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Post by daylilydude on May 22, 2018 4:27:31 GMT -5
Does the different coloring of tomatoes throw off the taste for you?
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on May 22, 2018 4:41:20 GMT -5
No but it does for my family.
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Post by janr on May 22, 2018 7:18:57 GMT -5
No, I like the different colors.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 22, 2018 7:28:54 GMT -5
I gave my Sister and a friend of hers a couple of sacks full of Cherokee Purple last year. My Sister called me laughing later that day and said her friend thought they were rotten because they weren't red.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 22, 2018 7:31:03 GMT -5
Not at all. Some of my favorites are non-reds, but with some people, if it's not red, they turn their noses up.
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Post by ahntjudy on May 22, 2018 8:41:30 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone can guess the color/variety of a particular tomato if they taste it with their eyes closed?... ... I like the many varieties of colorful tomatoes...
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 22, 2018 9:13:43 GMT -5
I grow lots of colors, sizes and shapes. I don't have a closed mind on things. Some people miss a lot of stuff in life due to their way of thinking. I have a bunch of Cherry tomatoes in my Garden that I'm just waiting to taste.
Gold Krone, Lollipop, Iva's Red Berry, Snow White, Sweet Beverly, Yellow Submarine, Mystery Grape, Mystery Red, heck I can't even think of all them at the moment. Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy!! Munster Stomp!
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Post by brownrexx on May 22, 2018 9:17:19 GMT -5
I don't like the taste of raw tomatoes but I do love to see the different colors. Hubby says that he prefers red so that is what I mainly grow but I have grown a few others just for fun.
I did not like the color that the black one gave to sauce but they were pretty for raw ones. I am growing black cherry this year.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 22, 2018 9:27:37 GMT -5
I am growing black cherry this year. This is the first year in many years that I don't have a black cherry. My young plant died on me. I still have Chocolate Cherry and I hope it's close.
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Post by spike on May 22, 2018 9:41:15 GMT -5
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 22, 2018 10:00:51 GMT -5
spike, That's funny right there! I don't care who ya are.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 22, 2018 10:12:38 GMT -5
There do seem to be "trends" in tomato flavor that correlate with color, probably because you can actually taste the pigments. Yellows tend to be milder and often have fruity notes, Pinks tend to be a little brighter in flavor than reds, which tend to have more of a true tomato taste. Dark tomatoes tend to have a richer flavor and sometimes have smoky or salty flavor notes. But I doubt that you could reliably guess the color of tomatoes by their taste. For example, there are some strongly-flavored yellows out there that taste more like a typical pink. The flavors of pinks and reds overlap a lot. As do the flavors of reds and darks. Trying to tell color from taste would be educated guesswork. I love trying different colors of tomatoes, but there are a few colors I just don't find appetizing. Some of the olive and "copper" (orangey-brownish) colors just don't look tasty to me. Truly green when ripe tomatoes look unripe to me. Bicolors with green and another color can be pretty and appealing, though. Also, some of the green when ripe tomatoes that ripen to a yellowish hue are okay, too - as long as there is a discernible color change so I can convince myself that it's ripe. EDIT: spike, I'm sure you'd get tomatoes that look exactly like that picture if you bought those seeds. For sure.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on May 22, 2018 10:19:33 GMT -5
I gave my Sister and a friend of hers a couple of sacks full of Cherokee Purple last year. My Sister called me laughing later that day and said her friend thought they were rotten because they weren't red. I gave a boss a Cherokee Purple tomato. At the end of the summer she told me that she had to throw all of the Tomatoes away because they went straight from green to rotten.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 22, 2018 10:21:04 GMT -5
Oh, no!
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Post by september on May 22, 2018 10:24:23 GMT -5
That breaks my heart!
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Post by september on May 22, 2018 10:27:27 GMT -5
I never know who gets the extra tomato plants that my sister takes away with her, but I print up a sheet with names and descriptions and tell her to be sure to tell her friends that many are odd or experimental varieties that are not red. I rarely get any feed back, so not sure what they do, but they keep taking more plants the next year so I'm hopeful they like them.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 22, 2018 10:34:43 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone can guess the color/variety of a particular tomato if they taste it with their eyes closed?... ... I like the many varieties of colorful tomatoes... That sounds like a fun party game!
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 22, 2018 10:37:40 GMT -5
I love the rainbow of tomatoes in my garden! Though, I've not found too many with the blue pigment that I really like. But I grow a lot of the not red or pink tomatoes in my community garden plot, because then people don't really know when they are ripe. It's a theft deterrent- much like lining the border of my garden with a bunch of superhot peppers. People are only going to steal those once and never do it again. I tend to put the superhots and the Green When Ripe tomatoes along the outside edges for sure.
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Post by brownrexx on May 22, 2018 11:06:53 GMT -5
I tend to put the superhots and the Green When Ripe tomatoes along the outside edges for sure. Great idea!
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Post by meandtk on May 22, 2018 11:12:27 GMT -5
I have only grown red tomatoes, except for a chocolate and a striped. Sadly I've not been successful enough to this point to truly comment. I just got in from the garden though, and I saw many tomatoes growing. I'm hoping for a bountiful harvest this year; but they are all red. Maybe next year...
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Post by octave1 on May 22, 2018 11:26:18 GMT -5
To me all tomatoes are the same. I grow what looks interesting and productive. Some of the best tasting tomatoes are not red. Tangerine, Black Trifele and Black Cherry are among those.
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Post by paulf on May 22, 2018 11:47:47 GMT -5
I gave my Sister and a friend of hers a couple of sacks full of Cherokee Purple last year. My Sister called me laughing later that day and said her friend thought they were rotten because they weren't red. I gave a boss a Cherokee Purple tomato. At the end of the summer she told me that she had to throw all of the Tomatoes away because they went straight from green to rotten. My brother-in-law did the same thing with the Cherokee Purple plants I gave him. The perfect CPs ripened and he pulled up the plants because they only grew rotten fruit. I am not a fan of green when ripe. I have no idea why because every other color or combination of colors are OK.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on May 22, 2018 11:58:02 GMT -5
White Tomasol is the question mark this year. You are supposed to pick it when it just has a pink blush on the bottom. We shall see what Dad(I want them red from the bottom to the stem) thinks. He does like Black Cherry. I agree with him that most yellow tomatoes don't do well or we don't like them.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 22, 2018 13:19:20 GMT -5
White Tomasol is the question mark this year. You are supposed to pick it when it just has a pink blush on the bottom. We shall see what Dad(I want them red from the bottom to the stem) thinks. He does like Black Cherry. I agree with him that most yellow tomatoes don't do well or we don't like them. You should go more by feel than color for White Tomesol. In the right conditions they will develop that pale pink bottom, but not always. If the tomato has a little give it is ready to pick. You can tell the difference between the way a firm, unripe tomato feels if gently squeezed and a ripe tomato that has just begun to soften and swell with its juices.
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Post by octave1 on May 22, 2018 13:21:07 GMT -5
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Post by carolyn on May 22, 2018 20:26:57 GMT -5
I often tell people if you couldn't see it you would no idea what color it is. I tend to put the superhots and the Green When Ripe tomatoes along the outside edges for sure. so sneaky but awesome deterrent. thumbs up x1000. well done.
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Post by guruofgardens on May 22, 2018 23:28:51 GMT -5
I love the black/purple tomato flavors best, but usually grow all colors except for the GWR. Any color homegrown tomato is best.
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Post by paquebot on May 23, 2018 0:17:13 GMT -5
In most instances, it is impossible to claim that a red or yellow tastes better than the other. The only time that it can be done would be if the variety were the same with one or te other being a somatic change. For almost 15 years, I have been growing Wisconsin 55s, both red and yellow. In a blind taste test, one could never be able to detect any difference. I can't find it now but there was a list years ago giving the sugar and acid contents of many common varieties. The figures burst a lot of bubbles about supposed differences of yellow vs. red.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on May 23, 2018 7:15:28 GMT -5
I like the high sugar hearts and the blacks best. This year's garden has 22 blacks and 12 hearts. Martin is correct in my opinion: almost all tomatoes have pretty much the same pH, it is the sugar content that makes the difference. Called brix.
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