Experience with these varieties?

[Baizanator]

Originally Posted by b54red

I have grown many Celebrity plants in the past but after growing Big Beef I never used Celebrity again. Bella Rosa is a good tasting hybrid and the fruit are very large and it is a massive producer. Jetsetter is also better to me but it is not a good tomato for the mid summer heat. Jetsetter does much better as a spring or fall tomato since it ripens very slowly once the intense summer heat arrives here. I really like Ramapo but it is not very tolerant of diseases. A Brandywine hybrid called Brandy Boy is a fantastic tasting tomato producing very large fruit a bit earlier than the heirlooms with the Brandywine name.

I'm planting six Jetsetters and six Sun Golds for fall tomatoes. I've already got them under lights and, when my EarthBoxes come in next week, they'll be going out. I've been hardening them off for the last week.

[Baizanator]

As I continue to narrow down my list for next season (I'd like to have around 12 varieties), I have come up with the following types, based on comments from others, etc. Please discuss yield results on the following varieties:

Amazon Chocolate
Ananas Noire
Arbuznyi
Atkinson
Berkeley Tie-Dye Pink
Black Cherry
Black and Brown Boar
Blue Bayou
Bosque Blue
Brandywine-Sudduth
Cuostralee
Dr. Lyle
Dr. Wyche Yellow
Grandfather Ashlock
Humph
J.D.'s C-Tex Special
Kellogg's Breakfast
Malachite Box
Red Barn
Riesentraube
Sioux
Sun Gold Hybrid
Texas Star
White Tomesol


I'd like to only have 1-2 blacks and I'd like J.D.'s to be one of those. I'm leaning toward Arbuznyi for the other but I'm not sure.

Bolded ones are the way I'm leaning. Please give any experience with any of these.

[jennifer28]

This is my first year growing them. Many tomatoes have been earlier than usual this year due to the warmer than usual temps here in Connecticut. The plants are loaded and we did get about 1/2 pound or so already, but it is hard to tell because the kids just eat them right off the vines.

[lakelady]

I do have the Arbuznyi in my yard, and while none have turned, I can tell you it is a good producer for me so far. I was under the impression it was "fair" but I have quite a lot of nice little tomatoes out there so far.

[Baizanator]

Originally Posted by lakelady

I do have the Arbuznyi in my yard, and while none have turned, I can tell you it is a good producer for me so far. I was under the impression it was "fair" but I have quite a lot of nice little tomatoes out there so far.

Yeah, I am personally going to have 12 plants at my apartment this year due to restrictions on EarthBox space. I'll have about 60 plants at my dads, grandparent's etc but, given my space restrictions, yield is very important. I'm going to have one blue and Arbuznyi. Those will be the only two where I am a bit forgiving on yield.

[Baizanator]

So... I've added Break O'Day to the list. Based on reviews and experiences it seems to be a heavy producer of good quality fruit.

[lakelady]

I have Break O Day and Mule Team in the garden, and both are producing nice clusters of fruit for me, just nothing red yet so I cannot tell you how they taste. PM me if you want seeds of either one.

[luke]

A few comments on some of my experiences, but you should note that some of these are from last year, when temps hit 100 degrees very early. Those are noted as year 1, and this year noted as year 2, when temps topped out in the low 90's and we had tolerable rain.

I'm located in south Mississippi about 70 miles north of the coast. I am also in an ongoing process of ammending heavy clay soils, and am losing sunlight every year to canopy spread from pine trees (as indicated by my limited production, so don't let production numbers influence you too much.).

I have been sharing heirlooms with family and friends, and the most resilient in the heat have been: for size - Magnum, Church and Mule Team, for production - Brown and Black Boar, Paul Robeson and Aussie. My Mother just picked a 2 pound, 6 ounce Church today. My comments re: production are compared to Better Boys. For flavor, I prefer Mule Team, Paul Robeson, Omar's Lebaneese

Ananas Noire -- vitually no production (yr 1)
Azoychka
Berkeley Tie-Dye -- very few fruits (yr 2)
Big Rainbow (I have seed left from last year but this one did terrible for me with no fruits)
Big Zac
Black and Brown Boar --good production of golf ball size fruits (yr 2)
Black Truffle Hybrid (From Burpee)
Bull's Heart
Ceylon
Celebrity (Main Crop)
Cherokee Purple -- set 1 plant out late, got 1 fruit (yr 2)
Costoluto Genovese -- 3-4 fruits on 1 plant (yr 2)
German Giant
Great White
Green Giant
Heinz 1439 VFA (Main Crop)
Hillbilly
Jetsetter
Kosovo
Mexico -- fair production (yr 1 and 2)
Mr. Stripey
Mule Team -- prolific (yr 1 and 2)
Neves Azorean
Omar's Lebanese -- 3 - 4 fruits on 2 plants (yr 1 and 2)
P20 Blue (Purely Novelty)
Paul Robeson -- good producer (yr 1 and 2)
Persimmon
Porterhouse Hybrid
Porter's Pride
Purple Calabash -- no production (yr 1)
Riesentraube
Royesta
Sandul Moldovan
Sun Gold
Solar Fire
Thessaloniki
Watermelon Beefsteak
Zapotec

[luke]

I grew the Berkely Tie Dye, not the pink. Was expecting an acidic tomato, and found that not to be the case. Brown and Black Boar outproduced it far and away. In fact, I had the Brown and Black Boars in the same row as my Better Boys, and I probably had more B & B Boars than Better Boys.

If you have any inclination to grow the variagated varieties from Wild Boar Farms, go ahead and do it. I enjoyed showing them off to friends, and they were a great addition to salsa for color alone.