Some tomatoes I'm growing this year

[Cyril]

Hello,



here is the list of the tomatoes I'm growing this year, I will keep updating the progress here with pictures and notes,

the following descriptions are based of what I found on the internet and my observations for some I've grown last year.



MEDIUM AND LARGE SIZED



PROVENZANO : big red tomatoes

JD'S SPECIAL C-TEX : medium sized black tomatoes

GREEN GIANT : big green tomatoes

ARBUZNYI : medium sized black tomatoes

RED PEAR GRANSASSO STRAIN : red pear shaped tomatoes

BIG SKY BRANDY : big orange tomatoes, Tom's création

DE BERAO red egg shaped tomatoes, very productive and very vigourous

STRIPES OF YORES : a very striped from Tom

JAPANESE BLACK TRIFELE: black pear shaped tomatoes

TRIPLE L CROP : big red tomatoes

POLISH EGGS : red egg sized tomatoes

SUMMER CIDER : big orange tomatoes

PINK ACCORDION : pink ribbed tomatoes

OMAR LIBANESE big red ribbed tomatoes, very productive

HUGH'S : big pale yellow tomatoes

POTIRON ECARLATE : the biggest and heavyiest red tomato I have grown

ANNA RUSSIAN : pink heart shaped tomatoes

OVITA : large pink ribbed tomatoes

GREVY ZEBRA : big green zebra, a Tom's création

JOE'S PORTUGUESE huge pink beefsteak tomatoes, very vigourous plants

PINEAPPLE : the original pineapple

PINK BRANDYWINE : the original pink brandywine

MARIANNA'S PEACE : big bright red tomatoes

OLIVE HILL : deep pink beefsteack

GREEN ZEBRA : the original

CHIANTI : pink beefsteack, delicious

TURBAN'S DIVERSITY : large beefsteack, a Tom's création

SOLANUM HUMBOLTII : I dont know yet what I can get from it

VARIEGATED : the plant show white splashed leaves, even the tomatoes show white some white at green stage

TLACOLULA : deeply ribbed red tomatoes

LUTESCENTE/HONOR BRIGHT : unusual plant with yellow foliage, white flowers and medium sized fruits that turn from green to white to yellow to orange to red.

VOYAGEUR : so deeply ribbed that you can take apart the fruit without damaging it much



PASTES



HOG HEART : red paste, pretty long

OPALKA : productive red paste

GIANT PASTE : big red paste

FIASHETTO : small paste, don't seems very productive



CHERRYS



GREEN GRAPE : green cherry with spiced flavor, a Tom's creation

ORANGE BOURGOIN : orange cherry

SWEET CASADY : red saladette, a Tom's création

ROSE QUARTZ MULTIFLORA : pink cherry, very productive

CABERNET : mini red pears on a large bush, very productive

HONEY FROM MEXICO : red cherry

AUNT RUBY GERMAN CHERRY : green with some pink, too big for a cherry, productive

RED VELVET : bright red cherry, productive

CREAM SAUSAGE : small cream paste, a Tom's création

[Cyril]

I have been busyier, than expected last weeks so I couldn't keep regular notes and all the pictures I tried to take were too bad to be shown, so I'm gonna try to take new ones and post them afer.
So here is what I can tell now.


OLIVE HILL : I had a little accident with this one, I cutted down the head but It probably helped the 3 fruits it bears to become bigger, they are starting to turn red.

MARIANNA'S PEACE : Set 3 medium sized deeply ribbed fruits, not turning yet

LUTESCENT/BRIGHT HONOR : Green acidic foliage, white flowers as expected, one little fruit white for now

VARIEGATED : Interesting foliage with splash of different tints, few little tomatoes nearly red.

TLACOLULA : Vigorous, healthy with green silvered foliage, starting to produce many little ribbed pears.

CREAM SAUSAGE : Little plant, i'm keeping this one for crosses purposes.

VOYAGEUR : Vigorous & healthy, produce masses of flowers, I'm also using this one for crosses.

ANANAS/PINEAPPLE : Dont want to grow for the third year, probably bad seeds.

HOG HEART : Nice red pastes and in quantity, 2 get black rot when little but all others are healthy.

GIANT PASTE : Seems to be a mistake because all I get are round fruits, not turning yet.

JOE'S PORTUGUESE & OVITA : Also a mistake for both of them because the two plants gave me oblong medium
sized fruits, they were the first mature and they are the most productive I have.
Too bad I dont know its real name

GREVY ZEBRA : Productive & healthy, some fruits are a bit heart shaped, one starts to turn greenish-yellow.

TURBANS DIVERSITY : Yellow then light orange medium sized beefsteack fruits, very sweet taste.

FIASCHETTO : very little plant, seems to prefers spread on the ground than grow up, producing a lot
of small heath shaped fruit, I'm not sure to do this one again.

ANNA RUSSIAN : Produce a lot of heart shapped deeply pink, very good taste.

POTIRON ECARLATE : Set 3 big tomatoes starting to turn.

HUGH'S : 7 fruits are growing bigger each days.

OMAR LEBANESE : Staring to produce a lot of medim to big ribbed fruits.

PINK ACCORDION : One of the most vigorous & productive I have, they are indeed deeply ribbed, few are starting to turn.

SUMMER CIDER : One big fruit growing fast, few little others are forming.

POLISH EGG : The tallest I have but very late to set fruits compared to the others.

GREEN ZEBRA : One plant is week and the other show an anormal devellopement, bad seeds I guess.

TRIPLE L CROP : Set few ribbed & pink big fruits, they are the tastiest I have for now.

JAPANESE BLACK TRIFELE : Sets few medium sized pears starting to turning brown, and a lot of flowers.

STRIPES OF YORES : productive and very good looking zebra fruits, not turning yet.

DE BERAO : Was late to grow but starting to produce fruits & growing at the same time.

RED PEAR GRANSASSO STRAIN : vigorous & very productive, nice looking ribbed pear shaped fruits.

ARBUZNYI : setting few medium sized fruit, one is turning brown.

GREEN GIANT : Producing few big fruits growing more every days.

JD'S SPECIAL C-TEX : No fruits yet but a lot of flowers.

PROVENZANO : Only one big fruit starting to turn, will be probably my weight record for this year.

CABERNET : Not the big bush crawling with little tasty red pears I get a couple of years ago, Its probably
a mutation I got this year: the plant is low, fruits are little orange pears and the plant get
early blight, I certainly wont use it for crosses, or keeping seeds.

BIG SKY BRANDY : Its a long way from the big orange fruit I expected, the plants is giving good looking blue cherries,
I crossed it with pink accordion to practice plant breeding.

MIEL DU MEXIQUE/HONEY FROM MEXICO : Large plant, giving me big cherries.

SWEET CASADY : Large & healthy plant preparing a lot of small pepper shaped fruits, I'm gonna keep the seeds
and if I can make a cross.

ROSE QUARTZ MULTIFLORA : The plant is not very high but it produce hundred of flowers and a lot of pink sweet fruits.

SOLANUM HUMBOLTII : Gave me the first cherries, very vigorous and productive plant, I dont try to control its growth anymore, I let it spread arround near the other tomatoes and the sunflower behind.

RED VELVET : Vigorous & healthy, producting a lot of cherries but not any started to turn yet.

AUNT RUBY GERMAN CHERRY : Very tall plant producing regulary green tasty cherries, the varietie dont seems fixed
because a couple of years ago I get the same tallets plant but the fruits were much bigger with
some pink inside, but the taste was also great, I knew I should have keep seeds from this one.
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[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for the descriptions! Information like this is good for folks wanting a preview of some varieties before choosing what they want to grow next

[Cyril]

I forgot to talk about the conditions of growth like the soil, the weather and the watering.

The soil is quite good, not too much clay, not too much limestone, an equilibred texture in fact.
I dont use any chemicals, only fresh compost with some dried blood and mixed horn on the surface at winter then I ad a little compost at the planting time. I let the plants make some roots two weeks then I bring some fresh mulch.
The place is very sunny exept few meters near a tree but there is still enought light.

Here in Paris (France) we had a very hot and sunny couple of month so the disease were inexistant, until last week when it changed brutally : we had some rain and the temperature cooled down. It made 'aunt ruby german green' to start craking, others like 'potiron ecarlate' and 'olive hill' have just some wounds on the top.
'Cabernet' gets early blight but this strain seems pretty weak, solanum humboltii show signs of late blight but its managing.

The watering is quite simple : the mulch helps to prevent the surface to dehydrating but it doesn't to everything.
I use a drop to drop pipe put before mulching, its very efficient in condition of putting the plants next to the holes of the pipe.
Due to the dry wheather I had to do the watering the old fashion way few times, and also because I added plants after.

I really must post some pictures.

[cyril]

Here are some pictures of my tomatoes, I had a good  yeld this year even with the hot dry period we had.
Most of my plants were diseace free and those who were managed it.  

Aunt ruby german cherry is a good producer, tall and healthy even if the green fruits crack easly.


Brandywine sudduth's strain set only 3 fruits, very tasty but I dont think I'm gonna grown it again.


I used Cream sausage as female plant for crossing purpose with voyageur, so I planted them closely and I let only 5 fruits,
let's see what will happened



It is the seconde time that i grew Green giant and I wasnt dissapointed again, strong plant who gave me heavy fruits, and very sweet.
Maybe I could use it to make crosses.




Grevy zebra gave me many fruits over a long period, in fact it was one of the first and the last fruits are maturing now, the fruits are oblong and the flesh is sweet very tender.


Hog heart is the typical red tomato with a pepper shape,the fruits were pretty long to mature, maybe due to a too hot period whe had but the taste worth the patience.
few fruits gets the blossom en rot.



Hugh's was had a good yeld, the fruits were medium sized and entierly white but not enought tasty to me, maybe it could be arranged with some crosses.


I was curious about what Japanese black trifele looks like and I wasnt dissapointed : a pear shaped brown tomato with a very sweet taste but the plant gave me many fruits in short period then nearly nothing but like I said before we had a very hot and dry period and maybe some varieties didn't liked it.


Lutescent/Bright honor is the strangest tomato I have grown yet: a green acidic foliage who tend to become pale yellow, whit flowers and small round tomatoes with a large display of colours during maturation, this variety is not particulary productive and the fruit have a basic taste ut I think this one could be turned into an ornemental variety.

 

Olive hill gave me only 3 fruits the largest fruits of all then nothing, and finally some are maturing now.
They were pretty good.



Omar libanese was better gets more fruits last year but they are definitly very good, the shape is somehow irregular.
I plan to use it to make some crosses.



Pink accordion is one the best I grew, I had difficulties to find the seeds but it was woth the effort : heavy yeld of big pinkish red tomatoes deeply ribbed on a vigorous plant. they were sweet and meaty.
Produce a lot of pollen that I used one an unidentified blue tomato.

 
Potiron ecarlate is the type of tomato who set big fruits then take a long break, like olive hill in fact.


Provenzano gave at first one heavy fruit with a dense flesh but very few seeds inside, then some others smaller.
This variety is pretty delicious.


Rose quartz multiflora is compact but I have many little pink cherries every day, and very sweet, I tried to use it as female plant but the manipulation of the flower was too difficult. I will retry next year and aslo use its pollen on other varieties.




Stripes of yores gave me many medium sized fruits with a marbeled yellow skin, some of my coworkers founded it not very beautiful but they are used to commercial tomatoes, they finally tried it and found them good, but it is indeed better to cut of the skin, too thick.




I have more pictures to share but later.

[cyril]

Summer cider apricot is one of my best tomato : gave me 2 crops a year of very orange fruits, wich are extremly sweet.
my weight record two years ago.



Variegated tends to be more an ornemental variety, the fruits are good but not very abundant, they are variegated before maturity.
The foliage and even the stems are variegated in different tints of white, however not every leaves are veriagated.
I wish to enhance those traits, maybe next year.





Turban's diversity was one of the earliest and didn't stop to produce fruits like many others, it just slowed down a little.
I believed it was a yellow veriety because the fruits were very pale at the begining and stays yellow for a moment but they finally become orange, its just a question of patience, and they are better when fully mature.




Tlacolula is a tall plant showing an unexpected greyish foliage, the fruits are pear shaped with some ribbs and are empty, the flesh is quite dry. I had them in abundance but they seems to rot easly from the inside.

[cyril]

Fiashetto dissapointed me at first because the plant wouldn't grow but it seems that this one wants to spread on the surfacemore than grow upright. Anyway I had a lot of elongated fruits over a long period then the plant dissapeared.



Red pear gransasso strain was great : big pear shaped ribbed fruits wich are more large than tall and somehow flat.



Tiny tim is a miniature variety, some kind of tomato bonsai, exellent for growing in pots too.

[Tom Wagner]

great pix and I should comment about planting Cream Sausage aka Banana Cream next to another variety will not increase chances of hybrids. Not unless you have some active insect pollenizers around

[cyril]

Oh they are arround, bees, bumblebees, sylphes and others that I dont know the name, but the hand pollenisation method is obviously safer to have a choosen hybridation.

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