The only ones of these I've raised are Costoluto Genovese and Vorlon. The CG is an accordianed type with only so so production and not much flavor the only year I raised it. It might be good for canning. I just wasn't impressed enough to raise it again. The Vorlon is a black with good productivity and great flavor in my garden both years I raised it. I will raise it again.

I only know one, the genovese. Grew it last season. I can confirm its reputation for being a bland tomato and a lot of trouble to can or process because of its ribbing. It was fun to grow as a novelty. Truly the taste isn't worth the trouble.

Bloody Butcher is very prolific. If you've ever grown Stupice, the fruit are about the same size and about as early or only slightly later. The flavor is decent enough, but I am not crazy about these. In the years I grew them, I merely gave the fruit away to friends, so I don't grow them any more.

Costoluto Genovese--not terribly productive, not very flavorful, not worth growing

Creole--was only okay when I grew it (several times). Did not produce well which surprised me because I thought it would thrive in our heat. The plant itself didn't mind the heat and seemed pretty tolerant of foliar diseases, but the fruit didn't set well in the heat.

Dana's Dusky Rose--very flavorful and fruit set is really early in my garden. I like this one a lot.

Earl's Faux--only produces well for me in a very cool summer, and I grew if for 4 or 5 years trying to make it produce heavily here for me like it does for some people in cooler climates. It just wouldn't do it. We likely get too hot too early for it. The flavor is great, but it really didn't produce that many fruit so I stopped growing it.

Herman's Special---I haven't grown this one

Japanese Black Trifele---the flavor is not bad, but it was a poor producer here in both a cool, wet growing season and a warmer, drier growing season. I tried to grow it for 3 or 4 years and just finally gave up. Was a total waste of space in my garden. It set and ripened maybe three or four fruit per year which just doesn't cut it.

Royal Hillbilly---I really like this one. The fruit has great flavor. It produces more heavily early in the season and then peters out pretty fast in the heat, so for me, this one only produces well in the years I can get it in the ground at the end of March, which gives it lots of time to set fruit before the real heat arrives in June.

Thank you, that's what I needed to pare down the list. I'm glad you liked Dana's Dusty Rose and Royal Hillbilly, they were ones I was really inclined toward. Probably the vorlon, too. I won't worry about the geonovese.

I'm growing Vorlon this year too. I may have grown it before, because I have some seed that is several years old, but I remember nothing about it. So, maybe I grew the transplants and they never made it into the ground or died or got eaten by a deer in our short fence years or something. I'm getting ready to go post my short grow list right now.