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Post by richardw on Nov 28, 2012 23:54:28 GMT -5
My third tomato to ripen so far this season is Grubs Mystery Green,its the frist time ive grown this one and boy i must say,what a lovely tasting tomato,the family also love this one.
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Post by steev on Nov 29, 2012 0:02:03 GMT -5
Pretty! Seeds?
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Post by raymondo on Nov 29, 2012 7:20:40 GMT -5
Yes, Grub's Mystery Green is certainly up there with the tasty tomatoes. I've got a couple in this year to freshen up seed. Happy to send you some later in the season Steev if Richard doesn't have any.
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Post by richardw on Nov 29, 2012 12:44:45 GMT -5
Yep,i can send some seed to ya steev,just chuck me a PM
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Post by raymondo on Nov 29, 2012 15:19:24 GMT -5
I've only planted out some of my tomatoes so far. Preparing ground for the remainder is taking longer than hoped. In so far I have Black Cherry, Clear Pink Early, Ropreco Paste, Cornue des Andes, Speckled Roman and Sun Gold.
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Post by adamus on Jan 13, 2013 13:08:48 GMT -5
Just thought I'd give an update. my tomatoes are going crazy. We've had the once every five years hot Summer this year, si it's all popping out of the ground. With the 6 plants I said I'd grow, and the 6 or so that Ray gave me, I seem to have planted 37 plants. Go figure.!! It's actually 43 plants, and they're all hanging heavy with fruit. Only a handful of cherries so far ripe, but the next few weeks will be spent processing the crop, in between freezing the beans, and counting how many chillies I have. The eggplants are powering away. "Little Fingers has done really well, but they are so small, it's a bit of a waste of space, I could have grown the market monsters in the same space. The dwarves, which i only put in on Christmas Day, are already fruiting. And the blue tommie is doing it's thing. I'm not expecting much flavour wise, but the novelty is good. Pics will follow soon.
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Post by richardw on Jan 13, 2013 13:24:43 GMT -5
Sounds like your tomatoes are doing well adamus,we are having a similar summer also. The only outside tomatoes i have are the 20 Tomatoville dwarfs and four different cherry toms which ive picked the odd one but the main crop is still a few weeks away yet.
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Post by raymondo on Jan 13, 2013 13:48:08 GMT -5
I've had two ripe Sun Golds but nothing else yet. Plenty of fruit on the Clear Pink Early and Ropreco. Should be able to make a good lot of passata this year!
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Post by richardw on Jan 17, 2013 13:24:27 GMT -5
Tomato season is in full swing now with all the dwarfs producing,but none of them i'm overly impressed with though when compared them to Grubs Mystery Green,Napal and Azoychka
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Post by raymondo on Jan 17, 2013 14:40:28 GMT -5
Will it be a case of more tomatoes than you know what to do with Richard? Always seems to be the case here. Shame the flavour's not there with the dwarves you're growing, but they are being compared to some pretty good tasting tomatoes!
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Post by templeton on Jan 17, 2013 18:24:58 GMT -5
Just done the taste test on my dwarf growouts, and have got a very tasty F5 pink cherry to go on with. Everything else is slow slow slow. We've had a heatwave in spring which I think knocked the flowering and fruit set around, so not a lot of fruit. And another disease has come through, from which the most badly hit are just recovering. And I reckon this current heatwave will initiate a fair bit of BER. Not a lot of point relating a long list of mediocre performers. A few are doing OK tho. Masada is the most vigorous plant at both my gardens, looking to see how this commercial disease resistant hybrid tastes. One Amish Paste is doing great, but most of the early fruit BER. Snowwhite is powering along but not many fruit, and 1 Jaune Flammee is doing well. The rest pretty ordinary. Maybe they will come good.
My grubs is pretty much dead, pity since it's such a good taster.
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Post by mountaindweller on Mar 5, 2013 1:43:26 GMT -5
It is so wet that a lot of tomatoes are splitting especially olomovic (or however this is spelled). The tigrella don't split much and still have taste even they didn't see a lot of sun. My biggest problem is that my staking method is and always was crap and tips over. And I thought it goes back to dry.
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Post by raymondo on Mar 5, 2013 3:48:14 GMT -5
I've started pulling plants here. The long wet spell has ruined the ripe tomatoes and it's cooling off rapidly so I don't expect much from the green fruit on the vines. Time to finish up and make some sauce and green tomato relish. Clear Pink Early and Ropreco were excellent for productivity and earliness and Cornue des Andes for productivity. Clear Pink Early is a lovely tomato but once ripe, it softens very quickly and does not keep at all. Ropreco is a good little tomato, nice fresh, even better cooked. Cornue des Andes is a typical paste. Short on flavour fresh but cooks up to a delicious richness. Very stingy with seeds though. Regina's Yellow is a lovely tomato, good flavour, great looking. I don't like beefsteaks much because they almost always split and rot in our wet summers. This one is no exception. Grub's Mystery Green is a delicious tomato. Always glad to have it in the garden. Japanese Black Trifele is a great tomato. Well flavoured and quite productive. Odd that it has such a peculiar English name. Its Russian name simply translates as Japanese Truffle. I don't know why this name isn't used. Absinthe is rather long season here and unfortunately the rains came before fruit ripened. I have yet to taste one. Golden Queen is a pretty tomato but it was a very poor producer in my garden. I saved seeds from the few fruit it produced and didn't taste it. Tangella is the sister line to Tigerella but is far better IMHO. It's a small orange tomato, bigger than a golfball but not by much. The skin is quite firm but the taste is very good. Striped Roman got swamped by Sun Gold and did nothing much. Sun Gold, nothing to say on this one. Black Cherry, excellent as always. Burpees Quarter Century is a nice red tomato. Respectable flavour and yields on a compact plant. Evergreen, as for Absinthe. OSU Blue, grew it just for a seed increase. Havent tried any. The rest of my tomatoes were crosses I'm working on. Barossa Moon F5, a pale yellow small saladette from the dwarf project, not as well-flavoured as the F4. Pity. perhaps flavour will return in the F6. I crossed it with Sun Gold. (Barossa Moon F4 x Ropreco) F2 - got some variety here, as you'd expect from the F2. I selected one which I'll backcross to Ropreco next season. I'm really just looking for a dwarf version of Ropreco. ((Galina's Yellow x Snow White) F2 x KBX) F2 - grew 10 of these. Most were small pink, yellow or orange beefsteaks of so so flavour. Two were cherry types, a pink of exceptional flavour and an orange almost as good. I'll be pursuing these two lines. So, that's it for tomato season. Looking forward to collards and cabbages!
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Post by templeton on Mar 5, 2013 16:36:11 GMT -5
Pulled half of my plants this week.
What a shocker of a season. I've picked maybe 10 kilos total from something like 50 plants. One small batch of paste, and a half batch of roast tom chutney in the oven at the moment. My Dwarf project pink cherries as usual got hit by disease, but were relatively early and productive. Lots of regulars failed to produce a single fruit - Jap Black Trifele, Grubs, Cypriot, Black Cherry. Others almost equally tragic - tropic, Rouge de Marmande, Amish Paste, Al's Greek. The only real successes - Jaune Flammee (I love you!) and one of my commercial hybrids, Masada. At least the JF is edible.
I also grew commercial varieties Geronimo, Kadima, Granadero. Happy to report all of the commercials disappointed on flavour. The red cricketball supermarket tomato is tasteless because of its genes, not because of how they grow them. A grower I shared them with here says his family laugh at how tasteless they are next to real tomatoes. Glad I've sorted that out. And they haven't really proved to be any more resilient than the best performing traditionals. T
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Post by justness on Mar 5, 2013 17:50:26 GMT -5
richardw.. wooow, fancy smensi tomatoes ... mmm, Yummy in my appetite ... hehehe:)
its prior written list, I increased for another 50 new varieties, and I hope to
a year and have this lovely green. More orient themselves to earlier vintage and not
I'm not a fan of hybrids. God, drool on this green tomatoes ... huh
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