we had a few really rough hot dry weeks, the last few days have been burning hot but grey like that. my peppers are roaring but my tomatoes are not
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I recently purchased some Crescendo peppers from Costco and we really like them and I looked them up and I guess they’re Ramiro peppers and might be heirloom?
I took seeds out of a yellow and orange in a red and I wish I would have taken them out of the chocolate one too, but I’ll keep looking for them at Costco to get a chocolate one.
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Tomatoes and peppers are starting to come on after a late start.
Chocolate Cherry tomato
2x Watermelon tomato
Boxcar Willie tomato, I think
Banana pepper
Tabasco pepper
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well it feels like overnight there’s green tomatoes all over.
my ground cherries and tomatillo have set
photos of the pepper/eggplant forests. there’s 3 patches like this, this is photos of 2 of em
and a few picture of flower and fruit in them. the astrakom eggplant already have tiny fruit, these are long purple that are flowering now. rosa Bianca got a flower forming now too, those come along late here but i like the taste better than the darker ones. peppers got a ton of flowers, small green peppers forming and in various stage of ripe.
i planted reientomate this year but see no sign of them now. might have mislabeled.
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I started some “Goldenberry” seeds from store bought fruit. Big ass plants.
There’s a bunch ripening at the bottom.
Long Purple eggplants are popping them out.
Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno
Ghost pepper? Or Reaper? It was one of the chemical warfare ones.
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Closing the loop, it was definitely BER. I started watering twice a day and the problem mostly stopped. Giving them bone meal with Ca now too.
My Super Sweet 100s and Sungold combined are now producing faster than my family can snack them down.
Black cherry is just getting going. Actually I’m skeptical this is black cherry, but that’s how it was labeled.
Cherokee Purple are starting to colour up. So exciting. One of the pots has more tomato than vine.
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I think yours is black cherry or close. Chocolate black cherry (Don’t know if different?) Was the first tomato I ever enjoyed raw/fresh eating by itself.
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Yeah, you’re probably right. Some of the photos I’d seen before were a lot more black but googling it now, most look like mine. They’re not very sweet and not at all smoky either but that could be the shady spot they’re in.
Mine have always been sweet-tart more complex flavor without that… tomato aftertaste of raw tomato. Which is why I like them. Lol.
I have never noticed a smoky flavor, however.
I planted CC but am still waiting to get any. (Plant every year.)
I have harvested half a paper plate of some other small ones I dont remember the name of.
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We grow Chocolate Cherry every year. Probably our favorite variety, prolific, and the fruit is is very good, smoky, and tart, and a little bit sweet. I’ve grown Black Cherry and it’s basically the same, maybe a bit darker than CC but not black. The plants get massive (~6ft) in my garden, so they need to be staked well.
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Black cherry is the viniest of my tomatoes this year for sure. Very long thin stems, not a lot of leaves. The fruits are significantly larger than Supersweet 100 and it seems good to let them hang a long time after they colour up.
I haven’t noticed the smoky flavour yet, but maybe that’s growing conditions. They’re partly shaded and it’s been quite a cool summer.
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Black Cherry didn’t seem to taste the same as CC the couple years I grew it. I’ve tried to grow purple /brown tomatoes and they don’t usually don’t do well, other than Black Brandywine. The other darks are disease magnets in my humid climate.
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More varieties coming in, including a couple Black Cherry, which I always grow and enjoy. Besides the few black cherries on the tray, the larger red egg-shaped red ones (technically pink I believe) are Shimafuri, which is a small plant with variegated foliage so fun to grow just for the plant and there are some Sleeping Lady and Velvet Night dwarf tomatoes I picked that are the larger ones just starting to blush. Then a few Sakura and Dr. Carolyn cherries. The last one that is just a tad smaller that Shimafuri and is bicolor (red with some orange blush toward the stem end) are a variety that wasn’t true (supposedly Black Prince) that I’ve enjoyed and kept going for a while. It is very tasty, productive and a nice “cocktail” size so I’ve kept it going for a number of years.
I usually graft all my larger tomatoes, but got tied up with stuff this Spring and didn’t and I can now see the results. Just weaker growth which leads to blight and septoria getting at them more aggressively. That extra vigor from the rootstock really helps them stay strong longer in my hot, humid 8A.
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@Fusion_power Darrel, does this look like a Mortgage Lifter to you? Last year, I had an F1 hybrid Mortgage Lifter, and they didn’t have such pronounced ribs.
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Is it supposed to be Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter? Because that is what it looks like. It is not Estler’s Mortgage Lifter.
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I keep trying different tomatoes to find that old-timey tomato flavor that is acidic with some sweetness, too. I just hate all these low acid tomatoes that are being bred. They taste flavorless to me. Does anyone have any thoughts on a tomato variety that tastes tangy and acidic with strong tomato flavor and not just sweet and vapid?
I sure do miss those old tomatoes from my youth. I wish I knew what varieties my parents planted, but I never thought to ask them back then.
Sandra
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What variety is that? I"ve had a lot of ripe tomatoes the last 10 days. Good crop this year, but they seem late.
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He mentioned it, Girl girl’s weird thing
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