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Post by darthslater on Sept 19, 2010 7:20:35 GMT -5
This weeks pic is a paste tomato. I dont usually plant pastes but this was a very good one, even when ripened from the full green stage it had amazing sauce capabilities. This was a great producer and put out lots of large pastes, unlike some pastes this one didnt get BER as bad. It was right up there with Romeo.
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tomc
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Post by tomc on Sept 19, 2010 7:54:44 GMT -5
Thanks Darth, Cows Tit makes a cows-horn shaped red fruit on a (mostly) tomato-leaf indeterminate plant. It is good enough to eat fresh, and is meaty enough to be suitable for cooked tomato product. Its leaf shape is v-e-r-y long, I have described it as lanceolate. The drooping nature of this leaf shape makes it easy (for me at least) to over water. I advise to check soil for moisture levels, and to not water based on what the plant looks like.
I expect a good plant breeder can say why this shape accession pops up every so often, This cultivar was collected by Keith Mueller while touring tomato feilds (as a buyer perhaps?) in 2004-5. The plants distict shape made it stand out in a feild. The grower when asked named it "a cows tit tomato". Hence its colorful name.
There are other very similar accessions, I was able to grow CT side by side with Gilbertie, CT out produced Gilbertie in three trials running.
This is a superior tomato and has reliably made crops every year save 2009. '09 was the year that potato blight wiped out most of the tomato crop in the northeast.
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Post by darthslater on Sept 22, 2010 8:01:47 GMT -5
I also planted Long Tom, it is very hard to see a difference between those 2. They look identical. Jersey Devil was another good one for me.
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tomc
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Post by tomc on Sept 22, 2010 16:17:21 GMT -5
I've grown out what was supposed to be Opalka (five or six times), whatever it was I grew it darned fer sure was not a cows-horn shaped paste. If you can get the right cultivar Opalka might give CT a run for its money.
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Post by stratcat on Oct 2, 2010 22:59:59 GMT -5
Grew Cow's Tit for the first time this year. Tasted excellent in my sandwiches. Shared with a friend whose elderly Grandma said she "loved how meaty it was and not seedy."
Thanks to Tom C whose site I found where it was offered.
Picked my last one today.
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