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14 years ago

Here's what I'm "down" to...

Growouts:

CBX209: Cherokee Purple x Bradley. This F2 seed produces large crops of 5 � 8 ounce, smooth, slightly flattened globes with sweet, mellow flavor. This seed has proven itself in Alabama and Mississippi with laudable results. Make your own selections toward an indeterminate, semi-indeterminate, or determinate variety.

Big Cheef F6 is an example of a superior tomato variety stabilized from an original mystery cross of Brandywine Sudduth and an unknown green flesh tomato in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

GCXPL09: Potato leaf vine ultra-productive of medium sized, fasciated, lumpy, red fleshed, sweet salad tomato with sufficient zip to taste old-fashioned. Mystery cross found in pack of Golden Cherokee seeds in 2009

CL310Y: Golden Cherokee x GWR. This F3 seed throws both clear yellow and clear green-when-ripe recombination, both with a slight pink blush on the blossom end during warmer weather

MOX311S: This seed, grown in 2011, is the F3 line of Mozark x Sioux as selected from semi-indeterminate plants that showed strong and continual production of near perfect, blemish free, red slicer/canners with an excellent, balanced flavor and very tight blossom scars. Ripened in Zone 6b at 120 days from seed or about 65 � 70 days from transplant.

BCM-311: This F3 seed is another recombining sister line to Big Cheef exhibiting jumbo size maroon fruit with superior flavor and heat setting capabilities.

GGYS-PL: The cross of Green Giant x Yellow Submarine has yielded several interesting and tasty recombinations in the F2, F3 and F4 generations.

Reverend Michael Keyes - Sweet Beverly x Black plum f2

(Lucky Cross x Big Beef) x Black Cherry f2

Ananas Noire x Purple Haze f1

Big Beef x Indian Stripe f2

Kozula #125 Czarna Zebra

Brandy Boy f6

White:

Fantome du Laos "I�m impressed with this white tomato. It is very productive, and though mild tasting, it is by no means flavorless. I found them having a very pleasant fruit flavor, and I would choose to grow them again before some other pink or reds I have grown. The color stays very light. Some of the fruit develop a pink blush on the bottom, but not all, so don�t use that as an indicator of ripeness."

Yellow:

Micro Gemma

Vova Yellow

Yellow Cookie

Yellow Pear (4 sister)

Golden Giant

Blue:

Blue Tears

Searching for the Blue Zebra

Dancing With Smurfs

Indigo Rose

Heart shaped:

Russian Bull Heart

Belgian Heart

Everette's Rusty Oxheart

Dawson's Russian Oxheart (aka Orange Russian 117)

Black purple:

Big Cheef

Pork Chop

Black Giant

Russian Cossack

Black Bear

Italian Noire

Bicolor:

Gold Medal

Isis Candy

Virginia Sweets

Orange:

Orange Minsk

Red:

Big Beef f1

Dixiewine (aka Brandywine x Neves Azorean Red)

Illinois Beauty

Istra

Micro Tom

Roma (4 sale)

Pink:

Monk

Olive Hill

Purple Passion

Rose Quartz Multiflora

Sabre

Green:

Green Giant

Green Zebra (4 sister)

Unknown/uncategorized:

"no name but looks like a squash/pumpkin"

Virginia Volunteer

Any ideas on what can go? I'd like to cull about ten.

Comments (7)

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    My take on this slanted in part because I only have space for twenty indeterminate plants. If you have unlimited space and time, curiosity then I guess you could grow them all. Most of the varieties on your list I have never heard of. With my limited space I only have room for stable varieties. That way I know how they are going to grow and what fruit they are going to produce.

    I will leave the playing around with genetics to the true tomato nerds with tons of space. I don't have time or space to grow any duds. Planting un-stabilized crosses is a crap shoot and I don't have space or time for any crap.

    If I were going to cut anything out it would be some of those crosses and anything else that may not grow true. If I had more space there might be one or two I would be tempted to try but I sure would not have a garden full of them.

    Just my .02 cents.

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    JMO but of the ones I know I would skip the Micro Tom, Green Zebra, the white, Yellow Pear (tell sister there are much better ones), the Micro Gemma, Pork Chop and Olive Hill. Haven't been impressed with any of them here.

    Dave

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Yellow Pear (tell sister there are much better ones)

    I haven't eaten or grown these, but they're on one of my lists:

    Yellow Submarine is available from Tatiana's and Gleckler.

    Yellow Pear Shaped: I can't find a vendor. Tatiana's doesn't list it at all.

    Ildi, available from Tomato Growers Supply, is a yellow grape rather than a pear.

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I grew Yellow Pear two years ago. It was highly productive. Made tons and tons of the prettiest, BLANDEST tasting tomatoes you ever saw. I pulled it out and planted something else after about three pickings.

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    croos off the whites and the yellows there done

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Thanks for the input!

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Some of that was disheartening, but I needed to hear it. I told my sister the same thing about yellow pear, but she insists... Pork Chop and Olive Hill - that was hard to hear, because those are two I was really looking forward to, but I'm taking it under advisement. My interest in Microtom is only for breeding purposes - I'd like to get a great favored heirloom in a small package, eventually. I may skip it and just go with its reportedly better-tasting yellow sister, Micro Gemma. And as curious as I am, that is too many desegregating hybrids to keep track of... Some of the yellows are getting a few years on them, and I just wanted to increase and refresh seed; maybe the younger ones can wait their turn. You all have been very helpful in trimming this year's list. Thanks again for lending me your perspectives!

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