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Old September 7, 2016   #31
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OK, i need three suggestions for red or pink larger tomatoes for some mater sandwiches. Any suggestions? Was looking a brandywine sudduth
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Old September 8, 2016   #32
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I have what I believe to be Brandywine Sudduth, and it is the best-yielding Brandywine I have tried. I also had a gentleman give me a tomato at market this year that was his own family heirloom. He took the original seeds from a tomato served at a Lincoln festival upstate somewhere, twenty years ago. It looks like a Brandywine. I'm going to try it next year.

My best reds of the year this year were Mat-Su Express, Cosmonaut Volkov, and Bradley, which is technically pink, but looks and tastes red to me.
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Old September 8, 2016   #33
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Cosmonaut Volkov, Chapman, Zamorano for the red, Faworyt, Odoriko, Nicky Crain for the pink

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Faworyt
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Nicky_Crain
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Zamorano
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Chapman
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Cosmonaut_Volkov_Red
http://www.kitazawaseed.com/seed_240-125.html for Odoriko

Cowlick's Brandywine has done really well for me this summer, still setting fruit like a champ.
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Old September 8, 2016   #34
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I can recommend Brandy Boy (F1) . I will re grow it along with BW Sudduth next season.
Have heard rave review on George Detsikas Italian Red too.
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Old September 8, 2016   #35
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Quote:
Originally Posted by midstroke View Post
Im 20 minutes east of st louis.
I'm 50 miles north of St Louis...
Cherry tomatoes that did well for me this year:
Ildi
Barry's Crazy Cherry
Pink Bumblebee
Dancing with Smurf's
Matts Wild Cherry
Chocolate Cherry
Rapunzel
Snow White
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Old September 8, 2016   #36
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Think i will be ordering
Mat su express
Brandy Boy
Sudduth
also adding the orange russian 117.
if anyone knows a site i can purchase these four seeds let me know.

Getting everything prepared now!

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Old September 10, 2016   #37
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Ive grown Esterina F1 for three years now, and it appears to be an exceptionally reliable high producer of superb-tasting tomatoes. It does do better in my high tunnel than outdoors, but then, most tomatoes do. I get my seeds from High Mowing :
http://www.highmowingseeds.com/organ...ry-Tomato.html
Though I see that Territorial and Johnny's are carrying it now, too.


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Old September 18, 2016   #38
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For beefsteaks I highly recommend
Gregori's Altai ( large pink, sweet, yet more complex than just sweet)
Rose de Berne ( baseball size, uniform, deep pink, productive, great taste not too acidic)
Aunt Ginny's Purple ( not really purple but deep pink, old fashioned taste)
Cherokee Purple is a true purple an a perennial winner in taste and production. Complex flavor, neither sweet nor very acidic. Hard to describe but it's in my garden every year.

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