Which slicers/beefsteaks have a tropical or melon taste?

[Marcsky]

Looking to grow slicer and beefsteak heirlooms that have a more tropical/pineapple/ambrosial/melon taste. I recently tried Pineapple tomato and Hawaiian Pineapple tomato which have that flavor. Any others you recommend that fall into that category?

[Worth1]

Orange Russian 117.

Worth

[MissS]

Limmony has a citrusy flavor.

[Marcsky]

I heard about Orange Russian 117 and will be growing it next year. Thanks for confirming it.

[KarenO]

I think quite a few bicolour tomatoes could be described as fruity.
Serendipity, Oxacan jewel, Dagmas perfection are 3 I would recommend. Also the white beefsteaks you may wish to try, they tend to be sweet some describe a fruity or melon flavour. White tomesol, great white are examples.
KarenO

[Marcsky]

Karen, thanks. I forgot to add to my original post that I'm not looking for tomatoes with a overly tart flavor. Any of those that you mentioned have that? I thought I read somewhere that Dagma's perfection is somewhat tart.

[KarenO]

Not in my garden.
I find most bicolours tend toward sweet. Some very sweet.
Everyone is different though, just have to try them yourself to know.
KarenO

[pmcgrady]

Pineapple Pig from Wild Boar farm and Northern Lights.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by KarenO

Not in my garden.
I find most bicolours tend toward sweet. Some very sweet.
Everyone is different though, just have to try them yourself to know.
KarenO

BINGO!!!

So true since not everyone tastes the same tomato the same way and there are actually human genes that play a part in taste, and not just tomatoes, and each of us have some of those genes.

Carolyn

[nancyruhl]

Virginia Sweets if very similar to Hawaiian Pineapple in coloring and flavor. I tried Ananas Noire and found to have a very sweet but tangy flavor that I love. Another one that surprised me with its melon like sweetness this season was Orlov Yellow, which is not yellow but orange. Excellent flavor.

[Marcsky]

Originally Posted by nancyruhl

Virginia Sweets if very similar to Hawaiian Pineapple in coloring and flavor. I tried Ananas Noire and found to have a very sweet but tangy flavor that I love. Another one that surprised me with its melon like sweetness this season was Orlov Yellow, which is not yellow but orange. Excellent flavor.

Thanks. It's interesting, when I had my mother taste the Hawaiian pineapple tomato, she didn't think it was a tomato, she thought it was melon.

[PaulF]

Along with Virginia Sweets and Orange Russian 117, several other bi-colors have that citrusy/fruity flavor including Hillbilly, Lennie and Gracie's Kentucky Heirloom, Old Flame and some oranges and yellows that I can't think of right off hand.

[Father'sDaughter]

I just looked at my notes from the two years I grew Virginia Sweets, and I described it as being "rich and sweet with bite." That's about the same as I would describe a ripe pineapple. Without the bite (acid), I would describe both as bland, which is how most melons taste to me.

I'm growing Orange Minsk Heart this year which I would describe as fruity, with an almost floral aroma. I see it described as sweet (to me, it's bland), but my husband, who loves melons, loves this tomato.

[Gerardo]

Copper River , OR117 and Little Lucky fit the bill

[Lindalana]

Malakhite box is very fruity for me, also I am growing one that I named/ translated as Yellow clusters, well it is a orange beef, it has very melony texture, as in juicy but not running juicy. I like it a lot and have shared seeds on T'ville.