Tomato to avoid

[Botany]

Golden Chello ..... yellow cherry tomato :shrug:



produces early but just so so taste and not a very vigorous plant

why didn't I plant a Sungold or a Sweet One Million?

BTW thanx to the DUer who suggested mortgage lifter ..... huge ass fruit
2 to 3 pound fruit :wow:

[elleng]

1. Why avoid? Lack of vigor?

[Botany]

2. lack of vigor and so so taste

sungold is so much better

[beac]

3. I planted Sungold for the first time this year. First fruits just getting full size.

Can't wait until they ripen! :bounce:

[wildeyed]

4. Yellow pear is good too.

Heirloom vine, big producer and yummy fruits.

[Botany]

5. thanx I am growing Lemon Boy for my yellow tomato this year .... I have ..

..... always had good luck w/ them. The Chello Cherry tomato was my eat them while in the
garden cherry tomato ...... Sungolds, and sweet 1 millions were always good .... Chellos :shrug:

I will look for yellow pear next year ...... my brandywines are just about ready :9



Cherokee purple and jet stars are next

[Denninmi]

6. Yellow Pear = Yellow Blech IMO!

Pretty and productive but entirely flavorless -- like eating moistened kleenex.

[wildeyed]

7. I dunno, the ones I just had were yummy.

:shrug: I used to grow sungolds too, but now only have the yellow pear.

[wildeyed]

8. Mmmmm! Brandywine!

I don't have those this year. I didn't get around to starting my own in time and couldn't find seedlings. Instead I got German Johnsons which might be better suited to my hot, humid southern summers. Will see if they are as tasty, I have a few almost ready to go.

[WolverineDG]

9. My German Johnson was a complete dud

no fruit at all & fried once the temps got too high. I had much better luck with an Early Girl, until it too fried in the heat. :cry: Still have 7 Rutgers growing, some luck with getting tomatoes from them & they were good. Now I'm focused on keeping them alive until it cools down in September.

dg

[wildeyed]

10. You are hotter in TX than here in NC.

I think some of the TX people here grow under partial shade cloth in the summer to keep the vines from getting fried. My GJ is covered with huge green fruit. I have one that should be ready for my 4th cook out! I have a few better boy this year. I thought I was buying better bush, but I ended up with the indeterminate variety. A small, well behaved vine that has been impervious to the various cruds that my heirloom vines have had this year. If the fruit taste ok, I will do those again next year. Have had early girls in the past and they were ok too. The modern varieties are much easier to grow, but they don't come close to the old-timey types in flavor.

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Hi! Where in NC? We sell tomato seedlings in the triangle area

Got a huge tomato collection - a few thousand varieties! We offer about 100 every year.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. As far as yellow tomatoes go, I'm a fan of Heritage Tomatoes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. I've grown hundreds of different heirlooms. I only plant one hybrid every year - Sungold!

Can't do with out them....

The three Cherokees (Purple, Chocolate, Green) were the only three larger fruited varieties that thrived in last year's incredibly difficult summer in Raleigh.

[WhiteTara]

13. I was really disappointed in Purple Cherokee

very so so.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Where did you get it from? There is mixed stock out there

(since I was the one who named it and got it into circulation, I am very aware of the fact that there is quite a lot of not-Cherokee Purple out there - but that holds true for many of the heirlooms. Lots of crossed or mislabled or mixed up seed is out there).

Was it flavor, yield, size, etc - and where are you growing it?