The Latest Variety ~ my personal challenge

Mudman · July 14, 2011

I guess this was sparked by so many people searching for early types of tomatoes and I like to go against the grain. I am looking for suggestions for the latest tomato you have grown. Next season I will grow it and see how it goes for me up north. I have seeds for Old German which I have seen many post about saying that it is very late. Any better suggestions? I like a good challenge.

Sherry_AK · July 14, 2011

I'm "up north" and the latest one I've grown is Green Giant. I thought that darned thing would never ripen! I'm sure others have grown much later ones.

kygreg · July 14, 2011

Great Divide is a late one for me.

zipcode · July 14, 2011

Giant belgium. Exxtremely late for me the 2 times I tried. That was mostly because it dropped blossoms like crazy, basically first 3 trusses were empty.

travis · July 14, 2011

Latest tomatoes for me include KBX (85 - 95 days), Yellow Brandywine (90 - 100 days), Earl's Faux (95 - 115 days), and Dixie Golden Giant (got tired of waiting and pulled it out). The variations in days to ripe for each variety were due to variabilities in when I planted and the variation in sunlight and heat of the growing seasons.

tomakers · July 14, 2011

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Originally Posted by travis

Latest tomatoes for me include KBX (85 - 95 days), Yellow Brandywine (90 - 100 days), Earl's Faux (95 - 115 days), and Dixie Golden Giant (got tired of waiting and pulled it out). The variations in days to ripe for each variety were due to variabilities in when I planted and the variation in sunlight and heat of the growing seasons.

I don't know about Dixie Golden Giant, as I have not been able to get one going in 5 years of trying. This year I beheaded the one and only I got to sprout. KB, KBX, YB, and Earl's(which I love dearly) are all very late for me no matter when or where I plant them, regardless of the weather. I still grow Earl's every year and the others frequently. I'm also growing KBX and Stump of the World, which is another late one, this year.
JMO,
Tom

Mudman · July 15, 2011

Dixie Golden Giant sounds like a winner so far. I will wait to hear some more ideas before I decide what to grow. And when I grow it next year I will post pics of my plant (good, bad, or ugly).

remy · July 15, 2011

Kentucky Beefsteak and Aunt Gertie's Gold.
Remy

BigdaddyJ · July 15, 2011

KBX always late but this year came in at 79 DTM. It's usually my latest but worth the wait...;-)

Mudman · July 15, 2011

I am beginning to see a trend with large yellow/orange beefsteaks.

delltraveller · July 15, 2011

I'm working up the courage to try this one myself. The seed packet lists a scary 100 DTM.

De Barao Polosatyi

That's a bicolor paste/cooking tomato from Russia.

If you want a few seeds from the pkt, Mudman, let me know.

Mudman · July 15, 2011

There seems to be a bunch of different De Barao out there. I am growing one now for the first time and it is doing great but still green so I am not sure which one it is.

delltraveller · July 16, 2011

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Originally Posted by Mudman

There seems to be a bunch of different De Barao out there. I am growing one now for the first time and it is doing great but still green so I am not sure which one it is.

Yes, there are. The regular De Barao is a red and the others seem to be variations in color and, in the case of Anna's De Barao, size. From the information on Tania's site, the reds (De Barao, Anna's De Barao, and De Barao Black) seem to have midseason maturity, while the gold and the striped have late season maturity.

July 16, 2011

Like others, the KBX and Yellow Brandywine were late for me. I try to avoid the truly late varieties because the fruit is usually sunburned by the time they ripen. The Brandywine Pink worked extremely well for me by producing large fruit both early, mid season, and late. It also retained most of its foliage through the early hot weather preventing sun scald on the fruit. With all the bad press Brandywine varieties get when planted in the south, I was very surprised at how well and how long it performed.

Black Krim was another variety which produced early and continued setting fruit and producing into the really hot summer months which causes me to consider it an early/mid/late variety. The taste was great, but I had a hard time with it's texture which I first called "mealy" but "buttery" soft describes it better.

Cherokee Purple produced mid to late for me as well. It is a great tasting tomato, but for me the low production out weighs its taste when other varieties produce much more abundantly and taste almost as good as the CP. I was still harvesting CP's as late as other late producers. For me, the term "late" only means it is still producing when all of the negative factors like heat and disease combine to stop all production. Some varieties actually produce late into the fall by resuming blooming and fruiting after the hot summer weather has passed.

HillBilly was still producing into the mid summer, high heat. I had to pull a lot of large green fruit before we left for a two week trip in late June. It was not an early producer. It was loaded with large green fruit when many or most of the other varieties had almost finished production. Great tomato in every way.

Ted

Mudman · July 16, 2011

Sounds like KBX is commonly late for most people. I have never seen sunscald on any of my fruit here. Anyone know why yellows seem to be later?

July 14, 2011	#1
Mudman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 910	The Latest Variety ~ my personal challenge I guess this was sparked by so many people searching for early types of tomatoes and I like to go against the grain. I am looking for suggestions for the latest tomato you have grown. Next season I will grow it and see how it goes for me up north. I have seeds for Old German which I have seen many post about saying that it is very late. Any better suggestions? I like a good challenge. __________________ Mike

July 15, 2011	#7
Mudman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 910	Dixie Golden Giant sounds like a winner so far. I will wait to hear some more ideas before I decide what to grow. And when I grow it next year I will post pics of my plant (good, bad, or ugly). __________________ Mike

July 15, 2011	#8
remy Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Z6 WNY Posts: 2,354	Kentucky Beefsteak and Aunt Gertie's Gold. Remy __________________ "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop

July 15, 2011	#9
BigdaddyJ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zone7 Delaware Posts: 399	KBX always late but this year came in at 79 DTM. It's usually my latest but worth the wait...;-) __________________ Farmer at Heart

July 15, 2011	#10
Mudman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 910	I am beginning to see a trend with large yellow/orange beefsteaks. __________________ Mike

July 14, 2011	#2
Sherry_AK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Alaska Zone 3/4 Posts: 1,857	I'm "up north" and the latest one I've grown is Green Giant. I thought that darned thing would never ripen! I'm sure others have grown much later ones.

July 14, 2011	#3
kygreg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: kentucky Posts: 1,019	Great Divide is a late one for me.

July 14, 2011	#4
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	Giant belgium. Exxtremely late for me the 2 times I tried. That was mostly because it dropped blossoms like crazy, basically first 3 trusses were empty.

July 14, 2011	#5
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Latest tomatoes for me include KBX (85 - 95 days), Yellow Brandywine (90 - 100 days), Earl's Faux (95 - 115 days), and Dixie Golden Giant (got tired of waiting and pulled it out). The variations in days to ripe for each variety were due to variabilities in when I planted and the variation in sunlight and heat of the growing seasons.

July 15, 2011	#11
delltraveller Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Iowa Posts: 481	I'm working up the courage to try this one myself. The seed packet lists a scary 100 DTM. De Barao Polosatyi That's a bicolor paste/cooking tomato from Russia. If you want a few seeds from the pkt, Mudman, let me know.

July 16, 2011	#14
tedln Guest Posts: n/a	Like others, the KBX and Yellow Brandywine were late for me. I try to avoid the truly late varieties because the fruit is usually sunburned by the time they ripen. The Brandywine Pink worked extremely well for me by producing large fruit both early, mid season, and late. It also retained most of its foliage through the early hot weather preventing sun scald on the fruit. With all the bad press Brandywine varieties get when planted in the south, I was very surprised at how well and how long it performed. Black Krim was another variety which produced early and continued setting fruit and producing into the really hot summer months which causes me to consider it an early/mid/late variety. The taste was great, but I had a hard time with it's texture which I first called "mealy" but "buttery" soft describes it better. Cherokee Purple produced mid to late for me as well. It is a great tasting tomato, but for me the low production out weighs its taste when other varieties produce much more abundantly and taste almost as good as the CP. I was still harvesting CP's as late as other late producers. For me, the term "late" only means it is still producing when all of the negative factors like heat and disease combine to stop all production. Some varieties actually produce late into the fall by resuming blooming and fruiting after the hot summer weather has passed. HillBilly was still producing into the mid summer, high heat. I had to pull a lot of large green fruit before we left for a two week trip in late June. It was not an early producer. It was loaded with large green fruit when many or most of the other varieties had almost finished production. Great tomato in every way. Ted Last edited by tedln; July 16, 2011 at 04:10 PM.