Striped Tomato

[SteveS]

My vote goes for King Pineapple or Burracker's Favoritie. Both are large, purdy & tasty!

Steve

[camochef]

cecil,
I'm not real big on bi-colors, while they look nice, they just don't equal some of the pinks, reds or blacks in taste. I've grown most of them over the years, without being overly impressed but there were two this year that stood out. One was Golden Queen that was supposed to be yellow and pink but mine were almost all pink with just the slightest touch of yellow on some. I've been told that can happen with cooler weather, which was certainly the case this year.
The other was Porkchop. Both were tasty tomatoes. I'll probably grow both again in the future!
Camo

[b54red]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Bingo!

He's in NC and a red and yellow one would definitely mean a red/gold bicolor of which there are maybe 150-200 named ones and no doubt many are the same variety just with a different name.

As I said above, I don't see why he can't buy a few fruits at a Farmers Market, but seeing that the season is over I did name a couple of that kind in my post above that I think are better than others and can name some more if that would help.

Carolyn, I know this is off topic but you seem very knowledgeable about the various varieties out there, is there a list that you can recommend that lists the various tomatoes that are probably the same or nearly so with different names? I think this information would be very helpful when you are trying out new tomato varieties so you don't waste time and valuable garden space on nearly identical tomatoes.

[amideutch]

Here's some pictures from bicolors. Ami

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...oades+Heirloom

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by b54red

Carolyn, I know this is off topic but you seem very knowledgeable about the various varieties out there, is there a list that you can recommend that lists the various tomatoes that are probably the same or nearly so with different names? I think this information would be very helpful when you are trying out new tomato varieties so you don't waste time and valuable garden space on nearly identical tomatoes.

Do you mean the many gold/red bicolors?

[b54red]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Do you mean the many gold/red bicolors?

No I'm thinking of all the OPs where there seem to be many that if not identical are so similar that their differences are of no consequence.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by b54red

No I'm thinking of all the OPs where there seem to be many that if not identical are so similar that their differences are of no consequence.

I would find that hard to do, really.

There are three groups I can think of where the plants and fruits do seem to be very similar, but there are always folks who prefer one over another b'c with their conditions as to weather, amendments used, way of growing tomatoes and taste especially, as well as production they would not see them as being similar. And it also depends on whether a particular variety has been grown once or several times.

The three groups I'm referring to are:

Gold/red bicolors
Brandywine strains
Mortgage Lifter strains, with the exception of the Mullens strain which has pale leaves making it different from the other ML strains.

Best I can do, I think.

[b54red]

Thanks Carlyn.
I was just hoping there would be such a list somewhere to make it easier to select varieties. The descriptions of many varieties are the same so you really don't know what your going to have until 3 months latter. Then you find a couple of mature plants that you can't tell apart unless they are labeled; while others with the same description are totally different.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by b54red

Thanks Carlyn.
I was just hoping there would be such a list somewhere to make it easier to select varieties. The descriptions of many varieties are the same so you really don't know what your going to have until 3 months latter. Then you find a couple of mature plants that you can't tell apart unless they are labeled; while others with the same description are totally different.

That's absolutely true.

Hundreds upon hundreds of large red beefsteak varieties, same with large pinks, same with large so called blacks, same with green when ripes, etc.

The only way to tell if you like a variety is possibly if a lot of folks refer to it, but even then the only reasonable way to make a decision is to grow it yourself with your conditions where you live and how you grow tomatoes and how it performs and tastes for you.

On the bright side if you're relatively young and have many growing years ahead of you there's only about 12,000 OP varieties that are known and described and many of those are available commercially and even more thru listings in the SSE Yearbooks, where there are about 4,000 listed each year.

[igarden]

Originally Posted by camochef

....The other was Porkchop. Both were tasty tomatoes. I'll probably grow both again in the future!
Camo

we grew Pork Chop this year for the first time and really liked it too for taste and visual.

one other we really enjoyed was Red Barred Boar. thin skinned, juicey, a little sweet and a lot of tomato flavor. just delicious!