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Tell me your ultimate tomatoes

9 years ago

Highest yield:

Best flavor:

Easiest/most disease resistant:

Best overall:

Best looking:

Largest fruit:

Best for container:

Best for short season:

Best cherry flavor:

Best cherry yield:

Your personal favorite and runner up:

Other comments:

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Seysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7

9 years ago

Those requirements are tough to gather. Plust what is considered BEST tasting, productive, good looking can mean different things for different people at different climates. If there were such things you wouldn'y see thousands and thousands of tomatoes grown, just in US alone.

The other thing is that our life is too short to try all the varieties to find the BESTS.
Just my opinion.

Seysonn

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digdirt2
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Check out all these discussions for starters.

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digdirt2
9 years ago
And here are a bunch about which ones do best in containers.

Best container varieties

And here is many of the 'best' discussions for cherry, yield, flavor, etc. as well as some surveys.

Best tomatoes discussions
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rnon99
Original Author
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
It's not supposed to be one ultimate tomato. I was asking which tomato fulfills each of those descriptions from your experience. For example, last year I'd say my Black Plum had the best flavor and the most productive, as opposed to my beefsteak (not sure which one it was), which probably only had four or five total and I didn't really like the taste. If I grew more I'd have more on the list.
digdirt2
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
<I was asking which tomato fulfills each of those descriptions from your experience.>

That's why I linked some of the previous discussions above. You'll find many discussions for each of your categories with the search and each has lots of suggestions/opinions. It is a frequent question.

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