comparing tom varieties - quality, taste and yield

System

Just reporting in.
Black Krim picked two, tasty but tops a little split and russeted.
Marinda (F1 marmande variety) picked three loads to come.
Japan Noir (Raymond Blanc pick) umpteen 90gm fruits, extremely juicy with nice tender flesh but not strongest tasting. Am going to hold off all water now on these as they are in the ground to try boost the flavours.
Suncherry premium F1 and Suncherry Gold - picking handfuls each day, really sweet, plants in great condition and allowing them to keep setting trusses.
Orange Santa F1 Very good, with more acidity then the suncherries - only have two plants which were sown later than rest so less fruit so far but looking strong, good trusses set.
Sunray Gold - heritage large yellow variety - first picked today 214gms going to gloat before eating it for tea. Plants have about 8 or 9 fruit and look done for.
Burpees delicious - another heritage - one of the smaller ripe just picked 166gm. Has been the tops for flavour over a few years

All are from (well ventilated# )polytunnel or a greenhouse

# some horror came and jabbled their finger through the plastic last night.

Mojisola

I've grown Tumbler for the first time this year and am disappointed that the skins seem very tough. What are yours like?

Gardener's Delight is our favourite and we like Shirley for a bigger tomato.

Mooksville

First tomatoes from a Sungold this week - lovely flavour, very impressed and looking forward to the next picking! Moneymaker, Gardener's D and Sunrise? still to ripen...all grown outside.

MrsBartolozzi

I'm growing gardener's Delight, and was very slow to get going this year and planted them quite late. Still, got my first ripe one yesterday, and 2 today, probably 3-4 tomorrow or Saturday and loads of greens to come! Ooh, isn't it exciting (certainly beats my pathetic brocolli all eaten by caterpillars.)
Oh and they taste divine! I was kidding myself that the supermarket's Finest/TTD was as good as these!
I'm going to grow bigger ones next year alongside GD so look forward to reading the rest of this thread to decide which ones!

To those with few ripe tomatoes, they start to go red once they finish growing, so it probably won't be long before you are picking lots.

sillywilly

Thanks for the replies. I think we just have to have a bit more patience. July down here has been the worst in my memory - we live 10 min walk from beach and haven't been down once!

Torrential rain last night - started off sunny this morn, not a cloud in the sky but now covered!!

Looking forward to eating the toms - in September! However quite a few bunches have now all turned to toms and no flowers and they show signs of yellowing so I guess they are starting to ripen off.

humphriess

Mojisola - i bought tumbling toms for the first time this year, and the skins on mine are very tough as as well. taste nice though

also trying to grow 2 other varieties - one was given to so no idea what it is lots of green tomatoes on it though so fingers crossed.
The other variety is Golden sunrise - not sure if i planted them too late - thye are outdoors and have only grown to approx 1 foot, hardly any flowers on them and in the last tow weeks they have started to rot - can anybody work out if they are diseased or if its the weather? There are black patches on the lower stems some of the lower leaves just rotted in the awful rain, some of the higher leaves seem to have curled up and gone brown. Other leaves seem ok at the moment? Does anybody know if these are doomed or not? is there anything i can do except remove bad leaves asap? how do i protect the other toms?

Mojisola

humphriess wrote: »

Mojisola - i bought tumbling toms for the first time this year, and the skins on mine are very tough as as well. taste nice though

also trying to grow 2 other varieties - one was given to so no idea what it is lots of green tomatoes on it though so fingers crossed.
The other variety is Golden sunrise - not sure if i planted them too late - thye are outdoors and have only grown to approx 1 foot, hardly any flowers on them and in the last tow weeks they have started to rot - can anybody work out if they are diseased or if its the weather? There are black patches on the lower stems some of the lower leaves just rotted in the awful rain, some of the higher leaves seem to have curled up and gone brown. Other leaves seem ok at the moment? Does anybody know if these are doomed or not? is there anything i can do except remove bad leaves asap? how do i protect the other toms?

That's a shame about the skins on Tumbler but at least I know it's not something I'm doing.

For your other plants, I think you need to check out potato blight to see if it's that.

frivolous_fay

If tomatoes have gone / are starting to go orange, does that mean they won't get any bigger?

Mojisola

frivolous_fay wrote: »

If tomatoes have gone / are starting to go orange, does that mean they won't get any bigger?

Yes. Once they've started ripening, that where the energy goes. Are they smaller than you were expecting?

frivolous_fay

Mojisola wrote: »

Yes. Once they've started ripening, that where the energy goes. Are they smaller than you were expecting?

Mm yes, my 'Alicante' has a couple of orange toms that are basically oversized cherry size! But then MiL did seem to have lost track of her plant labelling...