Some stats: the most popular tomato varieties...

[NarnianGarden]

* Never seen any of those varieties, runs off to Tatiana's page*

[NarnianGarden]

Where can one find Purple Tomatillo on your database? I could not find tomatillos under any category. I happen to have seeds and I'll try their germination success next spring..!

[MrBig46]

Tatiana's TOMATObase is a tomato bible and lexicon too for me.
Vladiímír

[Douglas_OW]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

The true mark of a tomato maven is dedication to trialing and searching for a wide range of tomato flavors. The average person who trials 20 or 30 varieties will never get a chance to experience the range of colors, shapes, and flavors that are available. I would speculate that you would have to grow around 500 varieties to have a reasonable claim to Maven status.

Darrel,
Would you care to expand just a bit on your Maven rating system?
Does 20 to 30 new-to-me varieties each season make me "average"?
Are 500 total varieties per season or year required for a Maven ranking?
Or, 500 new trials per year?

No matter. As Steven Wright says, "I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Jim

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by Douglas_OW

No matter. As Steven Wright says, "I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
Jim

Haha. Life may be eternal, but our time on Earth is limited.

[Tania]

Originally Posted by NarnianGarden

Where can one find Purple Tomatillo on your database? I could not find tomatillos under any category. I happen to have seeds and I'll try their germination success bext spring..!

That's a very good question! Tomatillos category was not visible from the left hand menu. I added it there just now.

The direct link to the category - http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Category:Tomatillo

[Tormato]

Graceland Red and Graceland Yellow...near the bottom. I guess the King never put a slice on a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Trmat

[Tania]

Probably not! LOL

These are new pages I created as a placeholder for the variations I got in this year Graceland growout, where I got everything but Graceland matching the originator's description.

[habitat_gardener]

Originally Posted by Douglas_OW

Darrel,
Would you care to expand just a bit on your Maven rating system?
Does 20 to 30 new-to-me varieties each season make me "average"?
Are 500 total varieties per season or year required for a Maven ranking?
Or, 500 new trials per year?...

It sounds like it's a corollary to the assertion Malcolm Gladwell popularized in his books that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at whatever you spend those hours doing.

[gill_s]

I think the 'least viewed varieties' may now have an increase in hits! I am curious to read about them.

I went back through the earlier posts in this thread and found one by Carolyn about Odesskiy Rozovyi. I did have seeds from your 2013 seed offer, Carolyn. I found It to be a wonderful tomato for all reasons- production, flavour, looks, disease resistance. It has shown no leaf mildew or botrytis which at this stage of the season in the UK seems to finish off my plants. It has still one tomato which is just blushing. I am treasuring it!
I grew the plant in an 11 litre container!
The system I use has containers with a hole in the base through which you feed a capillary matting wick. This then goes into a reservoir which contains water plus liquid feed, which 'wicks' up to the plant roots. As the plant matures the roots tend to grow through the hole into the reservoir and keeps the plant 'fed and watered'. Each unit has 4 pots to each base reservoir. I use these both in the greenhouse and outside. It has proved to be the most successful system I have tried, with our limited space available. It is amazing that it works for such large and productive plants as Odesskiy Rozovyi.

Thank you, Carolyn to have introduced me to this special variety.
Gill