Tomato Gallery

I was getting this mixed up with Adora, the freebie you saved seed from. Any joy from the seed?

An easy mistaka to maka  I did grow some seedlings from the Adora seeds  but ran out of room and enthusiasm when it was time to find somewhere to plant them.

I was getting this mixed up with Adora, the freebie you saved seed from. Any joy from the seed?

An easy mistaka to maka  I did grow some seedlings from the Adora seeds  but ran out of room and enthusiasm when it was time to find somewhere to plant them.

I'll let you in on a secret... based on your glowing report, I went and bought some Adora (actually spending money!) I sowed some saved seeds and the plants have grown but are no where near fruiting. They're also very spindly as, like you, I ran out of enthusiasm.  I doubt they'll even have one fruit to prove themselves worthy.  On the same track, I saved some baby plum tomato seeds from the supermarket, called Maria.  They were sweet and tasty. Once again , enthusiasm dwindled but I did pot it on yesterday, so there is a glimmer of hope it might fruit at least once before the frosts.  As we know it's always a risk, not knowing if they're F1 or not.  This year my old Angelle saved seed gave me two different type tomatoes, one true to type, a baby sweet plum, the other a red cocktail cherry. Both quite nice though.  

Tell me this team, if I save seed from the 'true' plant what are the odds it will remaIn true?

Here's one you prepared earlier about Angelle tomatoes. https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.p...ht=angelle
Generally speaking, you would only save seeds from the true to type fruit, and keep on doing so, until you'd weeded out all the wrong 'uns.

Thank you Veggie. It's as I thought, keep calm and carry on basically.

I took pity on a couple of volunteer tomato seedlings,  growing from cracks in the patio. They're likely to be last years Orangeto.  They're overwhelming the slabs now and you have to step over them all the time, but they have got tomatoes yet to ripen.

   

First beefsteak tomatoes, 2 brandywine and a delicious. Not quite ripe but about to be watered and don't want them splitting. 1.5kg between the 3.

   

Picked my first blue bayou             

Quite nice tomato flavour. High on the acidity, low on the sweetness. It’s in the ok category for me. It’s not a big producer. It’s not top of my grow again list.

True Colours

Pretty good producer, though the plants look very wispy which is a trait of potato leaf heart tomatoes. Excellent, smooth texture. The taste is mostly sweet with a little acidity. This particular fruit doesn't show it very well, but the interior has a mix of pink, green and yellow. 

Daniel Burson

This is a cross between Daniels and Indian Stripe (which itself is a sport of Cherokee Purple). Finally managed to get a good grow from this variety having tried 3 times before (the first wasn't true to type, the string holding the second year plant snapped, and last year the variety produced nothing in the greenhouse soil). Pretty good producer, great taste with a good balance of sweetness and acidity, but also the extra bit of smokiness you get with dark tomatoes.

Rose Crush F1

The only hybrid beefsteak I grew this year. Each truss had 3 perfect, similar sized fruit, which is one of the benefits of hybrids. Curiously it was the latest to ripen. The fruit is really juicy and has surprisingly good taste for a hybrid, a nice blend of sweetness and acidity, though not as good as (Pink) Honeymoon F1. It's resistant to blight too.