Favorite Tomatoes for Flavor PLEASE

[robin282]

I want to grow really good tasting slicers for my mom, sister an a friend. I use tomatoes mostly for sauce. Can folks post their favorites for flavor? Also, since flavor is first, please post any drawbacks so that I can account for them. For example, if it needs more air space and so forth. I would also like advice for different colors (for flavor) too. Is there a yellow favorite? A pink?

Any information would be quite appreciated!
Thanks,
Robin

[Alan]

Keeping in mind that I don't eat tomatoes, I do have a list of my families and my customers favorites. It's all pretty common stuff so may not be of much use to you depending on how deeply you want to go into growing tomatoes and how eclectic you want to get with your selection.

Pink: Brandywine

Red: Rutgeurs, Marglobe

Yellow: Lemon Boy Hybrid

Orange: Golden Jubilee, Nebraska Wedding

Bi-Color: Mr. Stripey/Pineapple

Purple: Cherokee Purple

Black: Black Krim

Green When Ripe: Aunt Ruby's German Green

White: Great White

Hope that helps!

[robin282]

It certainly does because I don't eat tomatoes either! I only cook with, and make gifts out of them.
Robin

[robin282]

Anybody have Nebraska Wedding?
Robin

[jtcm05]

My 5 favs in order:
Lucky Cross - bi-color
Cherokee Purple - purple
Earls Faux - pink
Brandywine - pink
Cherokee Green - green

[PapaVic]

Big Cheef (Sudduth x Unknown RL) PL-F2 (best tasting tomato I ever ate)
Cherokee Purple RL (pink/purple slicer)
Cherokee Purple PL aka Spudakee (pink/purple slicer)
Tom's Yellow Wonder (bright yellow slicer)
Spudayellow Strawberry (gold blunt heart slicer)
Glory (red hybrid slicer)
Gardener's Delight (red cherry)
Chello (gold cherry)

[MawkHawk]

My favorites for taste in no particular order:

Stump of the World
Earl's Faux
Dr. Wyche's Yellow-An excellent, sweet tasting orange that yields well too.
Cherokee Purple
Indian Stripe-A very good, not excellent, tasting variety, but the yield for me is huge.
Aunt Gertie's Gold-The best orange I've ever eaten, but yields low for me.
Lucky Cross-Very good taste but low yield for me.

[Alan]

I thought that I might have had seeds for Nebraska Wedding tomato but upon searcing I turned up none. Maybe someone else here has them to share. If not I do believe that they are still available through the SSE public catalouge.

[robin282]

Thanks!

[paquebot]

robin282 said:

Anybody have Nebraska Wedding?
Robin

I've got a sealed 2004 SSE packet of 30 seeds. Willing to split if you aren't able to get them elsewhere.


Martin

[cff]

Martin I was looking at the news tonight I'm really dreading the conference I have to attend in Nebraska on Feb 23. Any chance you could loan or split the use of one of them super thick Wisconsin winter coats ?

[robin282]

Thanks! I may have a source, not sure yet, if not, I'll go for your offer. Really I do not need more than 7-10 seeds.
Thanks!
Robin

[robin282]

I have started all the ones listed that I happen to have.

paquebot: I'll take you up on the offer for the Nebraska Wedding; my other chance fell through.

Thanks everyone, and I would love more if anyone else wants to chime in here!
Robin

[americangardener]

I'm kinda partial to Delicious.. I like the flavor better than Brandywine and it grows better for me. I dunno, maybe the brandywine pink dosen't like my soil or maybe the weather conditions weren't right last year... but i didn't really care for it so much. I had so, so many others that were way better tasting last year, and without the core.

For cherry tomatoes, my favorite was black cherry. I'm not big on cherry tomatoes, but that one i really loved last year.

For yellow tomatoes, last season i didn't grow very many varieties. But out of the ones i did.. my favorites were Lillians yellow heirloom, and Orange Strawberry..(i guess that's actually orange) I liked em both mostly for the flavor.. but then they both had less seeds than many of the rest of my yellows. That was a bonus. Another memorable one was Ruffled... although i had a wide variation in sizes and flavors on my 5 plants. I couldn't exactly recommend it untill i figure out what it was actually supposed to produce. The largest, sweetest ones were of an excellent pineapple type flavor.. but then there were others that were more like stuffing tomatoes with little flavor... so the jury's still out on that one. I liked yellow peach for the texture, and it had a nice flavor.. but it didn't really produce all that much untill right before frost... so i guess it wouldn't be a favorite.. but i would grow it again.

Another favorite was Imp. Colossal Crimson... that one really impressed me all the way around, especially with the drought conditions. It had a really nice flavor... and produced better than most others too!

Anyways, hope that helps..
Dave

[Tom Akers]

My favorites:
Red/Pink
Earl's Faux, Brandy Boy, Supersonic, Jet Star
Green
Aunt Ruby's German Green, Green Zebra
Purple
Cherokee Purple, Purple Russian
Black
Paul Robeson
Yellow
Sun Gold, Yellow Brandywine
JMO,
Tom