Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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#76 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
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I agree that most cherries are sweet with no complexity to the flavor. I really liked Rosella last year and wish I'd grown it again. This year I LOVED Blush, but didn't grow Sungold with which to compare it. Linda |
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#77 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Linda, I grew Sunsugar once before, but it does not come close to SG to me.
I love Blush too, also Green Tiger, really fruity later in the season. They split more than Blush with rain. Together with Maglia Rosa, they are my must -grow trio. |
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#78 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Central Illinois
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Brads Atomic Grape tastes better than Sungold in my opinion!
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Location: glendora ca
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Good to know Marsha. Now im on the fence. I guess if i have an open spot i will give it a try. Its getting harder and harder to whittle down my list every year.
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HTG, I have seeds for WOW, Brads Atomic Grape, and Gargamel. The only way/s I would compare the three (besides tasting good) is that they are an experience growing them. WOW is a cherry tomato that the plant grows as I described. I'm thinking the splitting that Marsha described might have possibly had to do with humidity in Florida? (Not trying to sell you on WOW - nor to detract from what Marsha wrote.)
The only reason I mention Brad's Atomic Grape is from pmcgrady's #78 reply. It's not a cherry tomato, but well worth growing if you have the room. Around 3 oz. Gargamel is in a class all in its own. I've grown some odd tomatoes, but that one starts out light green, turns DEEP purple and is hard as a rock, and eventually matures into a striped looking 3 oz. tomato. A little more acidic than sweet - it tastes good. It's one that you grow where visitors to your garden asks, "What is that?" But not as much as a Litchi Tomato plant. I have very few Litchi seeds. Litchi is the oddest one I've ever grown - it has thorns. Painful ones. Pictures 1 Wow, 2 Brad's Atomic Grape, 3 Gargamel, 4 Litchi. I'm not sure Brad's Atomic Grape or Gargamel are fully stable. They may need a few more generations of growing out. Neither of my plants grew tomatoes that looked like the one's pictured, but were still very close. Last edited by AlittleSalt; November 5, 2017 at 01:40 AM. |
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#81 |
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Location: Ontario
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I grew WOW and Sungold one year and didn't think that WOW could compete with SG.
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#82 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Central Illinois
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I agree with Salt that Atomic Grape isn't fully stable, I grew out 6 plants this season, 5 grew true, 1 plant grew round 5oz tomatoes that were colored/striped the same but didn't taste as good as the grapes.
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#83 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Alabama
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Makes me chuckle to read all the old posts. See if you can convince Swamper to send you a few seed of Swamp Sweet Orange. It is one of very very few tomatoes I've grown that could compete with Sungold for sweetness. The flavor is not "tropical fruit" from the Habrochaites genes. It is an extraordinarily sweet rich tomato flavor.
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a)
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What's new in Sungold replacement these days?
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#86 |
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Madison, OH, zone 6
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I grew SunOrange last year and couldn't tell any difference in taste from Sungold, and they didn't split or crack when it rained. Plus they are slightly bigger. What's not to like !
Dan
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sunol, CA
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Our closest Sungold replacement is Golden CherryWine
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#88 |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zone 6 - CT
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My very first cherry we loved was Galinas but then I had trouble finding seed and switched to Sungold. I switched from Sungold years ago to Sunsugar - grew both one year and stuck with the Sunsugar. It's the splitting that did me in.
I have tried a few other cherries over the years but always grow a Sunsugar - nothing else grows the monster plant and produces it's heart out until hard frost and doesn't crack unless you leave on the plant way too long. My hubby has a sweet tooth so he loves the extra pop of sugar versus the tomato taste for a cherry. We go to the garden gate, enter, snack on a handful as we walk around and harvest other stuff. One plant can keep us in salads and snacking with enough to share with friends. One year we grew 2 Sunsugar and were giving away paper bags of cherries. I'm always up to trying a new cherry just to see how well it does against Sunsugar. |
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#89 |
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: washington
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Sweet orange is what I grow instead,less splitting but just as sweet.
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
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