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Old May 28, 2012   #16
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The winners for the first plants to set tomatoes:
Stupice
Pink Honey
Early Wonder
Gardener's Dream

I hear early wonder is on several people's "spitter list"
I havent tried it before so we will see what happens.

Several people don't like Stupice but I do (being Czech makes me biased)

Lots of good reviews on Pink Honey, that one came from MikeInOhio

I don't know anything about gardener's dream, it is a Ukrainian commercial open pollinated sort.
I just noticed yesterday that Northern Lights has set a couple of fruit, and also another big heart variety from the Ukraine named "Favorite Holiday"

"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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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.
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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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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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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

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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.
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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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The first ones were Brown Berry, Cherokee Purple and Rutgers
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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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Bloody butcher and then black Krim.
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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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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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Marla, thanks for posting... your Otradnyi looks great and is a little taller than mine. As you know, Otradnyi was sent to us from Clara (here at T'Ville) and she described it as: "RL, det./dwarf?, red, salad size, early/midseason. It's of Russian origin" I agree and would call it a determinate dwarf. It was one of the first three of mine to set fruit, along with Moravsky Div and Vorlon. I'm anxious to compare it's earliness and flavor to Moravsky Div. Thank you Clara!

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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.... )

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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.

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Black cherry beat out sun gold by a couple of days.
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Wow! You should save seed from that plant!
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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.

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When EPB was named, the color pink was called purple...I think Carolyn said.
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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.

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