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Post by daylilydude on Dec 29, 2016 4:54:19 GMT -5
Now I know there would be long list of these for some of you but, I just want to know which tomato is at the top of your list and why? That's right i'm just wanting to know your one favorite tomato, the one that you grow every year regardless if you plant any others?
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Post by paulf on Dec 29, 2016 9:26:16 GMT -5
Dude, that is crazy. Which of my children or grandchildren do I love most? This one will take some thinking because every year my favorite seems to change. I need to review the answer to this question over the past several years, ruminate a while and get back to this thread.
Listed from 1999, the first year I grew 'real' tomatoes are that year's first place flavor winner. If the runners up were considered, the list would be different with some varieties most likely not grown by most folks. From 1999 on: Caspian Pink, Cherokee Purple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Brandywine (Sudduth), Marianna's Peace, Crnkovic Yugoslavian, Caspian Pink, Stump of the World, Wes, Butter and Bull Heart, Neve's Azores Red, Kellogg's Breakfast, Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad, Tsar Kolokol, Joe's Pink Oxheart, Hungarian Heart, Kolb, Mortgage Lifter.
No cherries or salads or pastes. Very few of those are grown. My wife likes Black Cherry and Ambrosia Red
As my tastes have changed, hearts are more in my favorites. I tend to like sweet tomatoes as indicated on the list. As for more acid tomatoes, Old Brooks is a winner.
After thinking about the list, my wife says she likes the big, pink heart the has few seeds and is very meaty. Sounds like maybe twenty hearts we have grown, so I will leave it at that. So let's go with Fish Lake Oxheart even though it never made it to a year's winner, it has been among the best consistently. Kellogg's Breakfast/KBX would be the orange choice, Cherokee Purple and Carbon the black. See, I can't just choose one.
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Post by september on Dec 30, 2016 0:13:58 GMT -5
Stupice, only because it is early and first to ripen for me every year. All the bigger, better tasting tomatoes are at least two weeks later, a big deal in my short growing season. If I could grow only one, I would choose something else with a Wow flavor factor, but Stupice has to come back every year no matter what other tomatoes I grow.
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Post by horsea on Dec 30, 2016 2:02:15 GMT -5
Black from Tula. No, I don't grow it every year, but almost every year. Only so much room in the garden and I like trying new varieties.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 30, 2016 9:59:03 GMT -5
I haven't been able to find a large variety that I have grown every year, but sunsugar is out there in the cherries every year, since some time in the 80s.
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Post by spacecase0 on Dec 30, 2016 20:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by september on Dec 31, 2016 20:40:55 GMT -5
It's probably not just you! Neither my husband or son will willingly eat fresh tomatoes, so they think they all taste bad! My son thinks they have a slimy texture. Nothing I can say will convince them that tomatoes are delicious. Oh, well.
I can taste many differences among the tomatoes I have grown. A few have been sour spitters, the best have a complex flavor that has both sweet and acid components and some have a fruity note, like Sungold F1. If you slice and taste a red, a yellow, a black, and a green when ripe, all of them should have different basic flavors. Of course not everyone's taste buds have the same sensitivity to given compounds, nor do our brains evaluate the perception the same. I have a hard time telling any difference in coffee beans from different countries (which coffee lovers enthuse over.) To me, it's either good coffee or bad coffee.
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 1, 2017 5:04:25 GMT -5
Well i'll just say that I don't care for raw tomatoes they all taste nasty, but now that might change now that I have quit smoking... they may taste good and then again they may be worse ... don't know, so i'm waiting for the new gardening season to try them 1 more time in a raw state just to see.
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Post by september on Jan 1, 2017 12:20:07 GMT -5
What Richard? Not even on a BLT sandwich? - the bacon should be a big inducement!
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Post by horsea on Jan 3, 2017 14:07:19 GMT -5
Well i'll just say that I don't care for raw tomatoes they all taste nasty, but now that might change now that I have quit smoking... they may taste good and then again they may be worse ... don't know, so i'm waiting for the new gardening season to try them 1 more time in a raw state just to see. Here's what I read: tobacco and tomatoes both belong to the nightshade family; they both contain a certain substance that only nightshades have. So, maybe, if a person has contact with tobacco everyday (smoking, for example), then when he eats tomatoes, his body has reached a saturation point where this substance is concerned. This point would be different for everyone. So, just suggesting, if you stop with the smoking, you might now be able to eat raw toms. You may ask, well, how come I can still eat cooked tomatoes? I recall reading somewhere that cooking denatures that substance. Just repeating what I read years ago.
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Post by coppice on Jan 4, 2017 5:05:58 GMT -5
There are a dozen odd tomato that get grown out by my every year. But, seeing as I am only growing two cultivars these days, there is no one, that gets a yearly grow out.
If I was going to try and herd this particular cat, I guess a cherry tomato of one kind or another sits at the top of my list.
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Post by horsea on Jan 4, 2017 10:06:46 GMT -5
f I was going to try and herd this particular cat, I guess a cherry tomato of one kind or another sits at the top of my list. Nothing finer than Matt's Wild Cherry. Too bad it spreads 20 feet in every direction and takes over the whole garden, tho.
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Post by coppice on Jan 6, 2017 4:08:09 GMT -5
I was very devoted to growing some kind of beefsteak for a longish time as grist for tomato sandwich urge. That has wained somewhat in recent years.
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 7, 2017 4:53:30 GMT -5
What Richard? Not even on a BLT sandwich? - the bacon should be a big inducement! No mam... If I got a BLT... the mater was coming off, but it wasn't wasted as my wife would slap me stupid if I didn't give it to her...LOLOLOL!!
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Post by tjlance on Jan 30, 2017 12:42:42 GMT -5
As a smoker, I can say that it has not changed the way tomatoes taste to me. Different tomatoes have different flavors. Some are sweet, some have a citrus flavor to them. Some have more seeds and gel that surrounds them which affects the texture. I'd have to say that the Brandywines are my favorite, along with Black Russian a close second.
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 1, 2017 5:04:13 GMT -5
Welcome to our little gardening forum tjlance, hope you enjoy it enough to hang around and post in other categories we have here... so, your saying as a smoker you can still taste the different taste in tomatoes?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 19:34:23 GMT -5
cleota pink
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Post by bestofour on May 5, 2017 22:31:10 GMT -5
Well i'll just say that I don't care for raw tomatoes they all taste nasty, but now that might change now that I have quit smoking... they may taste good and then again they may be worse ... don't know, so i'm waiting for the new gardening season to try them 1 more time in a raw state just to see. Bet you're gonna just LOVE okra now too.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 6, 2017 0:01:55 GMT -5
LOL, bestofour! @graybell, Cleota Pink is a very good tomato, and it was very productive for me. My main complaint with that variety was that mine had large, hard, irregular cores. It made slicing the tomatoes into a sort of surgery. I always felt like I wasted a lot of the tomatoes while cutting out the cores. Since you like the "big pink beefsteak" flavor profile, you might want to try Terhune (great) or Rebel Yell (my all-time favorite tasting tomato). Both of them have a similar flavor profile to Cleota Pink, but have smaller cores.
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