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Post by darthslater on Jan 21, 2011 23:17:04 GMT -5
From what I hear, this is a hybrid worthy of growing. Myself, I don't plant them but alot of members here do and I thought I could get some input. I guess it is a red beefsteak type, perhpas being a hybrid it has some disease resistance.
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Post by blane on Jan 22, 2011 8:09:40 GMT -5
Yea, Big Beef, 8 to 14 oz reds... I grew these back in the day, along with Beefsteaks, a great backyard, homegrown tomato with that all around summertime taste. For some reason or another, my supplier quit carrying the plants because the demand for plain ol Beefsteak out numbered the Big Beef. Both were real close in taste, but not in productivty as the BB seemed to produce half as much, and as for disease resistant, VFN was covered (memory) however, some late blight was an issue, but by then, all the nice 1st flush pickings were done. Beefsteak, as long as Billy Hutto sells these plants, they will have a spot here to grow, plus some of my peeps around here count on me to get them the plants too.
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lee
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Post by lee on Jan 22, 2011 10:31:16 GMT -5
Big Beef is quite a nice hybrid. It produces loads of 10~16oz. red round beefsteaks with very good taste. The disease tolerance of this one makes it one of the last ones still producing late here in NC. I prefer this greatly over the other Big and Better hybrids that are typically out there. Here's a photo from Tomatopalooza[tm] IV. Lee
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Post by jcm05 on Jan 22, 2011 21:20:05 GMT -5
One of the better hybrids imo. In the pic below you can see how well the big beef plant in the foreground held up to septoria disease pressure in my garden late last summer. Most other plants were 90% defoliated. The picture was taken on September 29th. The plant produced 25+ pounds of fruit right up until frost.
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