Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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November 3, 2020 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,250
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Did anyone grow the new Mountaineer tomatoes from WV?
I see that Southern Exposure has them listed under red tomatoes as Mountaineer Delight and Mountaineer Pride. I'd like to hear first hand reports on the effectiveness of the Septoria resistance.
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November 11, 2020 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,124
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You certainly caught my attention with the "S" word! I certainly will try one of those varieties. But my experience with "Septoria resistance" to date has been poor. (The best has been Stellar F1.) Hopefully one of these days I'll find one that works here. Thanks for posting about these!
-GG Last edited by Greatgardens; November 11, 2020 at 06:33 AM. |
November 16, 2020 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: GA(7b)
Posts: 10
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Since no one else has replied, I will share my experience this year. Not a great one and I hope there's others who had better luck who can share. I had one plant of Mountaineer Delight. In early fruiting, it stunted and gnarled. I suspect due to either wet soils from the heavy rainfall or straw mulch herbicide residue. It was the only variety I had that did that this year. To its credit, it did survive and bounce back. Ultimately, I found nothing remarkable in the fruit and do not plan to grow again. With regards to leaf diseases, it did avoid those longer than some other varieties, but ultimately ended up getting leaf diseases. Again, we had a very wet year here in Georgia.
Again, not trying to bash the variety since it was only one plant in difficult growing conditions. Sounded like a promising project at WVU. So I hope my experience was an outlier. |
November 16, 2020 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Czech republic
Posts: 2,534
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Are they OP varieties or hybrids like Mountain magic?
Vladimír |
November 16, 2020 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Turkey
Posts: 58
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They are OP. I planted both but in that garden I had no disease issues. I tried several other disease resistant varieties like manalucie and tropic. Manalucie had very small fruits. Before I had a chance to taste them I sold the house and the garden was no longer mine.
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