Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 28, 2012 | #16 | |
Two-faced Drama Queen
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northern lights too!
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"Favorite Holiday" has a couple of double blossoms too so that is exciting. This is my first year growing Northern Lights. I hope I like it, it is supposed to be good for shorter season places. I'm going to save seed from anything that is decent. |
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May 28, 2012 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
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I started 3 batches of plants about a month apart. Not counting cherries, in the first group Fruhe Liebe set fruit first; in the second Fish Lake Oxheart; in the third Amana Pink.
I grew Northern Lights in 2010 and liked it and it was one of, if not the earliest of the bicolor tomatoes that year so it should be fine for you in Conn. This is my first time growing Favorite Holiday- did you like it? It is one of 7 plants from the first group started in Feb. and it's loaded with fruits and flowers! I've picked ripe fruits from 4 out of the 7 so far but none of its fruits are breaking yet. |
May 28, 2012 | #18 |
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My first to set fruit was Otradnyi. (I've sen other spellings so appreciate any input on the spelling). It is a very nice stocky plant, currently setting fruit on its 5th cluster. This is the first year we've grown it so I don't know anything about taste. In the picture it is sitting in front of one of the dwarfs. It kinda looks like a dwarf-but is determinate.
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May 28, 2012 | #19 | |
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I think it means "pleasant"
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Hey Marla, One of my projects this summer is to learn some Russian. I love learning languages. Anyway I think the spelling with the Cyrillic Alphabet is отрадный and I think it means "pleasant" in English. I looked it up and the description says it is resistant to late blight, so that sounds like a plus. I found it here http://crassula.ru/catalogue/tomat_otradnyj Let us know how it tastes, and if it is good save some seed Jen |
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May 28, 2012 | #20 | |
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favorite holiday
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This is my first time trying Favorite Holiday too. It looks very good. My Ukranian friend tells me it is excellent. We'll have to see. Like I said before I am going to bag the blossoms of anything that is good and save seed for the folks here if they want to try some. I save seeds for myself anyway, so I figure it's always nice to share when I can. |
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May 28, 2012 | #21 |
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The first ones were Brown Berry, Cherokee Purple and Rutgers
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May 28, 2012 | #22 |
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I can't believe I missed it, but I've got a cluster of five Blonde Boars, the largest of which is about 1/2 inch across! Theplant is inside a Wall O' Water. That's a 75 day tomato. I didn't expect to see anything for a while! That's only 35 days in the ground, and 85 days since the seed was started. WOW!
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May 28, 2012 | #23 |
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Bloody butcher and then black Krim.
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May 28, 2012 | #24 |
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First to set fruit for me is Amazon Chocolate followed by Big Cheef, Stump of the World and Tarasenko 6.
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May 29, 2012 | #25 | |
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May 30, 2012 | #26 |
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Stupice wins for me this year---at least, it's got blooms! No fruit set here yet, I'm only just done planting out. There are buds about to open on one of the Kimberlys.
Jennifer, I'm not Czech but I love the sound of the name "Stupice" and so it has some special loyalty from me just for that! ;-p (I was born in New York and I'm also growing an early variety called "New Yorker," as it happens.... ) Z |
May 30, 2012 | #27 |
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Black cherry beat out sun gold by a couple of days. First regular size was black and brown boar, beating out Eva Purple ball by 3-4 days. This is my first time with EPB and so far, it is a winner. Very good taste, texture and productivity. The red/pink fruit freaked me out, but, reading up on it, that is normal. Not sure why purple is in the name.
Dewayne mater |
May 30, 2012 | #28 |
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May 30, 2012 | #29 |
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When EPB was named, the color pink was called purple...I think Carolyn said.
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May 30, 2012 | #30 |
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Kath - I suspect that BC beat SG because of environmental differences. It is positioned at a place in the garden that it gets more sunlight per day than the sungolds do. With our longer hours of daylight now, that advantage seems not to matter and sungold is rocking out so many tomatoes as is black cherry - I love it. People seem to like those when I share them too. Thanks for the info on EPB.
Dewayne mater |
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