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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 8, 2018 18:40:31 GMT -5
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Post by guruofgardens on Mar 8, 2018 20:57:03 GMT -5
Haven't totally decided on the final list of tomatoes as I have dwarf varieties to choose yet and a couple more beefsteaks.
Some are new, most re-runs.
African Queen Brutus Dana’s Dusky Rose Daniel Burson Dikaya Roza Gallego Gardener’s Sweetheart German Queen Grosse Serge Lavender Lake Morado de Fitero Negrillo de Almoguera Olive Hill Owen’s Purple Pink Pioneer Pink Princess Rose Quartz Ruby Surprise
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Post by Gianna on Mar 12, 2018 23:46:08 GMT -5
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 13, 2018 10:34:30 GMT -5
Wow. How do people get away with that kind of thing?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 13, 2018 11:33:06 GMT -5
I'd guess because so few people grow up on (or near) farms and gardens any more. They have no idea what's possible and what's fantasy when it comes to vegetables.
What saddens me the most is the idea of people getting suckered by this sort of thing and then getting discouraged from gardening when their results are disappointing.
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Post by tomike on Mar 13, 2018 14:11:15 GMT -5
Wow. How do people get away with that kind of thing? I agree..... How do people get away with that kind of thing ?
I it looks too GOOD to be TRUE...... It is.......
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 14, 2018 8:14:19 GMT -5
Well, I'd say if they don't grow potatoes from the roots, that they aren't worth spending the money on!
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Post by bestofour on Mar 14, 2018 13:03:52 GMT -5
Someone put a review that it's a fake product so hopefully before people buy they'll read the review.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 15, 2018 9:59:36 GMT -5
Someone already had the same idea, bestofour. There's a 1-star review pointing out that it's fake.
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Post by bestofour on Mar 15, 2018 13:52:19 GMT -5
That's what I meant Laura_in_FL,I had read the review that the person left. Guess I didn't word my post correctly
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 16, 2018 8:18:57 GMT -5
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were requesting one of us to place a review, not noting that someone had already done so. Totally my mistake. (See, daylilydude, I told you I would have plenty of use for that emoji!)
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Post by Gianna on Mar 16, 2018 9:52:49 GMT -5
There are now two negative reviews about those fake tomatoes. I'd guess both were from people here since they are dated Mar 13 and 16. Kudos.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 16, 2018 10:25:46 GMT -5
There's a sucker born every minute.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jun 4, 2018 10:02:18 GMT -5
paulf, Hey, I was wondering how your hearts were doing this year. The only heart I have this year is Thessaloniki. My other favorite (Joe's Pink) didn't germinate so I just rolled on with what I had.
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Post by paulf on Jun 4, 2018 11:07:11 GMT -5
All my varieties are in the ground and growing. Several now have blossoms. Fruiting will begin in another three weeks or so and ripening will occur in late July or early August. I need patience when reading about all the ripe tomatoes in the southern gardens.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jun 4, 2018 14:20:16 GMT -5
All my varieties are in the ground and growing. Several now have blossoms. Fruiting will begin in another three weeks or so and ripening will occur in late July or early August. I need patience when reading about all the ripe tomatoes in the southern gardens. Keep us up to date. I'm interested in your heart variety comparison.
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Post by spike on Jun 4, 2018 17:35:37 GMT -5
Someone put a review that it's a fake product so hopefully before people buy they'll read the review. NOOOO!!! Did you see the watermelon? I really wanted the watermelon lol O.o
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Post by bestofour on Jun 4, 2018 22:37:10 GMT -5
spike, did you check out the blue strawberries? They're so pretty.
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nbardo
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Post by nbardo on Jun 5, 2018 15:21:54 GMT -5
I might be a little late to the party but here’s what I have growing this year.
Heirlooms/OP Indeterminate: Bisignano #2 Bordovyi Brandywine (Sudduth) Cherokee Green Cherokee Purple Lil’s Favorite Lillian’s Red Kansas Paste Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom Mexico Midget Tiger Tom Tres Cantos
Dwarf: Confetti Saucy Mary
F1: Better Boy Sungold
I read Craig Lehoullier’s Epic Tomatoes book right before it was time to order seeds, so I’m growing many of the varieties he wrote about.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 5, 2018 16:27:46 GMT -5
nbardo, Cherokee green! Cherokee purple is my favorite tomato never tasted the green.
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Post by september on Jun 6, 2018 9:20:10 GMT -5
Welcome to the board, nbardo! Nice to have you here, what part of the country do you garden in? You've picked a bunch of great tasting tomatoes. And Craig's book is the best out there for useful current info.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 6, 2018 10:18:56 GMT -5
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 29, 2018 12:22:30 GMT -5
Here's something that I started doing again a couple of nights ago, after hearing about this heat wave I am in for: buzzing the blossoms. Usually I do this early on, to set a bunch of blossoms as soon as possible, but eventually, there are so many blossoms and tomatoes out there that I stop doing it. I figured now that this heat is heading here, I would try to set as many of those blossoms as possible, before a bunch drop off, due to the heat.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 29, 2018 12:41:46 GMT -5
Buzzing definitely helps with setting tomatoes in the heat. I have done it with good success when the temperatures and humidity are borderline too high.
But once the humidity gets consistently too high, nothing will make the blossoms set, because the pollen isn't viable. Hopefully you aren't going to get that much humidity.
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nbardo
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Post by nbardo on Jun 29, 2018 13:42:55 GMT -5
Welcome to the board, nbardo! Nice to have you here, what part of the country do you garden in? You've picked a bunch of great tasting tomatoes. And Craig's book is the best out there for useful current info. Im in the St. Louis MO area. I think Its technically zone 6b? The weather varies a lot here but its basically a warmer midwestern type climate. 4 distinct seasons with a hot and humid summer. Last frost can be any time in april, and first frost is usually end of october or beginning of november. I planted my in ground plants on april 22nd this year.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 29, 2018 14:22:25 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL Not supposed to get too humid until Sun., when it's also supposed to get to 99°. This is why I thought about doing this a few days ago. Once this horrible weather gets here, I'll just have to wait, and see if any of the blossoms survive. Usually, in my area, it takes several days in a row in the high 90s to cause the blossom drops. Time will tell...
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 9, 2018 0:05:20 GMT -5
Today, I did a taste test, with the few tomatoes I have ripening, so far. I got several larger ones (Burracker's Favorite, Pretty in Pink, and 2 from the unknown"KBX"), but they aren't quite ready yet, they'll have to wait until totally ripe. Sweet Treats cherry was our favorite, with a balanced, delicious tomato flavor, with some sweetness, but not that much (have grown for 2 years, and wondered about the name from the beginning). Not quite as strong as the next one, but more balance. Sunset Falls is a small, maybe 2 oz determinate red/orange striped variety that was our second favorite, with a strong tomato flavor, not very sweet or tart, with that "grassy" like flavor that comes on late, and a lingering aftertaste like that. Huge numbers of fruits on the one plant; since it's determinate, if I want to grow it again, maybe it will be in succession plantings. Green Tiger, an elongated, 1 oz variety, striped like green zebra, was the one I had the most of, and was good, as always, but it's another of those things that tasted milder, after trying the stronger tasting tomato, the Sunset Falls, this time. It was more tart than the others, which is why I use it so much in those lentil salads every year. Sunsugar As always, a tomato more for just popping, with intense sweetness, but it's still got more tomato flavor than some sweet varieties I've grown in the past. Giant Garden Paste The only larger one I had that was totally ripe. Strange, as it was juicy, and not at all hollowed out, as I expected. The flavor was good, and balanced, but the mildest of all of them, for sure. And the one most prone to BER, so probably not a keeper, unless something changes. I found another tomato that is NOT whet the seed envelope says - PORTER. This is a variety I got years ago from Laura_in_FL, and it is an elongated, maybe 2 oz tomato, but the tomatoes on this plant are larger, and not at all elongated. So I have 2 Jane Does!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 9, 2018 12:27:40 GMT -5
The tomatoes on my Porter plant were true to the description. So, it sounds like a busy bee visited my Porter plant and you grew an F1. I hope that your Jane Doe is a "happy accident" at least!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 9, 2018 12:49:18 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL It wasn't yours that aren't true - it's some I bought this year. I was remembering the ones I got from you, that were the original porters. I can tell you, both of the Jane Doe varieties this year are loaded, and that one large one is ripening already. I'll find out how they taste.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 10, 2018 22:57:40 GMT -5
I have at least 10 varieties of larger tomatoes showing some ripening, when I looked today. And here the two I picked yesterday, 1 Jane Doe on the left (looks like it's ripening pink, not red), and 2 pink oxheart. The oxhearts are much earlier than types of oxhearts I have grown before, and they are a very meaty tomato, (8-10 oz, so far, but I see some large ones) with not much juice, so it surprised me when I found out how flavorful they were. Well rounded flavor, with that grassy aftertaste, from chewing on the last of the skin. DSCF0871 by pepperhead212, on Flickr I had a large piece of one of my dwarf plants ripped off - too much to save, unfortunately, but only 3 green tomatoes on it. So I made sure that I tied the rest up, if anything looked like it could be pulled off. Problem was, I had not been able to weave those through the trellis very well, due to the size of the leaves, and stiffness of the branches.
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