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Old October 5, 2012   #16
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I would have to say hands down Kleopatra next up would be Goose Creek Pink this year. Though many did well. By the way they are both still growing here in Mo but not for much longer. As I look out I see probably 30 - 50 ripe Kleopatras out there. Quite a few Goose Creek Pinks.

Somone mentioned Virginia Sweets. Though not as productive it is still going as well. One of the 5 plants left in the last man standing competition. It has 6 big fruit on it now ripe with a few non ripe ones.
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Old October 5, 2012   #17
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My most productive hybrids were Pompeii Roma and Beaver Lodge, which is a red slicer. I am going to try Big Beef for the first time next year to see how it compares.

Regarding heirlooms, most of them have the "five giant tomatoes is all you get" trait, but I think of what I had, Cherokee Purple yielded the highest.
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Old October 5, 2012   #18
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My most productive hybrids were Pompeii Roma and Beaver Lodge, which is a red slicer. I am going to try Big Beef for the first time next year to see how it compares.

Regarding heirlooms, most of them have the "five giant tomatoes is all you get" trait, but I think of what I had, Cherokee Purple yielded the highest.
Some folks determine yield by the # of fruits from one plant and others take the time to weigh all the fruits from one plant and calculate yield that way.

I can say that for most of my large fruited varieties I usually got/get much more than 5 fruits, but what is, is, depending on where someone is growing their tomatoes, and all the other variables that go into growing tomatoes.
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Old October 5, 2012   #19
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My best producer this year was Kentucky Beefsteak. Honorable mention goes to Brandywine Sudduth's and Carbon.
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I would have to say hands down Kleopatra next up would be Goose Creek Pink this year. Though many did well. By the way they are both still growing here in Mo but not for much longer. As I look out I see probably 30 - 50 ripe Kleopatras out there. Quite a few Goose Creek Pinks.

Somone mentioned Virginia Sweets. Though not as productive it is still going as well. One of the 5 plants left in the last man standing competition. It has 6 big fruit on it now ripe with a few non ripe ones.

Another thumbs up for Kleopatra i thought 50 fruit were on it, comes out it was 75+-. With probably 100+ more on it too bad frost is coming. These are a smaller paste but still this plant would give the energiser bunny a run for it's money.
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I can't find information on Kleopatra anywhere. Where did you get your seeds? I'm by KCMO and assume close to your zone and am interested in a productive paste.
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I can't find information on Kleopatra anywhere. Where did you get your seeds? I'm by KCMO and assume close to your zone and am interested in a productive paste.
I got them from a friend in Croatia through a mutual friend in Slovenija. It was a difficult trade. I have not seen them in the US only on foreign sites and with out pics. You can look here and see some in my harvest today. They are sometimes called Cleopatra as well.

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Old October 6, 2012   #24
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and keep cherries out of it

purple calabash along with cher purple(SWC) outproduced all this season, what kicked butt as far as productivity goes...forget about taste here

should have added plum and paste type tomatoes to the "keep out list"
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Old October 6, 2012   #25
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A couple that impressed me, by the number of ripe fruit this year were, Dingwall Scottie and Bulgarian Triumph.
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Old October 6, 2012   #26
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The most productive hybrids for me the last few years have been Big Beef and Jetsetter.

The most productive heirlooms have been Indian Stripe, Cherokee Purple, Spudakee, Neves Azorean Red, Stump of the World and Kosovo.
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Old October 6, 2012   #27
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My most productive this year and in years past have been: Costoluto Genevese and Pantano Romanesco..They keep going all summer into fall till frost. Both medium red heirloom tomatoes. They survive anything so far!!

Hybrid tomato: Jetstar..It keeps going and going despite the heat and disease that effects other tomatoe's. A winner the last three years!!

For a large and new to me variety: Fish Lake Oxheart (if i have it identified right, mixup on a label, but think it is)
I have picked around ten so far, and the plant is still producing in my GH.

I planted over thirty five different varieties of heirlooms in my garden, and only Costoluto and Pantano produced and survived the drought and disease. Terrible year for a garden two years in a row..
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Old October 26, 2012   #28
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Old October 26, 2012   #29
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My most productive plant this year was a Vorlon grafted onto a Maxifort rootstock: 71 fruits for a total weight of just under 39 pounds, plus at least a few more that got tossed before being weighed because fruitworms or other critters got to them first. Not too shabby considering there was a gap in the middle of the season where it was too hot to set any fruit.
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Old October 27, 2012   #30
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For a number of years now, Japanese treifle black did very well for me as well as Cherokee purple (the big compound one in my picture weighed 22 oz). Cuor di bue was a new one for me this year having weird weak stems and droopy foliage but lots of big tomatoes that ripened on the vine for me. The seed came from a friend who brought it back for me as a souveneir from a trip to Lebanon. Strangely, as always., the first non cherry ripe for me in my yard again was Silvery fir tree which I grow in a pot on the deck because I think the finely cut silvery foliage is really quite attractive. They are not the best tasting tomato I grow but up here any fresh grown tomato is a welcome sight and especially in the middle of July. Also a big unknown pink does well for me every year and I will continue to grow it for the nice uniform large tomateos it produces. I have a few pics in an album on my profile. I call it "big mystery" because I don't know what it is. Gonna be a long winter until the next ripe tomato in this garden...

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