F1 seeds

My gardening magazine arrived yesterday. In it someone put tomatoes through some growing/production tests. Listing the best 21 varieties. 9 of them were F1. I’d expect some F1s listed but close to 50% , I find a little disappointing.

My gardening magazine arrived yesterday. In it someone put tomatoes through some growing/production tests. Listing the best 21 varieties. 9 of them were F1.  I’d expect some F1s listed but close to 50% , I find a little disappointing.

C,mon then, which varieties were 1,2 and three ?

It’s not really a count down, it’s more lots of made up categories. Half of which I think could easily be amalgamated 
Best for continual high yield Akron F1
Best for gourmet growers Black cherry
Best for early beefsteak harvest Black Russian
Best for a steady supply Gardeners delight
Best for golden cherry for on the vine harvest Honeycomb F1
Best for blight resistance Mountain magic F1
Best for high yields of blight resistant Consuelo
Best for eye catching high yield beefsteak Costoluto genovese
Best for a delicious slicing tomato Ferline F1
Best for plate breaking beefsteak Pineapple
Best for long abundant late season trusses Red cherry
Best for passata & preserves Roma VF
Best for lots of attractive cherry fruits Strillo F1
Best for high yield tasty orange cherry Sungold F1
Best for a sweet beefsteak Super marmande
Best for one of the sweetest red cherry toms Sweet aperitif
Best for eye catching slicing tomato Tigerella
Best for delicious productive beefsteak Tomande F1
Best for compact patio with huge yield Losetto F1
Best for compact cocktail style fruits Maskotka
Best for high yield of cherry plums Romello F1

^^^That looks like they were given 21 tomatoes and told to make up a category to fit each one......
Step 1 - sort into size of tom, small, medium, large
Step 2. - sort into colour
Step 3 - sort by height
Step 4 - blight resistance
Step 5 - anything left - make up something to fit.

^^^That looks like they were given 21 tomatoes and told to make up a category to fit each one......
Step 1 - sort into size of tom, small, medium, large
Step 2. - sort into colour
Step 3 - sort by height
Step 4 - blight resistance
Step 5 - anything left - make up something to fit.

Exactly. I think we could probably find some very suitable varieties to replace most of those F1s.

^^^That looks like they were given 21 tomatoes and told to make up a category to fit each one......
Step 1 - sort into size of tom, small, medium, large
Step 2. - sort into colour
Step 3 - sort by height
Step 4 - blight resistance
Step 5 - anything left - make up something to fit.

Agreed. "Early beefsteak" seems like a reasonably sensible kind of category, since beefsteaks take a long time to ripen - "golden cherry for on the vine harvest" is suspiciously specific!

Three of the nine varieties I have this year are F1 (all of them cherry types), the rest are OP. TBH I mostly bought Sungold to find out what all the fuss is about - I'll probably replace them with something else next year unless I'm really sold on them.

The flavour reviews are quite funny. Not sure why they are recommending varieties that are 'bland' and 'pappy'.  I completely disagree with their assessment of Maskotka as being bland and watery, to me it had an excellent flavour. Sounds to me like they overwatered their plants.

One out of 21 will have to do me, and it's an OP variety.

Black Russian is listed as an early beefsteak yet mine are usually late?

I have sown a bit earlier this year so maybe I will see it live up to its reputation.

According to Marshalls Seed Catalogue:-
Black Russian is F1. (25 seeds £2.99)
Honeycomb is NOT F1 (15 seeds £3.99)
Mountain magic is NOT F1 (6 seeds £3.99)

All different to SC's list. It really bugs me how the companies can't be consistent over what is/isn't an F1 seed.

My gardening magazine arrived yesterday. In it someone put tomatoes through some growing/production tests. Listing the best 21 varieties. 9 of them were F1.  I’d expect some F1s listed but close to 50% , I find a little disappointing.

Which mag SC?