Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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I am growing the tomato 'Ruby Surprise' from TomatoEden. I have not seen it listed anywhere else other than Pomidorlandia.
Has anyone else grown this variety? And if so, what are your impressions on it? For me this is a robust plant with red/brown fruit with a very unique flavor. I have never tasted another tomato like it. The fruit has very, very few seeds and was a large oblate fruit.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Chicago-land & SO-cal
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Have you tried emailing TomatoEden or Pomidorlandia? Maybe they know if its also under a different name?
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Yes I have. I am still waiting for their response. In the meantime I was hoping that one of my Tomatoville neighbors knew something about it. ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
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I wonder if it is the same as this one:
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=37214 Sadly, we never did receive feedback on this..... Linda |
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Tomatovillian™
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No I don't think that this is the same plant. My plant grew one huge tomato on a truss with one or two very small ones set very close to the main tomato. The very small dime size tomatoes would not grow any further until the larger one was first picked. It was very difficult to remove just the large one and so I usually ended up pulling both or all three.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Norway
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I tried some searching, and I know this is not what you're looking for, but it's definitely a Ruby's surprise. It would have surprised me too, as I've never heard of this happening.
http://www.myplainview.com/news/arti...to-8396187.php Steve |
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Tomatovillian™
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Location: Ontario
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Ha ha! I don't think that either James's or my submissions are the same thing. Looking forward to hearing more about the brown Ruby
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Tomatovillian™
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Ruby Surprise for me was an extremely large brown tomato. So large that I sent AKMark some seeds to try for growing or breeding competition tomatoes with. Ruby Surprise was by far the largest tomato in my 2016. These fruits were larger than any Delicious that I have ever grown. It had very passable taste as well as good texture. I wonder what this plant can do when put to the test and to grow only one fruit from it. The only major problem I see for growing the monsters is that I did not get any mega blooms on my plant.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Omaha Zone 5
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