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I grew German Queen (impulse store purchase) last year. It was very productive. Good tasting pink tomatoes about the size of my IS PL. On the tomato size, my record over the years has been 19 oz Ananas Noire. Cherokee Purple also produced a lot over one pound.. Brandy Boy also gives fruits well over one pound. I will do a vs check with BW Suddurh this year.
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April 12, 2018 | #34 |
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Thats a good number of varieties with large fruits. I am not also for sports growing but it is nice to have a few big ones to show off.
I will try to tally some of my big tomatoes this year I think they will come from: Ananas Noire Branfdy Boy Brandywine Sud German Johnson Hillbilly ?
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Big Beef has that red tomato extra taste. The Brandywine derivatives do not have it. |
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May 10, 2018 | #36 |
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Pomodoro di Sorrento vs. Pomodoro "Sorrento Selection"
I just planted my seedlings out, and by appearance, the Pomodoro "Sorrento Selection" looks bigger & more vigorous than the Pomodoro di Sorrento.
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Probably it will be the first ripe one , not counting cherry/grape varieties. THE Brandy vars are behind. ISPL is right behind BB.
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Andes Horn Altai Orange Aunt Ginny's Purple Aunt Ruby's German green NOT (bi-color?) "Bacon Lettuce and This" Beaverlodge Slicer Big Beef F1 BKX x SNFLA F1 "Blue Suede-uth Shoes" Brandywine Sudduth Bulgarian Old Sort Bulgarian Triumph "Cabin Fever" Cole Ditmarsher Divine Maltese (with several requests for seed, this one gets caged and mulched) Donskoi Dotson's Lebanese Heart Early Cascade Early Kus Ali Early Wonder Pink Efimer "Elbonian Hip Deep" F3 EM Champion experimental PL yellow cherry Fireball Fishlake Oxheart (pink, as I have still not found the red one) Fordhook First Forest Fire GGWT Jagodka Kapidag Red Kellogg's Breakfast Heart? Latah Mat-Su Express "Miss Scarlet In The Kitchen With The Knife" (I have a yen for board games. If there is a Japanese vendor selling this, what would the translation be?) Neves Azorean Red Oaxacan Jewel NOT/ "Wretched Heart" Opalka OLd Brooks Orange Jazz Orange Strawberry Pearly Pink Orange Pervaya Lyubov Pink Princess Prue NOT PSR-37 Rhode Island Early Rose de Berne Rose of Tashkent "Seek-No-Further Love Apple" Sgt. Pepper's (Karen's heavy antho) Shirley S. Shuntukski Velican Siletz SNFLA x BKX F3 PL SNFLA x BKX F3 RL SOTW Stupice Sklenekove SunGold F1 Sweet Ozark Orange Toedebusch Pink Visitation Valley Yorkbec Zena's Gift Also, many, many crosses/variations of Granny's Heart, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Prudence Purple, and "Kardia Karpos". late starts, not yet planted... Kootenia "Perpetual Change" Pokoritel Sedets/ Subjugator of Hearts Pozhar I'll sort out the versus once I start getting tomatoes. Last edited by Tormato; June 14, 2018 at 02:54 PM. |
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Carolyn,YES,it was Kardia Karpos you sent tome,I asked you the same ? before but you never got back to me on that.Problem solved.
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In the dwarf department, I am comparing Dwarf NOAH’s Stripe vs Dwarf Metallica vs dwarf purple stripe from Dwarf Firebird Sweet line vs one from Beauty King (seeds from Craig). I threw in Fred’s Tie Dye for comparison, though the seeds were started much later.
Then I am growing out the original Coorong Pink (seeds from Tatiana’s) and comparing it to the antho version I got last year and the antho with stripes Craig got. I am also comparing an F-3 Beauty line that gave me an orange tomato with gold stripes last year (working name Dwarf Orange Sunburst) with 2 sent me by Idahowoman, Dwarf Suz’s Beauty and another F-6 from the Beauty line. So far the 2 from Idahowoman are larger with a more open growth habit. This is my first year growing Determinates. I am comparing them for production and length of growing season, which I am guessing is not all that different this far north. I also want to compare them to growing dwarfs. The 6 I am growing are Black Seaman, Cyril’s Choice, Danko, Djalo Santa, E M Champion, and Milano Plum. I have tried to unseat Black Cherry as my husband’s favorite cherry tomato for some time now without success, because it is disease prone for me and the vines get so long and hard to support. My candidates to do that this year are Cinnamon Pear and Rebel Alliance (seeds from Marsha). My goal this year was to get down to 80 varieties, but I actually only got it down to 103, so there needs to be more eliminations this year. Ultimately, everything is compared to everything else for flavor first and then production. It the plant is still standing and producing at the end of the season, it gets extra points, also. |
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BKX vs Black Krim.
Kellogg's Breakfast vs. BKX Seeds sown for all four March 11. BKX had 100% germination, Black Krim 66%. KBX 60%, Kellogg's Breakfast 80% All fertilized with 1/4 strength fish emulsion and liquid kelp on 3/26. Hardening off began 4/15. Transplanted 5/14. Sprayed with epsom salt and aspirin solution 5/15. Calnit down the tube 6/8, prune and azamax/dawn spray on leaves 6/9. 6/14 fertilized with solution of Dr. Earth's tomato food/Big bloom/Great big tomatoes. All four plants showing some level of fasciation at the stem today, 6/15. All have flowered, none have fruited. BKX is the worst, also showing two fused blossoms. This is the BKX plant as a whole. Black Krim is larger, with more blossoms. I am attempting to prune BKX and Black Krim to two stems. This is Kellogg's Breakfast: A close up of the Kellogg's Breakfast fused stem: Here is KBX today: And KBX's much more pronounced fused stem. KBX is also smaller than Kellogg's Breakfast. |
June 27, 2018 | #42 |
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BKX vs Black Krim
As of 6/25, Black Krim has fruit growing. BKX does not. |
June 27, 2018 | #43 |
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Do you have pictures. Planted Pomodero Sorenti not sure which one of yours. Plant has many curling leaves.
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June 27, 2018 | #44 |
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If it's Pomodoro Sorrento Selection, that came from Italy via Romania to me to you. Not supposed to have curling leaves.
Speaking of the Pomodoro Sorrentos, so far my Pomodoro Sorrento Selection has large ridged round tomatoes and my Pomodoro de Sorrento has heart shaped fruit. Puzzling if they're supposed to be similar, but the Selection one could be a fused fruit. I'll try to get pics. Nan Nan |
June 27, 2018 | #45 |
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I bought the seeds in Italy 3 years ago under the name pomodero sorenti. They are 2 feet tall and are not fruit setting yet.
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