I planted some Super Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. bleh The flavor is okay but they have a horrible mealy mouth feel.
I had that same thing happen with the only super 100 plants that I grew, way back, if not 80s, then the early 90s. I see people touting the super 100s all the time, but I was not happy with the flavor or the texture, that one time, so I never tried it again. Now I know they haven't changed.
I knew I had posted my "nots" elsewhere, but I figured I'd copy it here, so they are in the right place, with all the other nots!
Yellow Warren - while the first ripe cherry, and good flavor, the plant is dead now, after the branches died off after ripening. Didn't seem like a disease, more like the branches just dying after ripening, and it stopped growing.
Amy's Sugar Gem - a largish cherry tomato, 1-1¼", that was the last one to ripen, but after about a dozen ripened, almost every tomato got BER, which almost never happens with cherries! In the same SIP next to it a other variety -
Tropical Sunset - did not get a single one with BER. However, that's also not a keeper, as it's not as productive as many, and was the only one to get splitting this season. Not as good a flavor as Sunrise, either.
Nyagous - the only black I grew, and actually produced a lot, but not great flavor, and almost every fruit had splits, not as deep as many blacks I've had, but still split.
Red Grape - not great flavor, and was prone to BER, which is twice this year for small varieties! Normally, that doesn't happen. And not one BER in Green Grape in the same SIP. I'll go back to
Sprite.
Green Grape - OK flavor, but late ripening, and very dense and low growing plant, despite my pinching off suckers.
Spears TN Green - Good flavor, but misshapen fruits, that had to have a lot trimmed out of them. Also the last large fruit to ripen.
Talladega - very late; not bad flavor, but very few tomatoes
Dad's Sunset - eventually pulled plant. Don't know if a single one came out w/o BER, while no problem with the Big Beef in the same SIP.
As for eggplants,
Green Knight is definitely a no, and is already pulled. There were a bunch of clusters, like a cherry tomato! I couldn't thin it enough - I have never seen one like that before.
As for the Burpee Behold, that seemed ok, until it showed, as with many eggplants, it was not heat resistant, and stopped producing, and the ones it started producing, once cooler weather came back,were very seedy, even when picked small. I still don't seem to be getting any of the good fruits, like the early ones.
Those Long Valor Hyacinth bean might be a not, because of the weird thing that happened, with all the leaves turning yellow, then dropping - something related to length of day. Now that the days are getting shorter, I see it is flowering, and forming leaves on the same plants! So maybe I'll try them again, later in the season?
No "nots" for my new peppers, but that figures, doesn't it?