Can we talk TOMATOES............PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

heirloomtomaguy · December 10, 2014

Lets get back to talking tomatoes. What variety are you most excited about for 2015. New tomato varieties you heard about. Anything PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! I just ordered some seeds from Tomato Grower Supply. They have a new variety called Rapunzel. It is a hybrid that is said to grow trusses 40 cherries long hence the name Rapunzel. The pics look amazing and for just under 4 bucks a pack of 30 seeds they seem to be a great deal for and F1 seed. Im also excited to grow out some F2, F3, and F4 varieties i am working on of my own varieties and others. So what is it that you just cant wait for?

NarnianGarden · December 10, 2014

There are several.. thanks to all the kind people who sent me those new varieties.

I'm curious about Humph (a green one), Black Seaman (germination failure in 2014),
Purple Bumble Bee, Orange Banana (anything that's a paste tomato and orange is a must), Orange Strawberry (I love yellow/orange tomatoes), Gold Nugget and many others.

Hope to re-grow some that I tasted 2014 - Black Cherry will go to a better location and hopefully bear fruit a bit earlier than in September.

It's exciting... but I really try to keep away from any gardening stuff before March!

greenthumbomaha · December 10, 2014

I was just noticing there are more than the usual number of new introductions for all types of vegetables on the various seed websites. Still checking them out. Looking for some different peppers and herbs this year.

-Lisa

Cole_Robbie · December 10, 2014

Indigo Gold Berries & Indigo Cherry Drops from TGS look very promising to me. I'm going to order the Artisan variety pack again because I lost the two yellow ones to a late frost. They were great sellers for me.

I'm also looking forward to all the the OP cherry tomatoes I have coming to me through swaps. I am going to offer two different cherry mixes next year, one just the Artisans and another of heirlooms.

Marbonne is new from Johnny's, and I want to try it.

I saved seeds from two mystery varieties, a red and a bicolor, that are grown by an Amish family in Kentucky, not too far from me. I am looking forward to seeing what I get from them.

I just figured out that I'm sitting on a soil gold mine - a field that has had nothing but grass-fed cows for the past 80 years. The black dirt out there is like magic. It makes a tremendous improvement in flavor. I am starting to make an aerated compost tea out of that dirt, and early results are promising. I can't wait to try it on my early spring greenhouse plants.

Salsacharley · December 10, 2014

New ones (for me) that I'm excited about are from J & L Gardens: Baby blue, Bedouin, Black Shadow, Blue Ambrosia, Blushing Beauty, Cafe Bule, Danube, Esmeralda Golosina, Favorie De Bretagne, Finnish Yellow, Golden Tiger, Lee's Sweet, Pink Perfection, Red Ruffles, Rose Dawn, Rancho Solito, Painted Pink, Sleeping Lady x Orange Pixie, Vincent's White, Snow Cherry and Sweet White and Wild Tiger.

From Wild Boar: Amethyst Jewel, Barry's Crazy Cherry, Blue Chocolate, Blue Gold, Candy Sweet Icicle, Cascade Lava, Dark Galaxy, Dragon's Eye, Janet's Jacinthe Jewel, Napa Giant, Norwood Meiners, Streak Lightning, and Yellow Radiance.

From Tom Wagner: Chef Hubert, Blue Green Zebra, Wooly Green Zebra, Stripes of Yore, Pastel Sleeves, Siberian Tiger, Prince of Spades, Primary Colors.

Others: Dino Eggs, Zebra Heart, Zebra Rita, Ozark Sunrise, MARNAR, George Detsikas Italian Red, PaddyMc"s Steelhead and Pink Furry Boar x Ananas Noir x Bosque Green Cherry.

Hot Dawgs!!! It's gonna be fun!!

Charley

JamesL · December 10, 2014

2015 tomatoes are a looooong way off for us East Coasters. It snowed here today....
I haven't put my list together yet for next season.
Did get to eat some fresh Stump of the World's this December. Volunteer plant came up late and picked the green ones right before frost. Not as good as during the season, but pretty darn good!
Rapunzel - That sounds interesting! I believe I am going to plant Rose Quartz multiflora next season.
Looking forward to Margaret Curtain as a new variety as well.

NG - Orange Banana- an excellent tomato. It will be in my garden next season again. Decent fresh eating, and really adds a dimension to sauce, in color and flavour.

I am always excited about some of the usual suspects - Cherokee Purple, Stump of the World, Black Cherry, Goose Creek.

Sun City Linda · December 10, 2014

Looking forward to Joes Pink Oxheart, Pink and Purple Bumblebees, and I think I will grow Santa Clara Canner again this year in addition to a number of old and new favs.

gssgarden · December 10, 2014

New ones that I'm trying..

San Marzano Redorta
Red Pear
Costoluto Fiorentino
Pineapple Pig
Janet's Jewel
Carbon Copy
Big Brandy
Genuwine
and a couple others..

One I'm looking forward to again is Pink Berkeley Tie Dye!! Grew it last year and was blown away by it!

Greg

AlittleSalt · December 10, 2014

I just glanced at the 2015 Tomato Growers catalog to make sure the three hybrids I want to grow are in this year's selections.
Celebrity VFFNTA, Sungold, and Super Sweet Cherry 100 are all offered

I am going to grow some of the Artisan types (Pink, Purple, and Sunrise Bumble Bee and Blush.)

Chang Li, Ten Hung Tan Chieh, and Haung Se Chieh

Wild tomatoes - Everglades, Litchi, Matt's, and Texas Wild Cherry

Black Plum, Bradley, Captain Lucky, Ildi, Mayo's Delight, Mariana, Porter, Spike and whatever I get from the MMMM.

I'm equally excited about growing all of them.

Father'sDaughter · December 10, 2014

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Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

So what is it that you just cant wait for?

Ask me again after I get my bubble envelope from Tormato. I know it'll be in there, I just don't know what it is yet!

jmsieglaff · December 11, 2014

2015 will be the year of the black tomato in my garden. In addition to my every year Black Krim, I'll be trying out 5 new black tomatoes--Margaret Curtain, Carbon Copy, Black from Tula, Big Cheef, and Mikado Black--along side those will be Sungold F1 and my experiment yellow cherry PL tomato. In 5 gallon buckets I'll be doing Dwarf Vince's Haze F7 and hopefully another dwarf variety, another Sungold in 1/2 whiskey barrel and a Wisconsin 55 tomato in my son's garden (a very good tomato that became our 4 year old's favorite--probably because we live in Wisconsin).

Through swaps I've already got a number of seeds for 2016--which is looking like it will be the year of the cherry (Blush, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Green Doctors Frosted), in addition to my regulars plus who knows maybe one of the 2015 ones will become another must grow.

ChrisK · December 11, 2014

Always most excited about my own crosses. I have lots of new dwarfs I'm working on!

charline · December 11, 2014

I cant wait to see Blush, Golden Gates, Amethyst Jewel, Stick, Marvel Striped, Calabacito Rojo, Everetts Rusty Oxheart and Trentons Tiger.
But I am sure I will get some more exciting seeds in the MMMM.
And then I am very curious to see how the F3 from my own cross turns out: Its called Perferct Heart YM and you can get it in the swap. Its an Orange Russian 117 cross.

KarenO · December 11, 2014

i am completely predjudiced in favour of my crosses too

Working on three of the best this year and working out names for them Is what I am most excited about this year.
KarenO
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Always most excited about my own crosses. I have lots of new dwarfs I'm working on!

Fiishergurl · December 11, 2014

Great thread! I grew so many dark/purple tomatoes and have a couple of that we are going to grow again but 2015 will be more pinks and hearts. From our current fall crop Daniel Burson and Cherokee Tiger Large Red Dwarf will be grown again. New to me will be Rebel Yell, Fishlake Oxheart, and so many others that I'm still deciding on.... thank you to everyone that has been swapping seeds with me. Soooooo exciting!

Ginny

December 10, 2014	#1
heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	Can we talk TOMATOES............PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! Lets get back to talking tomatoes. What variety are you most excited about for 2015. New tomato varieties you heard about. Anything PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! I just ordered some seeds from Tomato Grower Supply. They have a new variety called Rapunzel. It is a hybrid that is said to grow trusses 40 cherries long hence the name Rapunzel. The pics look amazing and for just under 4 bucks a pack of 30 seeds they seem to be a great deal for and F1 seed. Im also excited to grow out some F2, F3, and F4 varieties i am working on of my own varieties and others. So what is it that you just cant wait for? __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

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ChrisK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,448	Always most excited about my own crosses. I have lots of new dwarfs I'm working on! __________________ Blog: chriskafer.wordpress.com Ignorance more frequently begets knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. --Charles Darwin

December 11, 2014	#15
Fiishergurl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Oak Hill, Florida Posts: 1,781	Great thread! I grew so many dark/purple tomatoes and have a couple of that we are going to grow again but 2015 will be more pinks and hearts. From our current fall crop Daniel Burson and Cherokee Tiger Large Red Dwarf will be grown again. New to me will be Rebel Yell, Fishlake Oxheart, and so many others that I'm still deciding on.... thank you to everyone that has been swapping seeds with me. Soooooo exciting! Ginny Last edited by Fiishergurl; December 11, 2014 at 10:31 AM.

December 10, 2014	#2
NarnianGarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Finland, EU Posts: 2,550	There are several.. thanks to all the kind people who sent me those new varieties. I'm curious about Humph (a green one), Black Seaman (germination failure in 2014), Purple Bumble Bee, Orange Banana (anything that's a paste tomato and orange is a must), Orange Strawberry (I love yellow/orange tomatoes), Gold Nugget and many others. Hope to re-grow some that I tasted 2014 - Black Cherry will go to a better location and hopefully bear fruit a bit earlier than in September. It's exciting... but I really try to keep away from any gardening stuff before March!

December 10, 2014	#3
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	I was just noticing there are more than the usual number of new introductions for all types of vegetables on the various seed websites. Still checking them out. Looking for some different peppers and herbs this year. -Lisa

December 10, 2014	#4
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Indigo Gold Berries & Indigo Cherry Drops from TGS look very promising to me. I'm going to order the Artisan variety pack again because I lost the two yellow ones to a late frost. They were great sellers for me. I'm also looking forward to all the the OP cherry tomatoes I have coming to me through swaps. I am going to offer two different cherry mixes next year, one just the Artisans and another of heirlooms. Marbonne is new from Johnny's, and I want to try it. I saved seeds from two mystery varieties, a red and a bicolor, that are grown by an Amish family in Kentucky, not too far from me. I am looking forward to seeing what I get from them. I just figured out that I'm sitting on a soil gold mine - a field that has had nothing but grass-fed cows for the past 80 years. The black dirt out there is like magic. It makes a tremendous improvement in flavor. I am starting to make an aerated compost tea out of that dirt, and early results are promising. I can't wait to try it on my early spring greenhouse plants.

December 10, 2014	#5
Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	New ones (for me) that I'm excited about are from J & L Gardens: Baby blue, Bedouin, Black Shadow, Blue Ambrosia, Blushing Beauty, Cafe Bule, Danube, Esmeralda Golosina, Favorie De Bretagne, Finnish Yellow, Golden Tiger, Lee's Sweet, Pink Perfection, Red Ruffles, Rose Dawn, Rancho Solito, Painted Pink, Sleeping Lady x Orange Pixie, Vincent's White, Snow Cherry and Sweet White and Wild Tiger. From Wild Boar: Amethyst Jewel, Barry's Crazy Cherry, Blue Chocolate, Blue Gold, Candy Sweet Icicle, Cascade Lava, Dark Galaxy, Dragon's Eye, Janet's Jacinthe Jewel, Napa Giant, Norwood Meiners, Streak Lightning, and Yellow Radiance. From Tom Wagner: Chef Hubert, Blue Green Zebra, Wooly Green Zebra, Stripes of Yore, Pastel Sleeves, Siberian Tiger, Prince of Spades, Primary Colors. Others: Dino Eggs, Zebra Heart, Zebra Rita, Ozark Sunrise, MARNAR, George Detsikas Italian Red, PaddyMc"s Steelhead and Pink Furry Boar x Ananas Noir x Bosque Green Cherry. Hot Dawgs!!! It's gonna be fun!! Charley

December 10, 2014	#6
JamesL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 1,992	2015 tomatoes are a looooong way off for us East Coasters. It snowed here today.... I haven't put my list together yet for next season. Did get to eat some fresh Stump of the World's this December. Volunteer plant came up late and picked the green ones right before frost. Not as good as during the season, but pretty darn good! Rapunzel - That sounds interesting! I believe I am going to plant Rose Quartz multiflora next season. Looking forward to Margaret Curtain as a new variety as well. NG - Orange Banana- an excellent tomato. It will be in my garden next season again. Decent fresh eating, and really adds a dimension to sauce, in color and flavour. I am always excited about some of the usual suspects - Cherokee Purple, Stump of the World, Black Cherry, Goose Creek.

December 10, 2014	#7
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	Looking forward to Joes Pink Oxheart, Pink and Purple Bumblebees, and I think I will grow Santa Clara Canner again this year in addition to a number of old and new favs.

December 10, 2014	#8
gssgarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N.C. Posts: 1,827	New ones that I'm trying.. San Marzano Redorta Red Pear Costoluto Fiorentino Pineapple Pig Janet's Jewel Carbon Copy Big Brandy Genuwine and a couple others.. One I'm looking forward to again is Pink Berkeley Tie Dye!! Grew it last year and was blown away by it! Greg

December 10, 2014	#9
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	I just glanced at the 2015 Tomato Growers catalog to make sure the three hybrids I want to grow are in this year's selections. Celebrity VFFNTA, Sungold, and Super Sweet Cherry 100 are all offered I am going to grow some of the Artisan types (Pink, Purple, and Sunrise Bumble Bee and Blush.) Chang Li, Ten Hung Tan Chieh, and Haung Se Chieh Wild tomatoes - Everglades, Litchi, Matt's, and Texas Wild Cherry Black Plum, Bradley, Captain Lucky, Ildi, Mayo's Delight, Mariana, Porter, Spike and whatever I get from the MMMM. I'm equally excited about growing all of them.

December 11, 2014	#11
jmsieglaff Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Southern WI Posts: 2,742	2015 will be the year of the black tomato in my garden. In addition to my every year Black Krim, I'll be trying out 5 new black tomatoes--Margaret Curtain, Carbon Copy, Black from Tula, Big Cheef, and Mikado Black--along side those will be Sungold F1 and my experiment yellow cherry PL tomato. In 5 gallon buckets I'll be doing Dwarf Vince's Haze F7 and hopefully another dwarf variety, another Sungold in 1/2 whiskey barrel and a Wisconsin 55 tomato in my son's garden (a very good tomato that became our 4 year old's favorite--probably because we live in Wisconsin). Through swaps I've already got a number of seeds for 2016--which is looking like it will be the year of the cherry (Blush, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Green Doctors Frosted), in addition to my regulars plus who knows maybe one of the 2015 ones will become another must grow.

December 11, 2014	#13
charline Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: France Posts: 688	I cant wait to see Blush, Golden Gates, Amethyst Jewel, Stick, Marvel Striped, Calabacito Rojo, Everetts Rusty Oxheart and Trentons Tiger. But I am sure I will get some more exciting seeds in the MMMM. And then I am very curious to see how the F3 from my own cross turns out: Its called Perferct Heart YM and you can get it in the swap. Its an Orange Russian 117 cross.