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Post by cloz on Dec 21, 2011 10:54:15 GMT -5
I'll give another vote for Stupice. I grew it here in CT as well as in southern New Jersey at my mother-in-law's and it was one of my earliest as well as good tasting. My MIL had so many Stupice's on one plant that she was giving them away to her neighbors. Everyone loved them. I grew mine in a 12 gal nursery pot on my deck and at one time I counted 125+ tomatoes on the plant. They both had no disease problem and the one in New Jersey had tomatoes till frost. Mine finally went down during one of our prolonged rain periods this fall. I also grew Siberian and Bloody Butcher (Burpee's fake one as well as the real potato leaved one) and neither compared in taste or production to Stupice. I will try Kimberely, Moravsky Div as well as Sophie's Choice (hopefully the real one this year). Tomatofest's Sophies Choice grew to between 5' and 7' tall (3 plants) so it was obviously the wrong seed.
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Post by seamsfaster on Dec 30, 2011 10:58:52 GMT -5
Here are a few that came in at under 100 days from seed to first ripe fruit in 2011, transplant/seed:
Carbon 35/70 (an anomaly-it was a month later for most) Black Cherry 67/87 Haley's Purple Comet 71/91 Silvery Fir Tree 67/95 Bison 59/96 Rosalie's Early Orange 63/97 Bicolor Cherry 77/97 Black and Brown Boar 77/97 Rose 65/99 Beam's Yellow Pear 77/99
Other varieties which ripened in <45 days from transplant: Sugary (F1) 20/purchased Stupice 21/123 Fourth of July (F1) 32/134 Monomakh's Hat? 34/130 Verna Orange 39/135 Sungold 41/purchased Amazon Chocolate 44/137
Among these, here are my top seven for flavor:
1. Black Cherry 2. Sungold 3. Monomakh's Hat (mine did not match some published descriptions) 4. Carbon 5. Black and Brown Boar 6. Amazon Chocolate 7. Stupice
All 7 were healthy and productive (Stupice less so later in the season), but for total weight per plant, I think Carbon and Monomakh's Hat exceeded the others.
I would also give a vote for Fourth of July - from early July until frost I got 1-2 ripe fruits almost every day, regardless of weather conditions. Only a few cherry varieties were such reliable producers for me. I really like the flavor also, but it's a bit strong for some people.
It's intriguing that Tom had a similar result with Carbon!
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attml
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Post by attml on Jan 19, 2012 22:40:39 GMT -5
I grew Matina last year and really liked it. It was a heavy producer and the taste was pretty decent all year. It was fairly early as well!
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