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Comments (15)Hairmetal, It's finally forming new buds on the bare part of branches so it should look fuller in a couple weeks. It didn't look good for the past couple weeks with that much brown needles. What I really want is wet, wet, wet week to fill up the lakes around here otherwise we'd get hit with stage 3 watering restriction... It's been too long... Oct 31 was the last time we've gotten good amount of rainfall....See MoreTime to Evaluate 2014 Picks and Zaps
Comments (20)I'm still making some decisions and need to evaluate where I'm going to rotate the toms so I can figure how much space I'll have before I can figure how many plants I'll have next year. Growing next year for sure Bloody Butcher - Early, tasty little tomatoes. Was very prolific in the beginning of the season and is a bit slower now at the end. Cherokee purple- Not very prolific, but one of the best tasting tomatoes. Brandywine - like CP, it wasn't very prolific but right now still holds the title of my favorite tom taste wise. Unless I find a comparable tasting tomato, this one stays (and I'm planning on trying brandy boy next year to compare). Big Beef - BB is an ever dependable producer of tasty beefsteaks. It's also one of the healthiest and more vigorous plants I've grown. Black Cherry - I'm a convert. These are amazingly delicious. Tumbling Tom- Three tumbling tom plants in two different hanging baskets (one basket had one plant, the other had two) had me drowning in cherry toms most of the season. They're not as sweet as I like my cherries to be, but they taste good enough and produce well enough in a small space that I'm sure I'll grow again. On my will regrow if I have room list Bushsteak - My bushsteak met an early demise when the bucket I was growing it upside down in broke and smashed it to the ground. Before that it gave me a decent amount of pretty good sized toms. Flavor is decent, texture was a bit crunchier than Big Beef and there was more seeds. If I have room, I'll grow it again. Red Robin - Cute little mounding plants with really tasty fruit. I'm trying to figure out how to work more of them into my landsacping next year. Orange Roma- Produces typical roma plum shape toms on indeterminate plants. Fruit ripens to a deep yellow-orange. You know, I really wasn't expecting that I'd like OR. I'm not big into paste tomatoes and I had written off regular romas in the past. The only reason why I grew it was that I was sent the seeds free from Tomatofest. It took a long time to put it's first flower clusters out. Was the biggest and most lanky plant I had. Had some blossom end rot issues here and there... but in the end, it's still been extremely prolific and has some nice tasting fruit. It's sweet with a tart finish. If I have space I'll grow it again. Zaps 4th of July - Too similar to bloody butcher. Fruit tends to be a tad smaller overall and flavor isn't quite as good IMHO....See MoreHusband is watching porn because my menopause zapped my libido
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Comments (117)First, a caveat: This season was really a difficult one weather-wise. Cool and wet right up through mid-June, then hitting 100F by early July. Every plant across the board was dropping blossoms in July, though the non-cherry types were noticeably harder hit. Also had a lot more BER on the big tomatoes than I've ever had, probably because I couldn't keep enough water in the soil during the worst of the heat. So not a great season for comparing cultivars. That said... Red Siberian is a ZAP for good. This was the third year in a row for it and it has never been anything other than puny, weak, and barely producing, let alone as an early. Maybe there's a sweet spot climate-wise for it, but it isn't here. From the Tomato Cherry Rainbow Blend seed pack by Botanical Interests: Super Snow White is a grow again. This is the second year of growing, and either as container or in-ground, this one grows huge, produces quickly and heavily a lot of sweet cherry-sized fruit, and stayed healthy way longer than any other cherry. Brown Cherry has large fruit for a cherry, with decent production if not as early as a smaller cherry. But the taste is worth the wait. Green Grape was a bit of an uncertainty early on - as seedlings the plants always looked like they were drooping and nearly wilting. Even after plantout the plant tended to droop. But it produced amazing green/yellow fruit that is sweet and acidy and looks good in a salad. Worked better as a container than in-ground; the fruit seemed to sit for weeks until it started turning from green to yellow-green, but once it started it was consistent harvesting. Sweetie Red I will not grow again as it wasn't all that early and the fruit was so small that it almost wasn't worth picking. Bicolor Cherry literally just sat there for two months, didn't even flower until I was picking the first Black Krims, and it was August before I could harvest any of the few fruit it produced. Flavor was bland, and there was a lot of scarring on the skins. ZAP. Black Krim & Cherokee Purple: The BK plants flowered and produced earlier, but had a short flush and then nothing for two months. The CP plant took forever to flower, but produced larger fruit for a much longer time. I'll probably only grow CP next year as the plant got very large and needed more room than I planned for. Principe Borghese was a first-time grow for me. I will grow it again because it was one of the best producers this year. Worked best in a container, but make sure you have a good support system for it because this one was definitely not determinate like some companies advertise. A good producer of clusters of ping-pong ball size fruit that have that traditional tomato flavor, texture suitable for either fresh use or sauce or drying. This was another plant that has very thin, droopy foliage and makes you want to water it more than you should. Later than a cherry, but earlier than the bigger toms. Be careful handling the seedlings as the plants are more prone to breaking and splitting than other cultivars. Costoluto di Parma: This was another first for me. Very pretty pleated fruit, was actually the first container plant to set fruit, but the in-ground plants did better at producing . The seedlings had really large leaves and grew prodigiously faster than any other variety, but the plants were the worst in terms of blossom drop, though they are still producing this late in the season. Production only average, but I'll give it another shot next year because the taste is really good for fresh slicing and with a more normal season I can see getting more fruit. So there you have more of a review than a list....See Moredavidrt28 (zone 7)
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