Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 28, 2012 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
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2012 Which varieties are you most looking forward to trying for the first time?
Captain Lucky
Tastywine Green Giant Mystery Cross (looks like Kosovo or Orange Strawberry) Damon |
May 28, 2012 | #2 |
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Location: St Paul, MN
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Jersey Giant, Red Barn, Crnkovic Yugoslavian, Opalka
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May 29, 2012 | #3 |
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Brad's Black Heart and Sungold. Also, Matt's Wild Cherry.
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May 29, 2012 | #4 |
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Amazon Chocolate, Fish Lake Oxheart, Lucky Swirl and Wherokowhai.
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May 29, 2012 | #5 |
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Piennolo
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May 29, 2012 | #6 |
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Magnif Olympica Purple w/ green stripes from China (ebay) Spudatula (oops) it's rl |
May 29, 2012 | #7 |
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Rosella Purple, Tommy Toe, BW from Croatia, Pantano Romanesca, ok, I'll just stop there.
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May 29, 2012 | #8 |
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Just the idea of this question makes me laugh! I'm trialing about 80 varieties this year, so hopefully I can get some to ripen, and, if it's not too much to ask, taste good, too.
Last year, Oregon Spring was a spitter for me, and I couldn't get Bloody Butcher or Chocolate Cherry or another variety I can't remember because I never got to taste it, to ripen a single fruit last year. The late blight hit the week my first Roma ripened. Thank goodness I cut lots of branches of the SunSugar and brought them inside to ripen over the fall before it ruined them. They were all I really got that I enjoyed last year. So, I'm most looking forward to the first non-spitter to ripen! j |
May 29, 2012 | #9 |
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Barlow Jap, Terhune, African Queen, Prue, Vorlon, Indian Stripe, Carbon, JD's Special C-Tex, Momotaro, Liam's Brandywine, Kosovo, Brandywine from Croatia.
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May 29, 2012 | #10 |
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I'm looking forward to ALL of them b/c there's not a one that I've grown before, and that's going along with my choice to grow varieties that will be new to all or most.
Oops, there is one that I've grown before and that's Jet Star F1, which has always been reliable for me and usually performs well in an adverse season. There are a few I won't see b'c of germination problems and no plant for me b'c I told Shoe to keep his plants of small and large heart, not yet named, and I won't see Curley Kaley nor Brilliant Pink either, for the same reason. Looking at my list right now I can't pick out which ones I'm most looking forward to b'c for many of them all I have is a variety name, some I know what country they came from and that's about all. So almost all of them will be surprises and actually I love that.
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May 29, 2012 | #11 |
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I am so looking forward to any and all great tasting yummy tomatoes but I am curious to see what will come from each new to me.
For cherries, will I prefer either Sweet Beverley or Warren's Yellow over Annie Sunshine?? For the short and early will Moravsky Div take the prize?? For hearts, Serotse Buivola or Zolotoe Serdce?? For Pinks, Stump of the World, Sandul Moldovan, Church, Richardson, Todd County Amish, which will weigh in big?? For Reds, Jean's Prize or Van Wert Ohio?? For Yellows, Maylor Roth's Orange, or Dr. Wyche's Yellow?? For Blacks, Amazon Chocolate or the Black Elephant and Black Sea Elephant (PL)?? Will I find any clues to what happened to Lescana Heart in 2009 or 2010 to give a PL Bicolor small strawberry, so growing several plants from '09 and '10 to look for differences as well as the originial source?? So yea, just can't wait for what's to come!! And I will look forward to hearing what each of you had great success with. Last edited by patty_b; May 29, 2012 at 08:14 AM. Reason: spacing |
May 29, 2012 | #12 |
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For indeterminate varieties:
Caitlin's Lucky Stripe, Piennolo, Torre Canne, Big Sandy, Striped Sweetheart, Large Lucky Red, Bridge Mike's, Dester Amish, Giant Syrian, Don's Double Delight, Selwin Yellow, Strawberry Margarita, Dana's Dusky Rose, Nelson's Golden Giant, Amana Orange, Nebraska Wedding, Trader Joe yellow cherry saved seed, Indian Stripe X Purple Smudge bee cross selections (3), Teddy smooth, Teddy steak, Maidens Gold, Tondino, Sorrento, the new F1 Dwarfs (Leggy, Softy, Fancy, Kiwi, Ivalde) For Dwarfs - all of them! especially the new F1s (Harmony, Dainty, Cheerful), the hearts - Pink Passion, Lemon Ice, Golden Heart, Scarlet Heart; Caitydid, the unusual Pesty striped from ddsack, a few named by Rena from Witty - Patrina Pepperina, Neil Lockhart and Loaves and Fishes; F2s from Dopey heart shaped F1 and Ivalde; ivory from Sunny found by ddsack; various Uluru Ochres, Leesha, various stripes from Beauty and Tidy, various Snowy cherries from Templeton.
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May 29, 2012 | #13 |
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Neves azorean Red, Momotaro, Ananas Noire, Goose Creek, Cowlick's Brandywine, Kimberly, Medovaya Kaplya, Matt's Wld Cherry, and Dwarf Beryl Beauty are all ones I'm looking forward to for the first time!
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May 29, 2012 | #14 |
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I'm eager to try Barlow Jap, Red Barn, Wes (my first heart variety!), and KY Cabin perhaps most of all -- it was a late addition to my grow list, and I've heard very little about it.
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May 29, 2012 | #15 |
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Barnes Mountain Striped
Brutus Magnum Bulgarischer Rosa Riese Butch's Best Giant African Pink Paste Giant Valentine Hays' Tomato Hippie Zebra Hoy Irish Pink Istra Lugwig Oaxacan Jewel Peter Glazebrook Special Red Wolf Rocky Russian Big Roma Seek-No-Further Love Apple South American Banana Worley Red |
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