Mark, it's so funny you should talk about exactly what's on my mind.... tomatoes that are consistently great tasting vs the ones that vary a lot from fruit to fruit.
I haven't found a pink that works for me yet, with consistent taste and production. Eva Purple Ball is the best pink I've tasted, and every fruit the same, but too late and not enough.
Of the ones you found consistently great, which was the earliest?
BTW I did get some nice fruit from Northern Lights after all. The colour and taste turned out to be identical to Oaxacan Jewel PL, although NLs are a bit more lobed or 'ruffled' looking, I could hardly tell them apart on the plate. NLs may be on average a bit larger but was much later, produced less, and had more disease stress, a bit early blight susceptible. OJPL bore at least 3X or maybe 4X the fruit, starting in cold early and continuing in heat when others had shut down, so it's still in top spot for a bicolour here.
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