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Post by daylilydude on Feb 27, 2014 5:43:56 GMT -5
Lets hear your likes and dis-likes on this tomato.
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Post by timothyt on Feb 27, 2014 16:01:33 GMT -5
Likes: good size, good texture, great flavor(unless over watered or wet season), one of my favorite large fruited orange maters along with the original Kellogg's Breakfast. Dis-likes: not consistent production year to year, not a good high heat/humidity setter. Overall: Like Kellogg's Breakfast, when "it's On, it's On" and hard to beat for flavor in the orange category and can occassionally be very productive. But for my growing conditions Orange Minsk matches in flavor, is earlier, far more productive, more disease tolerant, handles the heat and humidity better, and more consistent.
TimothyT
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Post by paulf on Feb 27, 2014 17:24:40 GMT -5
I received KBX seeds from Martha Hufford, the finder of the potato leaf version of Kellogg's Breakfast. I first grew KBX when we lived in central Iowa and have continued here in the drier and hotter eastern Nebraska. Not having grown an orange tomato before Kellogg's Breakfast, it became an instant favorite because of its size, unique flavor which included its sweetness and fruitylike (is that a word?) and for me , its consistency (one Tim's dislikes).
I have done several side-by-side tests of KB and KBX and have not seen any real differences between the two except for the leaf. After all these years I still list KBX and KB as one of my all time favorites.....but for some unknown reason I like potato leaf plants better than regulars.
Thank you Martha.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 27, 2014 23:37:30 GMT -5
Great size and flavor, but not very productive for me, as they dropped their blossoms when temps got in the high 90s - a major problem for me. Also very prone to splitting in the last two wet summers I had.
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Post by stratcat on Feb 28, 2014 21:22:05 GMT -5
In 2008, I got KBX seed from gardenmama, too. Great tasting tomato that I have to grow every year. I couldn't tell any difference between KBX and Kellogg's Breakfast. One of my favorites, and being a potato leaf, makes it even better. Some years it doesn't set much fruit, but I'm not letting that stop me whatsoever.
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Post by paulf on Mar 1, 2014 8:50:43 GMT -5
As a side note, about three years ago Darrell Kellogg wrote me asking for some KBX seeds because he had heard about the potato leaf version of "his" tomato (my word, not his) and wanted to give it a try. I think he was in his nineties but still grew tomatoes apparently. I never did hear back what he thought.
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