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Post by darthslater on Mar 29, 2010 16:33:00 GMT -5
Well, I know it is not Sunday but I wasn't sure how this was going to work. But if there are no objections I will be posting the new TOW from now on on Sunday night We will start this fresh with BEAR CREEK. I saw the description of this, also the color blew me away. I will be growing it for the first time this year. It looked like one of those "GOTTA HAVES" I am sure a few have grown this one so lets see some opinions!!
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Post by deanriowa on Mar 31, 2010 9:58:38 GMT -5
Here is what Gourmetseeds had to say about Bear Creek Tomato:
It does sound like a tomato I would like.
Does it crack?
Dean
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Post by PVP on Mar 31, 2010 11:35:20 GMT -5
Grew it first time in 2009. Like many verieties, Bear Creek does not like wet, cool weather. And yes, it will split skin in thunderstorms, but I didn't have any normal growth cracks, radial or concentric. So, in that respect, it's a very nice, smooth shoulder, large to extra large, deep colored tomato.
I bought my seeds from Gourmet Seeds International who obtained them from Robbins who I believe grew them in Southern Missouri on Bear Creek Farms.
When the weather finally straightened up, got warm, stayed dry and behaved normally, Bear Creek put on and ripened some very nice, meaty, great flavored Brandywine/Cherokee Purple tomatoes. And the vine stayed healthy, flowered and produced new fruit right up until the frost.
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Post by jcm05 on Mar 31, 2010 14:01:07 GMT -5
I grew it for the first time last year as well. RL. Produced OK in a bad year. Purple (clear skin) fruit in the 10-14oz range. Flavor was above average but not great but that may or may not have been attributable to the poor weather conditions. Gourmet Seeds International was also my source. As I understand it, the original line was grown by Keith Mueller at Robbins' farm and selected out of 56 others. He grew it to f5 selecting for flavor and gave it to Robbins Hail at Bear Creek Farms to continue to stabilize which they did.
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