Any winners in free sample seeds?

[nhardy]

Just curious, if you have received any free sample seeds that were worth buying the next year?

If yes, name your seed source and winning variety!

[clkeiper]

I got Amish Gold last year from totally tomatoes and I did like it. I would grow them again.

[nhardy]

I got a package of Giallo De Summer from Totally Tomatoes & planted two of them. As of today, not one blossom has set any fruit. They are a rather bushy plant taking up space. And so far not giving me anything back. So sad I had high hopes and for me it is bust of my time and space. I'm so glad I picked better seeds to start as I now starting to pick my large fruiting plants and pepper this week. My only bad pick was Sun Gold Select. I'll plant good old Sun Gold next year.

[clkeiper]

Oh... I forgot about those... I planted the seeds but I don't remember if I got them in the garden... out of 300 plants I just can't remember them all.

[BigVanVader]

Originally Posted by nhardy

I got a package of Giallo De Summer from Totally Tomatoes & planted two of them. As of today, not one blossom has set any fruit. They are a rather bushy plant taking up space. And so far not giving me anything back. So sad I had high hopes and for me it is bust of my time and space. I'm so glad I picked better seeds to start as I now starting to pick my large fruiting plants and pepper this week. My only bad pick was Sun Gold Select. I'll plant good old Sun Gold next year.

Lol I got that one too but it didnt look impressive to me so it didnt make the list. Guess I made a good choice. Just to add they also didnt mail one variety I ordered till May. Wasn't very happy with that as it was one on my grow list.

[MarianneW]

I've never received free tomato seeds, but for chiles, I sure have! Shattah chiles from pepperlover.com. They're the most heat tolerant chiles I've ever tried, they're delicious and I gave bags of them to Palestinian friends for Eid who hadn't ever seen their loved chiles in the US before. I'll probably always grow them, they taste good in everything. It is 110f today with 10% humidity and they set more chiles.

[seaeagle]

I got these free ones from Totally Tomatoes. Have one plant, soggy ground in May stunted it and got one tomato from that time and it wasn't a good sample but it tasted pretty good, the half I could eat.

It was setting tomatoes and I put too much fish emulsion on it and had it pruned to 2 stems and one completely died and the other turned brown but lived and is setting tomatoes again.Weird it was the only plant out of 19 to do that.

The reason I planted it because the description said it performed well in hot humid climates and it did set about 5 tomatoes in muggy conditions, and is setting more.

Will report back on the taste I hope

[Ricky Shaw]

Rose de Berne, beautiful plants with tight clusters close to the vine. They were made for pruning to 2 or 3 stems in a cage. And they were back-ups, hadn't planned to use them.

edit to add: Tomato Growers Supply, also got Red Rose from them and didn't try that one as I'd heard it was a late season tom.

[clkeiper]

Giallo de Summer... Yeah, it is in the garden. I found one plant in the row of yellow tomatoes. it looks good. Not close to ripe yet though.

[nhardy]

Oh My Gosh. I mislabeled a plant. I planted 3 or 4 Giallo De Summer seeds. I planted 2 in pots that have finally set fruit. The third plant was found mislabeled by me and planted in my main tomato bed. I picked one today and tried it. Very thick skins that I could peel off. I found they were NOT low acid as I though they would be. Very good taste. The plant in the ground is loaded compared to the ones in pots.

[seaeagle]

The Giallo De Summer I tried wasn't sweet and mild like i heard yellow orange tomatoes were.I was kind of impressed too, had a little bite to it.Can't wait to try some more.