Tom Akers
Tomato Gardener
Fishrman and Tomato Lover
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Post by Tom Akers on Jun 16, 2011 5:44:18 GMT -5
Boy do I agree on the Green Grape. The one I grew was possibly the worst tomato I have ever had.
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jcm05
Administrator
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Post by jcm05 on Jun 16, 2011 8:02:42 GMT -5
Boy do I agree on the Green Grape. The one I grew was possibly the worst tomato I have ever had. I agree.
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maf
Breeder in Training
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Post by maf on Jun 16, 2011 11:52:43 GMT -5
Blondkopfchen.
A curious tomato, I find the first one tastes reasonably nice, or at least palatable, but eat any more and they taste awful! Also has the annoying multifloral trait so the trusses cannot support their own weight and you can't get to the ripe ones because you are blocked out by the unripe.
On the plus side they keep for three months or more if the trusses are hung up in a cool room, but in practice this just means I wait three months before throwing them away.
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maf
Breeder in Training
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Post by maf on Jun 17, 2011 20:46:24 GMT -5
I called it 'Blonde-choke-coughin'. That I like! Would be a decent description of the original as well. I gave a few Blondkopfchen plants away the year I grew it, didn't do my reputation any good at all! Interesting to hear about the crossed Blondkopfchen growout. Reinforces my opinion that it is not a plant whose genes should be used for breeding, whether accidental or intentional. For obvious reasons, it won't ever be coming near my garden again.
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Post by nordfyr315 on Sept 5, 2011 22:05:39 GMT -5
New to the not-worth-it list this year is Speckled Roman. 100% BER and the fruit I could salvage by cutting off the blossom end was unremarkable.
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Post by littleminnie on Sept 5, 2011 22:14:34 GMT -5
Liked the determinate Casady's Folly way better.
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Post by jjrasm on Oct 13, 2011 19:05:36 GMT -5
I'm surprised to hear people speak so disparagingly of Blondkopfchen. These were great tasting from my garden. Everyone I shared them with also loved them. I even had a hard time keeping my 1 year old from eating them all when we were in the garden. I'm glad I hadn't read this before I bought the seeds. I would have missed out. ;D
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Post by catherinew on Dec 29, 2011 21:07:47 GMT -5
I agree with the Blondkopfchen. Not a great producer and even the little kids didn't like the taste - too bland (yucky) they said. Black Cherry was a great producer, but most of them split with all the rain we had in too short a time. Tarasenko had BER for at least 90% of the fruit - a complete waste of time and effort for 3 plants. The heart tomato, Monkey A** tasted great, but had no shelf life and started turning splotchy.
As for the Brandywines, I love them, or most of them. Cowlick and Glicks were very late this year, but had the best taste.
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Post by seamsfaster on Dec 31, 2011 0:07:40 GMT -5
From a straight lack-of-flavor perspective, these were some not-worth-it varieties I grew in 2011:
• Tondino Maremmano - (very productive, very boring) • Eva Purple Ball - ditto (I know, lot's of people rave about them, but I found them flavorless) • Red Grape - useless tiny tomato • Yellow Pear - blah • Red Pear - ditto • Beam's Yellow Pear - only a notch less blah • Garden Peach - mushy, boring • Riesentraube - edible but little flavor • Isis Candy - ditto • Silvery Fir Tree - almost inedible, strong, not pleasant flavor
And a bunch of mediocre ones, including: Blondköpfchen, Ildi, Principe Borghese (intended for drying, however), Martian Giant ...
I grew Green Grape for the first time in 2010 and did not care for it. I let it ripen to an amber blush on the blossom end, as instructed. In 2011, after reading more about the variety, I allowed the fruits to stay on the vine until they were soft ripe and almost all amber colored. This took an extra two weeks and really tried my patience. But it was worth the wait - the flavor was excellent then: juicy, sweet, distinctive and compelling.
I'm finding there are tomato varieties like that - not very good unless you pick them at the peak of ripeness.
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Post by kevin1962 on Dec 31, 2011 15:59:32 GMT -5
You know, the trouble with this thread is that whilst I can remember everything that I really enjoyed, I cannot think of those, (since they didn't leave much of an impression), that were truly foul. As I recall, we tried one called "Rowdy red" that came from TomatoFest. It had a decent enough write up about it possessing a strong tomatoey flavor, but for the second straight year, it really left a lot to be desired. The taste wasn't necessarily bad, per se, but I could think of at least 20 other varieties that had it beat. Additionally, its production was extremely average. Conversely, the big winners for my family this past season were "Big Cheef", and Brandywine-Sudduth's strain, and it wasn't even close. I was moderately "pleased" with Santa Clara Canner, and Rutgers, in as much as the taste was there and they produced well enough for the purposes for which they'd been selected. I don't think I'll try Sungold again, though indeed, it was as sweet as advertised and produced an abundant crop. I simply felt that in reaching a certain Brix number, they've lost a good portion of the "tomato" taste, that I appreciate. ;D
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