My Cherokee Purple volunteer bit the dust already - showed up in December so that could be part of the problem, heh. The plant it volunteered from last year only produced about 4 tomatoes (apparently I missed at least one!), so I'm not overly upset, although I had let the volunteer grow to see if it did any better. Maybe later, they're not getting a good reputation with me.

I decided to try Black Krim instead of CP, and put in two plants just in case. The foliage looks wonderful and they're growing like gangbusters, but only one small golf-ball sized fruit so far on two 5'ish tall plants while most of my other tomatoes are loaded. We'll see. On the upside, my Black Cherry is going insane and we're already eating them. That one will come back next year, definitely.

You'll have to give an update of which on your list you enjoyed the most at the end of the year so I can try out something next time that might work for me :)

We're running two and maybe three browns this year...Cherokee purple and chocolate cherry and an f2 wildcard from a mix of cp/stupice/evergreen. We've got baby fruit set in the choc and flowers on the cp. The f2 wildcard is way behind because I'm cruddy at starting from seed;) hopefully we'll get some flowers in the next few weeks from that one because it was a total standout last time we grew it.

You folks in zones 7-9 are way ahead of me. I'm growing CP, Black Krim and OSU

Blue this year. They have been in the ground about 2 weeks now and are coming along well.

John A

Of the blacks, I'm growing CP, Black Krim, JBT, Kumato and Black Zebra.

Way to go , folks. I like this.
Yeah, lets keep reporting back as the season progresses. I will definitely do that, as the OP of the thread.
I am pretty sure of my CPs performance, since this is the third year growing it. JBT, did ok last year. Not a workhorse but fruits compared to CP in taste.
Now Black from Tula, Arbuznyi , Brown Cherry and Kumato need to pass the test in order to return next season.
Anybody is growing Indian Stripe ? I have read so many positive reviews on it.

Thanks
Sey

CP First fruit set yesterday! Downside, is we just got our first triple digit forecast for late next week. No bueno

Growing Indian Stripe in the Okanogan River Valley. Other than my Sunsugar (cherry tom), it along with Opalka have my first fruit showing! It and BrandyBoy have the most blossoms.

Jw, where are you in E.WA?
A day or 2 of high temps should not be as bad. Try and shake the flowers to get pollinated before the heat wave. As long as they are pollinated (as much as possible) fruits will set and grow.

Nugrdnnut, it seems that we are in about the same fruit setting situation... lots of blossoms ...fruits setting and growth is pretty slow.. But I remain optimistic. One of the CP has 4 trusses, 2 blooming and 2 just buds. BfromT. is coming along ok. Once we pass the next 3 days of cool snap they should get to work.

Sey

I'm out in tri cities. Looks like our forecast shifted again but this time for the good..back down to low 90s at the end of the week. Phew!

Good to hear that. Let those blossoms have chance to get pollinated. Then heat is not going a problem. Also the highs last just for few hours around mid day then maybe 15 hours out of 24 temps should be fine for pollination, IFF the night lows are under 70F ?.
Alright. Let those dark color tomatoes grow. I can't wait to see the ripe ones. I know some of our friends dow south ( from FL to TX, AZ, CA.) already are harvesting. We should have our turn pretty soon. hehe

Sey