directsunlight
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Posts: 23
Zone:: 8a
Favorite Vegetable:: artichoke
Joined: September 2021
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Post by directsunlight on Sept 28, 2021 21:40:42 GMT -5
Hi I believe this is a newer variety. Got some seeds at HEB (Texas Grocery store) on a whim. The selling point was disease resistance. Well once started in March just about everything that could mess up tomatoes and peppers happened. Multiple late spring frosts, excessive rain, heavy wind that blew the sunflowers sideways. This one outproduced all the other tomatoes I tried, and was the best-tasting cherry also. It withstood cold better than any of the other tomatoes too. They are nickel sized, aren't overly juicy, and have a slightly tangy taste. Picked what is probably the last of them yesterday.
Trying to revive this thread, as I was late to the party here. Anybody else try them?
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Post by spike on Sept 29, 2021 6:55:34 GMT -5
Sound yummy! I have never heard of them.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 29, 2021 10:54:20 GMT -5
Nope, I have never heard of them. They sound intriguing, though.
How is their split/crack resistance when it rains?
Also, when they do go bad, do they tend to rot (burst and leak nasty juices) or shrivel?
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Post by september on Sept 29, 2021 11:09:51 GMT -5
I do remember hearing the name, but have never run across seeds or fruit. Here is what Tania's Tomatobase says about the origins :
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Post by octave1 on Sept 29, 2021 12:52:59 GMT -5
They have been around for a long time, but I never grew them. I may even have a packed buried deep in the seed stash. Chadwick Cherry Tomatoes are supposed to be very sturdy plants.
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directsunlight
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Post by directsunlight on Sept 29, 2021 22:20:16 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, I think it's some of both. When I was in town and able to get into the garden, it was mostly academic because I didn't let them go.
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directsunlight
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Zone:: 8a
Favorite Vegetable:: artichoke
Joined: September 2021
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Post by directsunlight on Sept 29, 2021 22:29:48 GMT -5
They have been around for a long time, but I never grew them. I may even have a packed buried deep in the seed stash. Chadwick Cherry Tomatoes are supposed to be very sturdy plants. OK I have to be wrong about their being a new variety. I didn't remember seeing them before this year. I am curious if they really are more resistant to cold nights or it was luck of placement etc. The most damaging freeze I had 37 tomatoes in the ground (it was the last week of March and about 10 days past the 50% frost date). Only 9 of them survived but all 4 of the Chadwick were among them. 3 of them were on the wetter, lower side of the garden, but the 4th was on the other side and surrounded by dead tomato plants. There was a scattered frost somewhere around April 10, and another late April, and then a near miss May 2 (car was frozen over and half of the yard but the other half including the garden was not). The Chadwick tomatoes survived them all. Ones that fared badly included Glacier, whose only redeeming quality that I know of is its supposed ability to survive cold, and medium to large fruited tomatoes, Kellogg's breakfast lost all 3, Ukranian purple only 1 survived, etc.
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