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Red Beauty

9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago

Has anyone else ever grown Red Beauty?

I'm growing it. I find it to be a fascinating tomato. It's bigger than Blue Beauty and Black Beauty (I'm growing those, too). It has stripes like Green Zebra (which is to say, very much more striped than the tomato in the picture I linked to appears to be—that's where I got my seeds, however). It has anthocyanin on the skin. It turns red when ripe (but of course retains the anthocyanin and stripes). It looks like fire or something.

It tastes something like tomato soup, but not as much as other varieties where I've made that comparison, but IMO it makes a decent a slicer. It's heat-tolerant in my semi-arid climate, and it grows tall before falling over (I haven't caged any tomatoes, this year). My fruits aren't as big as advertised, this year (they're maybe a bit bigger than salad-sized), but it's still the largest-fruited (and most prolific) blue tomato I've grown. They're beefsteak-shaped, too.

It set fruit after Blue Beauty, but it ripened fruit before Blue Beauty. It doesn't look anything like Blue Beauty, in my garden, though. I'm not sure if my Blue Beauty is breeding true or not, but it's definitely blue (and the bluest-looking tomato I've grown; by bluest, I don't mean it has the most anthocyanin coverage; I mean, it actually looks blue like some of those images of blue tomatoes that I supposed weren't real).