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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 7, 2020 10:49:53 GMT -5
The kids don't eat any fresh tomatoes, so they didn't try it. DH didn't like it, and I gave a few fruit to my garden helper Zach. He and his family didn't like it, either. I didn't have the heart to torture neighbors or extended family with them.
But several people on another garden forum rave about it.
I wonder if my plant is a fluke/cross, but the fruit and plant look exactly like they should.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 7, 2020 13:02:32 GMT -5
That obviously isn't just your taste buds, Laura_in_FL, when that many people had the same thought about it. It won't be long now, before I find out about mine.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 7, 2020 17:53:45 GMT -5
If you have a lot of a variety that you don't like, make sauce. Few Roma types have good taste but they make the best sauce. The spices take care of any tomato taste anyway.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 9, 2020 10:33:25 GMT -5
Sure, you can turn bland tomatoes into decent sauce with enough cooking time and enough spices. But it wasn't just that they lacked flavor, Martin. They had an overpowering off-taste. I wasn't about to risk ruining a batch of sauce with that!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 9, 2020 11:21:48 GMT -5
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 12, 2020 16:36:20 GMT -5
I finally tried the Peachy Keen, and I did not like it, either. The flavor to my mouth wasn't bad, but the aroma while chewing it, and the aftertaste, reminds me of an unpleasant floral aroma - sort of like that curry tree, when it flowers! I only leave that to flower for the bees, as the smell is not pleasant. Never had that in a tomato before. I might try dehydrating - the aroma might dissipate, if I'm lucky.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 17, 2020 20:41:03 GMT -5
I erred in my advice. Finally have ripe tomatoes. It's a short cherry type, Petit Chocolate. When all else fails, most cherry types are at least good for juice. These miserable things are not good for anything! Hard as rocks and little juice. There's a decent taste buried in there somewhere but may be only in the tiny seed locules. For certain, it isn't anywhere else in it!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 17, 2020 20:49:31 GMT -5
(Duplicate.)
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 20, 2020 18:19:30 GMT -5
A friend tried one of those Peachy Keen tomatoes today, before I could stop him, so I asked him if he liked it, and he just said it was "ok", but didn't say he thought it had a bad flavor, even when pressed about it. Later, I put all of the ones I had in the dehydrator, halved, and I could smell that aroma on my hands. The tomatoes were almost like okra, with a slime on them, when I was cutting them in half to put on the rack. I never saw this on any other tomatoes!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 30, 2020 13:43:32 GMT -5
Weird. I didn't notice the "slime" on mine. Just the flavor.
I am glad that dehydrating them worked out for you so you can get some use out of them.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 30, 2020 18:38:20 GMT -5
I did harvest all of them a few days ago, and pulled the plant. It's also one of those determinate types that don't produce any more later - almost all of the leaves turned brown on the branches with ripe tomatoes. Definitely not a keeper. Too bad, as it was productive! All of the tomatoes from one Peachy Keen plant, 7-27 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 31, 2020 12:23:59 GMT -5
Oh, yeah - my Peachy Keen plant made a ton of those pretty little yellow tomatoes, too. It is extremely productive!
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Post by paquebot on Aug 6, 2020 13:36:28 GMT -5
Petit Chocolate didn't improve with age but did have a little taste, very little. Found one that's worse, Zomu. Somewhat prolific short determinate with 1½" fruit. Hard as a rock , plastic skin, and tasteless. It's strictly for pickling whole!
Martin
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Post by tallpines on May 15, 2021 10:05:52 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 15, 2021 11:00:10 GMT -5
No, I haven't tried those. They are cute, but what a fiddly job picking those and taking off the tiny sepals. I could only see growing those as a novelty, unless the flavor is out of this world.
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Post by paulf on May 15, 2021 13:40:02 GMT -5
Why waste space on tomatoes that are labor intensive and too small for anything useful? I figure tomatoes made into sauce are like computers; garbage in, garbage out. The tomatoes we grow for their taste is what we use to make sauce. No spitters allowed and they don't get more than one more chance to prove themselves. Too many good varieties, too little time left.
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Post by paquebot on May 15, 2021 15:22:10 GMT -5
That tomato is not Spoon. Instead it is a currant type which Spoon is not. I have grown a few of the currant type and nothing wrong with the taste of any of them. They are also close to the original wild varieties which are often pea-size.
Martin
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 15, 2021 15:30:05 GMT -5
Way too small to bother with - like growing chiltepin peppers! Only did that once, out of curiosity.
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