Nice tommy. A good start me thinks. My Delicious went 945 grams (dont tell chicko). LOL

LOL, send a pic to Malcolm Campbell, you could start a competition :-)

Great going. Mantis needs to be put in his place. Just you wait.

I had better get in while I can then eh. Here are some of the past few days harvest with a 530 gram Carbon in front with some Cherokee Greens a Kellogs Breakfast, Soldackis etc.
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What dya think of Cherokee Green and Carbon? Plenty Up Over seem to like them.

I finally have some little fruit set on the KB here. Is that the orange-looking one Mantis?

Thats right Mabb. They are very yummy.
Grub, Cherokee Green are very good. Great tomato taste with a tang that makes them different to any others I have tried. Carbon are good but not great but they do set fruit outside of the greenhouse here which is a bonus.

Thanks. I need to try Cherokee Green. Might hit you for seeds for next season. Providing you have saved some, of course.

Thanks. I need to try Cherokee Green. Might hit you for seeds for next season. Providing you have saved some, of course.

Is anyone bringing Cherokee Green to the Taste Fest in March? I'd be eager to taste it.

Same with Green Giant. Even though I've got 2 plants of Green Giant in the ground, they look incredibly miserable. They have hardly grown and just don't look good. No idea why.

I still have one plant of CG in a pot. I will keep it going in the hope of getting a ripe fruit for March.
The seeds I just squeezed out of one should keep us all in seeds.

Good news on the seed save.

Spatz,
If your RL GMG is anything like mine you will have plenty of green tomatoes. No? ;)

Grub, those GMG are monsters! They are trying to take over the tomato patch. They've already set fruit. I should have plenty of green tomatoes. I'm also growing Moldovan Green (looking very good, too), and Aunty Ruby's German Green (doing well, too). All new to me. :)

My last surviving GMG PL is going great with flowers on two trusses. I have been helping it out by tapping out pollen and sharing it about LOL. Its good to have a young plant coming on when all others are succoming to leaf desease.

Happy news. I'm so glad they're growing well and that you're looking after them. I know they will repay the favour with plenty of fruit and no trouble. As an aside, they were especially handy during the height of my bird problem last year.

I have eight GMG growing. The RL seems to produce more fruit and is just so vigorous, but then I have one PL that's got the same pile of Cherokee Purple-like flower trusses. But they're all loaded and, in this 100 per cent humidity, so little leaf disease.

If the flavour's a repeat of last year, which I'm sure it will be, it's a must-grow in the green-when-ripe department. But that's my opinion. Don't hold back. Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Here is a link that might be useful:

Looks like you have bagged a truss there Grub. I will not need to do this as my GMG is in the greenhouse, and the plants that are still in there, stopped flowering weeks ago.
Pulled my true Box Car Willie today. Got 15 fruit off it (miser), and only small with 150 gram being the biggest. Yummy taste, but no better than Zogola, Soldacki, Brandywine or Gregoris Altai so it will not be grown again here. Ruthless bugger ain't I.

Well spotted, Mantis. Just checked. All the flowers on that truss in that back shrivelled and fell. Trying really hard to get a pure seed save on the RL and PL, especially one of the PLs that's going nuts.

As an aside, I planted out a lanky Aunt Rubys German Green next to the chookhouse because I felt sorry for it. It set only one fruit as it is in full sun, but the fruit ripened bright yellow. Weird. I will taste him later today and if he tastes good I'll save some seeds.

Bet it's yum. Is it gold/green?

Native bees working overtime here now. Watchingn them go from New Big Dwarf to Grub's Green to Rose Quartz Multiflora (they love all the flowers) to Livingston's Favourite and more. The patch is buzzing.

Don't get any bees around my plants. Not sure why not.
There is no green at all just yellow. It tasted really good so I saved as many seeds as I could. More experiments for my Autumn crop in the greenhouse :-)
Fall Autumn is going to include:
F2's of Nepal X Tommy Toe
F1 of College Challenger X Brandywine
F1 of Golden Ponderosa X Russian Red
Mystery yellow above
Polish Dwarf
Citron Compact

My PL GMG has produced a rather small RED critter!!!!!

Whoa! Yikes! Oh, no! Helpppppppp!

But mine are shaping up to be mid-sized beefsteaks like the originals. Did yours look that way?

Fingers crossed and I'm sorry. Sounds like a cross, but not sure where in the gentic train it fits.

Thanks for the feedback.

Ciao, Grub.

Mantis, respectfully, that sure doesn't look like any Carbon fruit I've ever picked. Never seen any hint of red tinge whatsoever, even when partially ripe.

Carbon is a dark one for me, even in the early spring before it really heats up and gets into the high 80's (F) and above.

Not sure why but black types don't seem to go black in my garden. I have had the same comments about my Cherokee Purples. Black Krim darkened up well last year but CP, Carbon and Paul Robeson have all been mahogany at best

Mantis
I think the more heat the darker they end up. I've grown Black Russian a couple of years now but they only end up a nice shade of burgundy in Tas. Vic might be similar. Would love to find a true cool climate Black if anyone has suggestions. I'm trying some Black Russians in the greenhouse this year but they haven't started to colour up yet. It got down to 9 degrees last night.

Cheers
Linda