Most productive (non-cherry) tomato you have grown?

[OzoneNY]

anyone have experience with Porter?

[biscgolf]

Juliet hands down. Productive under all sorts of conditions.

[Ed of Somis]

This question is really easy for me to answer. This year I have 17 plants (14 varieties)....and Big Beef F1 is by far the most awesome producer of "very good" fruit. It is a tomato machine...just like many others have reported.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Juliet : Is it grape ? But mine were little bit smaller than Roma.
Anyway. I grew it, I think, 5 years ago. I could not keep up with it.
No other tomatoes (even cherries) have been that prolific in my garden.

Gardeneer

I have three Juliet F2 plants growing in cells now. They are almost ready to put in solo cups.

The reason why I am curious enough to grow the F2s is because of the F1 production. We pic tomatoes from our two plants almost every day. Tastes are an individual thing. I personally find them to taste somewhat better than a supermarket tomato.

Seeing the future F generations should prove to be interesting.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by OzoneNY

anyone have experience with Porter?

Porter was developed in Stephenville, Texas back in the 1920s just for you to grow in Frisco, Texas.

It actually does better in drought conditions - don't over-water. OzoneNY, If you would like some Porter seeds, PM me. They prolifically produce here until the first heavy frost/freeze. Taste = My wife says, "Now, that's a real tomato." I transplanted three of them into a raised bed yesterday.

[OzoneNY]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Porter was developed in Stephenville, Texas back in the 1920s just for you to grow in Frisco, Texas.

It actually does better in drought conditions - don't over-water. OzoneNY, If you would like some Porter seeds, PM me. They prolifically produce here until the first heavy frost/freeze. Taste = My wife says, "Now, that's a real tomato." I transplanted three of them into a raised bed yesterday.

Thanks for the seed offer, I already porter seeds Charles Herring strain. I will definitely have a few of those for next spring though I dont think its worth starting from seen at this late in the season. I have done fairly well so I may just start to wrap it up in the next few weeks and begin again on New Years day 2016 with sowing new seeds.

[UFXEFU]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Boring I know, but Celebrity produced so many tomatoes that we got sick of them.

AlittleSalt, I'll have to second that. Celebrity is by far my best producer with nice blemish free fruit.

[OldHondaNut]

Originally Posted by OzoneNY

anyone have experience with Porter?

Yes but I would not class it with the production mentioned in this thread unless you have a field of them growing in a drought.

I have 3 or 4 of them this year and plan to try them oven dried. Hate turning on the oven during the summer though.

They may be small but they are not cherry tomatoes.

[clkeiper]

"NARNIA", Azoychka? are you serious? I grew them a couple of times and the last time I got 3... count them THREE tomatoes on the plant. wow, I am impressed and am glad for you too.

I put in big beef and goliath last year. I put in about 150 of them. for one (and my largest) picking I picked 14 bushels.

[zipcode]

Azoychka is no slouch. It has been very dependable producer in tough conditions. Quite immune to BER, grows even in much smaller pots than reasonable, stands the heat, doesn't drop flowers, it is the first beefsteak to ripe.
It is not however resistant to diseases, like most russian tomatoes (their short but hot and dry summers means they selected fast maturing tomatoes but disease pressure must be quiet low over there). I think it would be a very good tomato for the south, unlike it's description usually suggests.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by OldHondaNut

Yes but I would not class it with the production mentioned in this thread unless you have a field of them growing in a drought.

I have 3 or 4 of them this year and plan to try them oven dried. Hate turning on the oven during the summer though.

They may be small but they are not cherry tomatoes.

I have read that some people call Porter a cherry tomato and some don't. I learned that Porter will grow through Summer and continue to produce up until the first heavy frost/freeze. In late November last year, I pulled over 150 tomatoes off of one Porter plant the day before 23F cold.

Years ago, our son bought my wife an electric Pizza oven. We use it outside on a table as our oven in the Summer. I figure, Why make it hot inside when we're already running the AC to cool it down. Works well for us.

I should add that Porter is a long keeping tomato after pulling it off the vine. The ones I pulled in late November lasted until mid January sitting on our kitchen bar beside this computer.

[NarnianGarden]

I 'm surprised to hear someone's bad raport on Azoychka, it has indeed been a very dependable and early producer in our less-than-ideal climate. Definitely worth recommending to challenging conditions. Sorry that someone had a bad experience with it, we absolutely loved it and my mom expects me to grow a seedling for every year.
Lovely color, fresh taste with some twang!

[OzoneNY]

Originally Posted by OldHondaNut

Yes but I would not class it with the production mentioned in this thread unless you have a field of them growing in a drought.

I have 3 or 4 of them this year and plan to try them oven dried. Hate turning on the oven during the summer though.

They may be small but they are not cherry tomatoes.

I am going to try the Porter and Juliet next year. I am curious to see how well they produce for me compared to my current best producer the San Marzano. I also want to see how good a sauce I can make with Porter and Juliet. I realize it will not be the same as a San Marzano sauce, but that does not mean it wont be good. I gotta try at least.
I made sauce from sweet 100's once about 5 or 6 years ago. It was not a pasta sauce my mother would be proud of, but it made a pizza sauce that to this day my nephew talks about.

[marc_groleau]

Sioux and Rutgers are about tied

[whistech]

AlittleSalt, did you plant any improved Porter tomatoes this year? If so, please tell me how much bigger they are than the regular Porter tomatoes.