The best orange/gold of 2009 - Orlov Yellow

[Tania]

I harvested and tasted most of my yellow and orange tomatoes, and the absolute winner was Orlov Yellow from Geza Korbely 2005 seeds.

I tried to grow it in 2005, but it did not mature before late blight hit my garden, so this was a second attempt to grow it from very few seeds left.

I got three healthiest plants in the garden, potato leaf, with loads of perfectly shaped orange beefsteaks, 12-20 oz range, with outstanding taste and very meaty flesh. The only negative is that it is a late variety, but it still matured way before Orange Strawberry (which I yet to taste) and German Red Strawberry.

The second best (taste-wise) was Stor Gul, surprisingly. It was also beautifully shaped, perfectly round, and had a good shelf life for about a couple of weeks after picking ripe.

Tania

[Tania]

Here are Stor Gul pictures, for comparison.

[bigbubbacain]

It looks wonderful! What are the specs for maturity, disease resistance, productivity?

[geeboss]

Tania

How would Yellow Brandywine Platfoot or KBX compare to the above Orlov Yellow or Stor Gul for taste, production and growth. Thanks for bringing these two great looking maters to our attention. I'm just trying to contrast with what I'm familar with as a rough guide.


George

[Tania]

George,

The taste is comparable or better than Yellow Brandywine Platfoot, but Orlov Yellow is much more productive. I think it is better tasting than KBX, and KBX has not been very productive for me.

Actually, to be honest, I did not grow YB Platfoot this year, so it is not a fair comparison - but when I first tried Orlov my first thought was - "wow, it is like Yellow Brandywine, but earlier and more productive"

bigbubbacain, I am not sure about disease resistance, as we did not have any diseases this summer, but they are certainly very healthy looking plants, even at the end of our season. Maturity is late, but not as late as KBX or Old German.

Tania

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by geeboss

Tania

How would Yellow Brandywine Platfoot or KBX compare to the above Orlov Yellow or Geza Korbely for taste, production and growth. Thanks for bringing these two great looking maters to our attention. I'm just trying to contrast with what I'm familar with as a rough guide.


George

George, I just can't help myself here but above you asked how YB ( Platfoot) or KBX might compare to Orlov Yellow or Geza Korbely for taste, production and taste.

Now that comparison could be done for Orlov Yellow, but really, Geza is a very nice man from Hungary who actually posts his tomato varieties here in the trade Forum and I hate to think of him with respect to how he tastes, what his production is and his growth.

Just one person, Neil Lockhart, lists Orlov Yellow in the 2009 SSE Yearbook, seeds also from Geza, and says indet, PL, good yield of 12-20 oz beefsteaks with excellent taste.

And I know Tania will give you the stats for her Orlov Yellow growout.

[Tomstrees]

for "golds"/orange - I'm still stuck on country orange

[amideutch]

Grew Ludmilla's Yellow Giant and Casey's Pure Yellow and was very impressed with both taste wise. Casey's was the better of the two in production and size. BUT,I also grew KBX again the year and it is a tough act to follow. Ami

[montanamato]

Tania....Have you tried Dina? I received seeds from Andrey several years ago. It is one of my earliest full size tomatoes, and has super production, meaty and faintly sweet...Everybody I gave plants to kept seed and it has spread around our area ...

Jeanne

[geeboss]

Carolyn

Its that gene in us that wants a little meat and tomatoes. I've corrected my mistake and will think well of Mr. Geza for providing such a wonderful tomato and promise not to let that gene hunger for a taste of the man.

George

[Tania]

Originally Posted by amideutch

Grew Ludmilla's Yellow Giant and Casey's Pure Yellow and was very impressed with both taste wise. Casey's was the better of the two in production and size. BUT,I also grew KBX again the year and it is a tough act to follow. Ami

Ami,

I think I will have to grow these in 2010. I think I have seeds for Casey's Pure Yellow, but I yet to find Ludmilla's Giant.

Jeanne,

No, I did not come across Dina yet - you are offering seeds in the Yearbook, aren't you? Sounds like a very good find for short season growers and also for container gardeners! I should get some seeds

George - LOL!

Tania

[Tania]

Originally Posted by Tomstrees

for "golds"/orange - I'm still stuck on country orange

Tom,

You have to tell us more about the Country Orange - I cannot seem to locate any info about it.

Tania

[carolyn137]

Tania, I'm also growing Ludmilla's Yellow Giant this season and if I don't get ripe fruits here at home, and time is fleeing b'c the long term temps look to plunge around Setpember 24th or so, then I think bcday might have seeds b'c she has all the varieties I have, and does almost all of my seed saving for me.

If so, and depending on the amount of seed I'll probably be offering it here in my usual seed offer and possibly listing it in the Yearbook, if there's enough seeds.

To date, Aunt Gertie's Gold and KBX are still my favoite large fruited yellow/gold/orange beefsteaks, and I mean large, not smaller such as Jaune Flammee or Earl of Edgecombe which will always be faves.

[montanamato]

Carolyn....I like Jaune Flammee also...It has been about 12 years since I grew it...I was hoping to try Orange Minsk, but I just now have fruit set, so will try again next year.

Tania....I tried Stor Gul several years ago, but my seeds never germinated. I have plenty of Dina seed if you would like to try it...It is not real assertive, but I like my orange tomatoes to taste different than my reds etc...It is very meaty and productive...

Jeanne

[annecros]

I just can't find anything that compares to Aunt Gertie's Gold. Amazing tomato that seems to appeal to everybody.

But I keep trying. Will be on the lookout for this.