't lose it. Beauty King ² Burpee Big Daddy ² Big Zac ³ Bison ³ Black Plum ¹ (best flavor for sauces) Brad Atomic Grape ¹ Buzau 22 ² (unexcelled reliability and yield) #5 Cherry (no note: experimental) Chocolate Cherry ¹ (preferred over black cherry) Cosmonaut Volkov (first time) Efimir ² (one of two favorite early determinates Fantastic ¹ (reliable older hybrid) Faribo Goldheart ¹ Glacier ³ Gold Medal Yellow ³ Golden Treasure ² (best long-keeping sort) Green Zebra ³ Hahms Gelbe yellow micro ² Heshpole ¹ (selected from seeds obtained from Darrel "fusionpower" Jones 20 years ago. Ildi ³ Johnny's 3570 ³ Johnson Dwarf Cherry ¹ Kitayskiy Oksamitovyi ¹ Korolaeva Rynke ² Kotlas ² Long Keeper³ Martin's Super Roma ² (one of my most productive pasters, think determinate, larger, more ready at once Striped Roma) Midnite Sun ² Orange Glacier (not certain if a chance cross or mutation) Orange U Glad ² Orange Russian (Doukhobors)¹ Parika ² Swoon² (l think this is another selection from Darrel Jones cross...slightly fewer tomatoes, larger, and not quite as good low temp blossom retention...but still a very very good tomato) Tiny Tim³ (one of a half-dozen container/microbes) Tomatoberry (daughter asked for transplants, so I might as well try, too) UEOO¹ a thoroughly weird, knobby multiple-fused-ovary type received as a free gift from Delect-O'-Tom's. Originally "Unknown Evil Olive Off type" I contracted the name. It has the best, vibrant, even strong, tart flavor. None make it inside...which is OK because my bride doesn't really like it. Usabec ¹ (in a cold damp year, this one shines. Otherwise, it's just another determinate) Wisconsin 55³ (a reliable favorite; this is a seed replenishment year.) Yeah...I said paring down my list. So I'm weak... Sent from my motorola edge (2022) using Tapatalk
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 139
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What has been your experience with Big Daddy? I'm growing it this year for the first time. Plant looks great so far, pretty similar to the other red indeterminate hybrids we're growing, but maybe a little bushier. |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central MN, USDA Zone 3
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Big Dad is a reliable performer, ripens not long after celebrity for me. This was the last of a fairly old packet, and likely won't be repeated because it isn't radically different than a few others. I purchased it and Brandy Boy off the rack at the same time. BB was a dissapointment a lot like the original Brandywines for me: rather late, and not particularly productive. I would compare it to Celebrity: a good tomato, reliable and way better than store tomatoes...but not quite as much fun as an heirloom. Sent from my motorola edge (2022) using Tapatalk
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
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I'll be watching for Big Daddy's relative tolerance to early blight and septoria, its ability to set fruit in the 90+ summer heat, and its overall productivity compared to the other hybrid reds. I'm guessing it isn't anything all that special because it has been available for quite awhile now and hasn't become very popular/common. Brandy Boy was early/mid-season (65DTM) and super productive for me here, but I wasn't crazy about the taste or texture, so I doubt I'll grow it again. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: virginia
Posts: 742
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My first Kellogg's Breakfast weighed 15.24 ounces And tastes great! I wasn't going to post a sliced photo but it was so meaty. had to. The two trees in the pots are Pecan seedlings the squirrels planted in the garden last fall.
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