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Orangeto tomatoes - Veggie - 20-02-2024
New thread as requested by JJB
RE: 2024 - What I did today - toomanytommytoes - 29-09-2024
What do you think of Orangeto? I don't like it, pretty tasteless and bad texture. Fruit much smaller than expected. Best tasting cherry this year has been Orange Paruche.
RE: 2024 - What I did today - JJB - 29-09-2024
(29-09-2024, 01:38 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: What do you think of Orangeto? I don't like it, pretty tasteless and bad texture. Fruit much smaller than expected. Best tasting cherry this year has been Orange Paruche.
I liked it enough to grow again. The early fruit didn't impress but later on in the season they improved in sweetness. I'm still picking now. I didn't realise they'd need the amount of support and I had to raise up the trailing boughs from the floor. So far they're the best patio tom I've tried so far. I'm tempted to try your Orange Paruche. I'm off to Google.
PS another plus is/was they're just outside the back door and are ideal to scrump when passing by.
RE: 2024 - What I did today - toomanytommytoes - 29-09-2024
(29-09-2024, 03:02 PM)JJB Wrote:(29-09-2024, 01:38 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: What do you think of Orangeto? I don't like it, pretty tasteless and bad texture. Fruit much smaller than expected. Best tasting cherry this year has been Orange Paruche.
I liked it enough to grow again. The early fruit didn't impress but later on in the season they improved in sweetness. I'm still picking now. I didn't realise they'd need the amount of support and I had to raise up the trailing boughs from the floor. So far they're the best patio tom I've tried so far. I'm tempted to try your Orange Paruche. I'm off to Google.
PS another plus is/was they're just outside the back door and are ideal to scrump when passing by.
Have you got a photo of your Orangeto fruit? I'm wondering if mine are slightly off type, I was expecting them to be the same size and shape as Romello.
Orange Paruche has that sort of tropical Sungold smell. Some suppliers list it as a hybrid, others don't. Pennard Plants have it as blight resistant, but nowhere else does. It hasn't got blight yet, despite plenty of other varieties having it for over a month.
None of the blight resistant cherries have impressed flavour wise, but then it's been a pretty bad year for tomato taste in general for me.
RE: 2024 - What I did today - JJB - 30-09-2024
(29-09-2024, 04:47 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote:(29-09-2024, 03:02 PM)JJB Wrote:(29-09-2024, 01:38 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: What do you think of Orangeto? I don't like it, pretty tasteless and bad texture. Fruit much smaller than expected. Best tasting cherry this year has been Orange Paruche.
I liked it enough to grow again. The early fruit didn't impress but later on in the season they improved in sweetness. I'm still picking now. I didn't realise they'd need the amount of support and I had to raise up the trailing boughs from the floor. So far they're the best patio tom I've tried so far. I'm tempted to try your Orange Paruche. I'm off to Google.
PS another plus is/was they're just outside the back door and are ideal to scrump when passing by.
Have you got a photo of your Orangeto fruit? I'm wondering if mine are slightly off type, I was expecting them to be the same size and shape as Romello.
Orange Paruche has that sort of tropical Sungold smell. Some suppliers list it as a hybrid, others don't. Pennard Plants have it as blight resistant, but nowhere else does. It hasn't got blight yet, despite plenty of other varieties having it for over a month.
None of the blight resistant cherries have impressed flavour wise, but then it's been a pretty bad year for tomato taste in general for me.
The remaining fruit just harvested are rather small, definitely smaller than sungold. In peak season there were some larger fruit earlier on. I'll try to get a picture of a sungold and orangeto together for comparison.
As far as blight resistant cherries go, I found primivera and primibella both had a decent taste later on in the season, then the rains came and they all split. Honeycomb is sweet and doesn't split like sungold.
Hey Veggie how about moving this discussion to the tomato thread so we can find it later on?
RE: Orangeto tomatoes - JJB - 30-09-2024
Size comparison. Orangeto are definitely smaller than sungold or honeycomb, although the photo doesn't demonstrate this well.
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