Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Aug 9, 2016 15:20:13 GMT -5
I guess i'll post now that i have a few pictures. This was supposed to be the year of my big tomato growout and to some degree it has been. But many of the varieties i had looked forward to trying died in the seedling stage before i got a chance to plant them out. Perhaps i just didn't harden them off right and/or started them too early without the right sunlight. Many of the rest are growing but slowly and have not produced fruit yet. A few of the larger plants are succumbing to some disease and are dying. Copia was the first one to get it. No big loss though because i'm try to find the ones that grow best for me in my soil, climate, and my awful growing techniques.
Sadly i think HX-9 is still alive but never seemed to grow. I have two plants that are labeled wild-5 or annanas noir as i got confused at one point. The fruits on those look more like cherry sized tomatoes with stripes, but they are still green. The plants are growing well. I think the other one Joseph sent i accidentally killed off in the seedling stage. But i think i have plenty of seed of all three to try again next year.
So far the best one (and a rather tasty one) is the one called 'Anasazi' that i made a special trip down to Boulder Colorado to get. It was reported as being a red/purple/black Saladette sized tomato that was tied for second in taste with Pineapple having 33 votes and only sungold being rated higher. It was also entered in the contest with the rumor that it originated in an Anasazi ruin, hence the name. Whether or not the history of it is true, the description of it and the high number of votes, plus the reported easiness of growing it in Boulder (a similar climate to mine) had me excited to get it and add it as a special one to trial this year.
It is a really nice medium-small sized tomato that i guess you might call as brownish-red when ripe. It has the green shoulders gene. It has a really complex delicious flavor. Way better than any red tomato by far, especially store-bought tomato. It is growing so well and so tempting in flavor that the mice are taking bites out of half of them before we do. They are going to great lengths to climb up the plants to eat them despite having plenty of rotting fruits in the compost bin. That is how good they are in my opinion. This one is a keeper and i think i will grow it from now on. The part i love best about it is actually the high meat to low seed cavity ratio. For such a small tomato it has a rather small seed cavity and lots of meat to it.
www.harlequinsgardens.com/plants/edibles/vegetables/third-annual-taste-of-tomato-voting-results/
www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.harlequinsgardens.com%2F+anasazi
Sadly i think HX-9 is still alive but never seemed to grow. I have two plants that are labeled wild-5 or annanas noir as i got confused at one point. The fruits on those look more like cherry sized tomatoes with stripes, but they are still green. The plants are growing well. I think the other one Joseph sent i accidentally killed off in the seedling stage. But i think i have plenty of seed of all three to try again next year.
So far the best one (and a rather tasty one) is the one called 'Anasazi' that i made a special trip down to Boulder Colorado to get. It was reported as being a red/purple/black Saladette sized tomato that was tied for second in taste with Pineapple having 33 votes and only sungold being rated higher. It was also entered in the contest with the rumor that it originated in an Anasazi ruin, hence the name. Whether or not the history of it is true, the description of it and the high number of votes, plus the reported easiness of growing it in Boulder (a similar climate to mine) had me excited to get it and add it as a special one to trial this year.
It is a really nice medium-small sized tomato that i guess you might call as brownish-red when ripe. It has the green shoulders gene. It has a really complex delicious flavor. Way better than any red tomato by far, especially store-bought tomato. It is growing so well and so tempting in flavor that the mice are taking bites out of half of them before we do. They are going to great lengths to climb up the plants to eat them despite having plenty of rotting fruits in the compost bin. That is how good they are in my opinion. This one is a keeper and i think i will grow it from now on. The part i love best about it is actually the high meat to low seed cavity ratio. For such a small tomato it has a rather small seed cavity and lots of meat to it.
www.harlequinsgardens.com/plants/edibles/vegetables/third-annual-taste-of-tomato-voting-results/
www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.harlequinsgardens.com%2F+anasazi
