Tomato taste report, 2017
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Comments (9)Hi Papa Jim That is great! It is so good to know that you had a successful tomato season. I did many tastings for people and got the feedback, most people were in love with the beefsteaks and I had a lot of varieties and colors and they were equally liked. About the acidity of the tomatoes, I would recommend that you read the descriptions on them, they usually tell about acidity. I am including a website that I find it reliable on the descriptions and I have tried some of the tomatoes listed and I agree. Here is a picture of my tomatoes early in the season. And today we had another very tasty tomato/pasta salad to go with lunch. Papa Jim, I am looking forward to your future very successful tomato seasons! Silvia Here is a link that might be useful: acidic tomatoes...See MoreFinal 2010 Tomato Season Report
Comments (3)That's a lot of info, bigdaddy. Good, helpful stuff. You're in Zone 7, but I'm not sure where, what latitude. I'm in a Zone 6 place with a 4-month winter, low light and low nighttime temps in the shoulder seasons. But I've got a naturally heated greenhouse. Can you take a stab at what long-vine ("indeterminate") varieties might be good for me to try - if I want a prolific producer of good-size, low-acid, round tomatoes? I'd appreciate your 'educated guess'....See MoreTomato Report
Comments (8)I finally found time to make my report. Black from Tula. Very good tomato overall. Do not crack, disease resistant. It has many seeds and plenty of gel, but still tastes good. Production: A; Taste: A; Return next year: Yes. Brandy Boy. Good tomato. The taste is good for the all purpose tomato, but not complex enough for the beefsteak. Production: A; Taste: B; Return next year: Yes. Japanese Truffle Pink. This one is too juicy for the real paste, but has a lot less juice, gel and seeds then in regular toms. Taste is mild and good. Will do well for drying and sauce. it has green shoulders which do not want to ripen. Production: A; Taste: A; Return next year: Yes. Malachite box. Very vigorous tomato, big fruits, disease resistant. Production: B; Taste: A; Return next year: Yes. Persimmon. Vigorous tomato, but not enough production. But the taste is very good, so I'll try it again. Production: C; Taste: A; Return next year: Yes. Lida Ukrainian. Good early determinant tomato. It keeps growing and setting fruit so it is more like a dwarf tomato. The fruits have green spots on the shoulders. Production: A; Taste: B; Return next year: Yes. Legend and Maria. Both are determinants. They started great, but were very susceptible to septotia = defoliated and runted out. Production C; Taste:B; Return next year: No. Japanese Truffle Red. I had big hopes for it. It looks very similar to pink version. However it is very susceptible to septoria and it has very few fruits. I did not taste it yet. Production: D; Taste: ?; Return next year: No. Bulgarian Triumph. Not impressed Production: C; Taste: ?; Return next year: No. Krasnodar Titans. This plant had herbicide damage in the beginning. So it did not do well. Undecided about this one. Indigo Rose. I purchased it late instead of purple eggplant, which I could not find. It is doing great and it sets fruits in the heat. I am undecided about this one....See MoreReport On The Five Tomatoes You Talked Me Into
Comments (20)"It's been pretty wet this year in our part of PA, and the heat was late in coming and hasn't been too extreme." I am just trying to find the most likely explanation for the tough skins and absence of splitting, since neither is a trait Sun Gold has. Even if it is against our intuition there is an explanation somewhere. You mention it has been rather wet, but Sun Gold has a big appetite for water when it grows into a vigorous plant. The answer could be in Rain + irrigation = Fine for the other varieties, but Sun Gold doing so well that the plant demanded more than the rain and irrigation, although that was fine or even too much for the others. I am growing some plants in open containers (to rain) where I was hand watering. At first I gave all equal shots which averaged 10 quarts per week, skipping on significant rain days and reducing on cloudy, humid days. It became clear that this was not working for some varieties, and this was modified to 10 and 20 quarts per week. I only say this because you had three symptoms that pointed to this: Thick skin, no cracking, very sweet: all can occur with insufficient water ... basically you mentioned 3 for 3. Granted with Sun Gold, very sweet might be what it is normally, but tomatoes get sweeter usually when they receive less water than could be applied healthily. Sun Sugar, which I suggested and was seconded by aegis has a thicker skin, so before I did that, I would try SG again if you liked them except for the skin, but try watering 1.5X the amount of the others assuming the Sun Gold plant gets vigorous. Just my opinion but I hope that helps. Sun Gold is a special tomato and worth a second try! Cheers PC edit: just noticed it was gorbelly's comment I replied to and not the OP's like I thought. So, we really would need to know how the OP handled the watering, but gorbelly's comment is well taken. There should be an explanation, and I suppose bad seed is not off the table, I just consider bad seed, subjectively, less likely....See Morenbm1981
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