Horrible Tomatoe, CHerokee Purple?
Mindyw3
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Comments (2)Hi KatJaqu! Would be glad to trade some of my Cherokee Purple Tomato seed for some of your Blue Miniature Corn seed. Please send me your mailing address in an email and I will send you the seed and a return address label. Thanks in advance for the trade!...See MoreCherokee Purple Cherry Tomato?
Comments (11)Hi Linda, They are very tasty and to me taste the similar to CP so I am a bit baffled. It is a vigorous plant with lots of these little cherries all over it. I will try saving some seeds since I like it but I will go back to my old seed packet for the regular sized ones too. Hi Goodground, I got them from a regular brand from my local garden store. I have them put away in my freezer but I will dig them out and see which brand it is. I will grow the other year's seeds from a different company and save them because I like the big ones for sandwiches etc. Do Black Cherries taste like CPs? They are tasty so if that is what they are, I will grow them on purpose next time lol. I just googled Black Cherry and it does look like a "mini" Cherokee Purple and my tomatoes. I think you solved the mystery!...See MorePurple Cherokee Tomato - splitting - why?
Comments (9)Oh wow, what great looking tomatoes! :-) Dave - I guess I need to improve my watering efforts, but I find it a mystery why only the Purple Cherokee has cracked so badly. The Sungold, in the past has cracked on me, after a few days of heavy rain. This year the rain has been more moderate and my watering seemed to be enough, because I’ve hardly seen a cracked Sungold. And the Giant Belgium, that I tried for the first time this year, has provided me huge tomatoes with no cracks. But I never check the soil as you suggest. Probably because I can see around the base of the plants where there is no mulch, that it is dry. I realize that doesn’t mean it’s dry under the surface. And I’m not really paying much attention to how long I’m watering, which is why I said 60+ minutes. I move the nozzle around to cover all the ground around the plants. None of my perennials have suffered from yellowing lower leaves this season either. So I think I have improved. In the spring, I measured how long it took to fill up a 5 gallon bucket with my nozzle and it took a count of 60 - 75 seconds. So I though that was enough and I was afraid to give the plants too much. But checking the soil routinely would let me know how far my watering is reaching below the surface. All my plants are in the ground and will remain so. I wish I could install drip irrigation, but I don’t see a time I will be doing that soon. At some point I will. I tried 4 tomato plants in the front of my house this year, where I have full sun. I compared that to the same varieties I grew in the back where there is a little more than 6hrs only. It made quite a difference. The Sungold tomato in front is huge and we’ve had a bumper crop but very little from the back. So, I think I am going to expand where I can grow tomatoes in front and grow something else in the back next year. Can someone explain picking at the color break a little better? Also, I found so much foliage and fruit low on the plant, that it would be difficult to see the bottom of the tomato. I’ll try to train them better next year. Seysonn -3 gallons twice a week for each plant sounds good. I can’t imagine that I haven’t been giving them that. Is it possible I was giving them too much? Would that produce the same cracking? I’m going to time how long it takes to fill a 5 gallon bucket this week again, just to make sure I remember right. Yes, I just cover the entire ground overlapping as I go. Over the winter, I’m going to have to come up with a better watering system. David - I’m getting the idea that watering well and picking at the right time will give me what I’m after. Thanks. I haven’t grown a large tomato in a long time, this is my first try with them. I normally only grow the cherries. Thank you all!...See MoreSaving seeds from Charcoal x Purple Cherokee hybrid tomato?
Comments (1)Hybrids do not have true-to-type seeds. You find out if it's Open pollenated/OP or a hybrid by the seller telling you. In this case Burpee does not say if it's an F1 hybrid or a stabilized open-pollenated but they imply it's a hybrid. I googled the name, one seller I found said it was F1, another said OP. Save the seeds and find out I suppose....See MoreMindyw3
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