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Post by klorentz on Oct 8, 2013 10:57:20 GMT -5
A real hard choice. Not only do I have several nice varieties there are some from seed catalogs I want to try. But here is my gonna grow for sure/ permanent/maybe list.
Al-Kuffa
Thessaloniki
Abe Lincoln
Costoluto Genovese
Black Krim
Stump of the World
Cour di Bue
Cow Lick's Brandywine
Brandywine ( Suddith )
San Marzano
San Marzano Redorta
A Grappoli D'Inverno
Terhune
Hoy
Monkey Ass
Red Pair ( Italian )
Pruden's Purple
Italian Market Wonder
Brave General
Pantano
Indian Stripe
Hawaiian Pineapple
Ted's Current
Black Cherry
Purple Dog Creek
Dana's Dusky Rose
Mariana's Peace
Rose
Black from Tula
Lincoln Adam's
Van Wert Ohio
Gary O'Sena
Abu Rawan
O'Sena Green
Goose Creek
Da Appen bere Rosa
Kilo Della Garfagnana
Kellog's Breakfast
Tiqrovy
Homestead
Giant Belgium
Bernar Dini
Uncle Mark Bagby
Soldacki
Daniels
Tonadose Des Conores
Atkinson
Old Italian
Warsawiya
Kleopatra
Sylvan Guame
Vorlon
Giant Syrian
Eva Purple Ball
Amen Kanac
Basket Vee
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Oct 8, 2013 12:01:15 GMT -5
Probably just Sarah Black from Baker's Creek and Mule Team from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange(the Baker's Creek Mule Team is NOT the same)
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Post by camochef on Oct 8, 2013 15:08:33 GMT -5
Kev, I'm going the opposite direction. As you know I used to grow hundreds and hundreds of varieties each year. The past few years I've whittled them down to the best of the best. Actually got down to 20 last year and had a couple of them destroyed by a storm that went through fairly early in the season. Next year I want to have no more than 10 plants. maybe two of each variety. So those 5:
Cowlick's Brandywine- the original P.L.
German Johnson-Benton Strain (P.L.)
Dana's Dusky Rose (R.L.)
Brandywine Glicks (P.L.)
Bear Creek (R.L.)
These have been the best tasting and best producing for about the last ten years under various conditions. I've grown many on your list over the years and some have been good, a couple great, some not so hot and a few I'd never grow again, although I hate saying that as conditions vary from place to place as do other possible influencing conditions, weather, soil, moisture, fertilizers, ph, organic matter, etc,etc.
I wish you much luck with your selections and hoping you have a great season ahead. Enjoy! Camo
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Post by klorentz on Oct 8, 2013 19:02:16 GMT -5
Camo!!! Good to hear from you. I would be cutting the list down myself where we still in Michigan or at least Ohio. Here in Texas all bets are off.New climate new way of doing things. So I gotta see which favorites do well and what new ones will do good here and go from there.
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Post by bammer on Oct 28, 2013 18:49:58 GMT -5
For now here's the list... Updated 2/6/14
Ind stripe X Daniels F5 Capt White F4 Jeanne Flamme Yellow Boar C.P. x Bradley F5 Purple Haze F5 (Little Lan) Cherokee Purple Rebel Yell F7 Amish Paste Pearly Pink Bombdipity F4 (Golden Grape X Capt Lucky F4) N.B.C. (Pinkgumball) VPL X OR 117 F3 Gail X Everetts Rusty Oxheart F2 Indigo Rose X Valentine F2 Bammer's Beefsteak F4
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Post by garrett on Nov 6, 2013 1:06:19 GMT -5
get er done ya'lls! got a few potted maters trying.lol
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Post by LinFL on Nov 6, 2013 10:53:13 GMT -5
I am participating in some seed trades this fall. I want to see what I get from those before figuring out my planting list.
Rebel Yell is going to be on it, though. Those are some great-tasting tomatoes.
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Post by garrett on Nov 13, 2013 9:32:25 GMT -5
might start a few meself next year...smiles ya'll grow on!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by directsunlight on Nov 17, 2013 2:02:34 GMT -5
Am going to put less effort into which types of tomatoes I'm going to grow and more into what kind of shade I'm going to provide. Haven't lost my reason though, still want to start the seeds myself and will look at catalogs. The main point is, without shade, the production comes as a rush to the end in the fall, hardly worth the effort to sort all that out. I'm thinking giant sunflowers on side and am open to ideas on the other side. Sioux were productive but bland, wild cherry volunteers were great this time around. Takes patience though to pick all of those tiny tomatoes.
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Post by garrett on Nov 17, 2013 13:00:37 GMT -5
ds I am toying with planting in some shade too. maybe a fruiting hedge of some type? a berry bush perhaps to do double duty?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Dec 8, 2013 0:58:44 GMT -5
Well my list is changing. There will probably be a oxheart type tomato, maybe that new red tomato from Iraq and maybe one black mater of undetermined type.
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Post by garrett on Dec 8, 2013 9:44:50 GMT -5
still dreaming of Arkansas black....
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Post by kay on Dec 8, 2013 12:17:42 GMT -5
Times running out, tomato starting will soon be here! Do I go for the tried and true or explore new varieties, not knowing if there will be enough to can?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Dec 8, 2013 17:06:48 GMT -5
Times running out, tomato starting will soon be here! Do I go for the tried and true or explore new varieties, not knowing if there will be enough to can? Go 50/50, half your plants tried and true and the other half 2 or 3 new varieties. Just start 2 or 3 times as many as you need and adopt out the leftovers.
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Post by dirtdobber on Jan 1, 2014 11:15:22 GMT -5
Well I am going to with these this year most of which I have never grown.
Chocolate Cherry Black Cherry JD's Special C-Tex Spudakee Marglobe Supreme Abe Lincoln Bonny's Best Ponderosa Pink Sandul Moldovan Cowlick's Brandywine
Hopefully no late freezes this year
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Post by LinFL on Jan 1, 2014 20:48:37 GMT -5
Ho boy...after all those trades I did this fall, and a very generous person who flat out GAVE me sample packs of 31 different varieties, I now have 121 different kinds of tomatoes! Most of these I have never grown. I could grow 26 plants at a time as an absolute maximum, but I want to keep it to 20 so I can use a few of my Earthboxes for you know...other veggies. So I can only grow about 1/6 of my inventory in the spring. (I should be able to grow some in the fall as well, but not quite as many.) Every time I look at the list and try to make decisions my head spins. There are a few I absolutely want to grow but for the rest of them there are just too many great-sounding choices. I may have to put names in a hat at this rate!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jan 1, 2014 22:11:04 GMT -5
Lin make a list , so many red ones, so many striped, so many pink so many cherry then sort your seed packets into the appropriate piles. If you can't make up your mind in each pile, use a pair of dice. That is more or less what I did last year. The also rans got given away.
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Post by LinFL on Jan 10, 2014 10:06:03 GMT -5
That's sort of what I did. But I used my seed spreadsheet instead of making an actual pile of seed packets. Yesterday I sowed seeds of: Beaverlodge Slicer Dwarf Wild Fred Korol Gigantov Rebel Yell Siberian Tiger Surpriz These will go out early, under Kozy Koats to protect against frost. I also dropped seeds for a micro-dwarf, Mohamed, which will stay inside. These are the first tomatoes I will raise from seed under my new grow light (Christmas present). My new light is a 4 foot, 4 bulb T5 fixture and wow, is it bright! I am keeping the old light (2 ft, 2 bulb T5) so I can use it on another shelf. The new light allows me to really expand my seed starting area. Unfortunately it also makes me want another 4ft fixture... Anyway, I will start seeds for the rest of the spring line-up near the end of the month, depending on the weather. Currently (I think) those will be: Big Cheef Black Cherry Brad's Black Heart First Mate Girl Girl's Weird Thing Hippie Heart #2 Lucky Cross Mighty Red Not Purple Strawberry Persimmon Polish Linguisa Principe Borghese Terhune Texwine Tom Boy Vorlon Those will go out hopefully in early March. That will bring me to 20 full-size tomato plants, 2 dwarfs, and 2 microdwarfs (Mohamed and Hahms Gelbe Topftomate, which I planted back in November). In May I will start more seeds for some (hopefully) heat tolerant and disease resistant varieties to go out as the spring tomatoes start quitting on me in June & July. I don't have that list settled yet. I may start some of the summer plants sooner, if I have some spring plants that just aren't doing well. In July I will sow one last, smaller round of fall plants to be planted out in August. How many fall plants I sow will depend on how the summer plants are doing. I did spring and fall tomatoes successfully last year, but trying to sneak in a summer crop is a new experiment for me.
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Post by garrett on Jan 11, 2014 10:17:40 GMT -5
indian stripe.
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Post by klorentz on Jan 11, 2014 10:59:26 GMT -5
Got some new to me maters from Double Helix Farms. 100 Pounds,Little Bells,Gigante De Hutt,Grandee , Cartego Pear,King of the Giants and the return of my favorite plum mater from the collection of Dan McMurray Italian Giant Paste. And yes I do have a flat seeded with mostly maters.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jan 11, 2014 11:32:24 GMT -5
Basrawya, Cour Di Bue, and Japanese Black Trifele this year. They are all new to me and are respectively: a supposedly high heat tolerant red one, a pink oxheart, and a high producing crack resistant black one. We shall see.
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Post by garrett on Jan 14, 2014 1:23:59 GMT -5
get erdone. not planting out till march......lol
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Post by klorentz on Jan 15, 2014 16:02:52 GMT -5
We have baby mater plants !
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Post by LinFL on Jan 16, 2014 10:13:02 GMT -5
Yay! Same here. All but one of the first round of baby maters has sprouted. Love seeing those tiny leaves opened up to catch the light.
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Post by garrett on Jan 18, 2014 10:27:30 GMT -5
mateeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by bammer on Feb 6, 2014 18:06:53 GMT -5
For now here's the list... Updated 2/6/14 Ind stripe X Daniels F5 Capt White F4 Jeanne Flamme Yellow Boar C.P. x Bradley F5 Purple Haze F5 (Little Lan) Cherokee Purple Rebel Yell F7 Amish Paste Pearly Pink Bombdipity F4 (Golden Grape X Capt Lucky F4) N.B.C. (Pinkgumball) VPL X OR 117 F3 Gail X Everetts Rusty Oxheart F2 Indigo Rose X Valentine F2 Bammer's Beefsteak F4 Updated list. 2/6/14
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Post by bammer on Feb 16, 2014 22:04:42 GMT -5
3 more to add
Wildtyhme GWR Wildtyhme Bi-color Amish Paste X Prudens Purple F3
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Post by garrett on Feb 17, 2014 23:57:36 GMT -5
look out the growlight is going now!
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Post by garrett on Feb 24, 2014 10:57:03 GMT -5
get em growing!rawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhiddddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by garrett on Feb 24, 2014 10:57:09 GMT -5
get em growing!rawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhiddddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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