shelf life of black tomatoes

[MrsJustice]

Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

I grew black brandywine last year and loved the flavor. The fruits were 10 plus ounces and had a nice complex flavor that you would expect from a good black tomato. The two plants i had produced true to description and were pretty prolific for a larger variety. I will definitely grow it again.

I will grow them each year too. It's just as creamy like a regular Brandywine, with a Black Tomatoes flavor.

Which Black Tomato you have grown has the longest shelf life?

[heirloomtomaguy]

Originally Posted by MrsJustice

I will grow them each year too. It's just as creamy like a regular Brandywine, with a Black Tomatoes flavor.

Which Black Tomato you have grown has the longest shelf life?

Black prince and black sea man have kept really well for me. Not exactly big beafsteaks but definitely worth a try.

[MrsJustice]

Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

Black prince and black sea man have kept really well for me. Not exactly big beafsteaks but definitely worth a try.

I grew the Black Sea man for years and just released them for sell last year because I finally got the true product and it too was a plant no more than 6 feet. So I had the true seeds all along. I just was not expecting the plant to be only up to 6 fleet, with most of the plants being around 4-5 feet years ago. I did like them a lot. The Black Sea Man Plants each year was shorter than most heirloom tomatoes Plants which are good for a framer or gardeners who do not want to deal with staking a 12 foot plant as the growing season progresses. The Black Prince will need to be grown by me one more year before I can evaluate them, but I will look out this year for the long shelf life too in both.

What do you-all think about the 2 Types of Indian stripes Black Tomatoes?

With Mrs Carolyn Indian stripe I tried last year, I was finally able to see the stripe in the Black tomato fruit and was able to see the difference growing habits in both regular leaf and potato leaf Indian stripe Plants.
If you ask me: which one of the Indian Stripes I grow again? It it will be a complex answer. I would suggest the Potato Leaf for uniformity and unique shape, great tasting growing in heights’ of 8 or more feet, wide plant to whole much fruit, with the strip showing deep and clearly. The regular leaf growing up to 12-16 feet with barely seeing the stripe, until you look very closely with the tomato in the sun, but just a little bigger tomatoes, but not as uniformed as “Ms Carolyn Indian Stripes”. They both had the same taste, with a normal shelf live.
So my conclusion: It would be based on Beauty and Identification= the unique shape and the stripe that was very clearly deep in the Potato Leafs Indian Stripe " the one's that Ms Carolynn gave to grew out late year. But they both taste the same.

How or Why: is their 2 types of Leafs of the Indian Stripe. Which one was first?

Farmer Joyce Beggs

[taboule]

Thanks for all the feedback on the black BW.

[Tomato Beth]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Purple Bumble Bee had a surprisingly long shelf life; customers said the same thing. They would be fine for at least a week on a kitchen counter. Maybe being cherry-sized makes a difference.

Agreed on that--I grew these last summer and they kept quite awhile. They have a tougher skin than the other cherries I grew, too--maybe that helps as well.

[heirloomtomaguy]

Originally Posted by MrsJustice

I grew the Black Sea man for years and just released them for sell last year because I finally got the true product and it too was a plant no more than 6 feet. So I had the true seeds all along. I just was not expecting the plant to be only up to 6 fleet, with most of the plants being around 4-5 feet years ago. I did like them a lot. The Black Sea Man Plants each year was shorter than most heirloom tomatoes Plants which are good for a framer or gardeners who do not want to deal with staking a 12 foot plant as the growing season progresses. The Black Prince will need to be grown by me one more year before I can evaluate them, but I will look out this year for the long shelf life too in both.

What do you-all think about the 2 Types of Indian stripes Black Tomatoes?

With Mrs Carolyn Indian stripe I tried last year, I was finally able to see the stripe in the Black tomato fruit and was able to see the difference growing habits in both regular leaf and potato leaf Indian stripe Plants.
If you ask me: which one of the Indian Stripes I grow again? It it will be a complex answer. I would suggest the Potato Leaf for uniformity and unique shape, great tasting growing in heights’ of 8 or more feet, wide plant to whole much fruit, with the strip showing deep and clearly. The regular leaf growing up to 12-16 feet with barely seeing the stripe, until you look very closely with the tomato in the sun, but just a little bigger tomatoes, but not as uniformed as “Ms Carolyn Indian Stripes”. They both had the same taste, with a normal shelf live.
So my conclusion: It would be based on Beauty and Identification= the unique shape and the stripe that was very clearly deep in the Potato Leafs Indian Stripe " the one's that Ms Carolynn gave to grew out late year. But they both taste the same.

How or Why: is their 2 types of Leafs of the Indian Stripe. Which one was first?

Farmer Joyce Beggs

I have yet to grow either indian stripes however another tomatovillian suggested Indian stripe and gave me some seeds so i suppose it will make it into rotation this spring.