Interesting name. I’ll have to research it.
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First year growing them. They are productive as heck. Not much acid, mostly sweet. Super meaty and juicy, low seeds. Supposed to be a medium sized tomato but mine are all very large for whatever reason. I’ll probably grow them again next year.
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I’ve got one kind like that acid undertone in the flavor, they are a plain red round that I’ve been replanting for a long time and I don’t know the variety name anymore. they have potato leaves and are indeterminate and the tomatoes vary in shape from apple like to flat kind of. plain reds, they crack easy though.
two plants next to each other from the same seed. none are ripe yet, they are ready here beginning of Sept usually. in Eugene Oregon they were ready in August, i planted them there in my first garden years ago. if i get enough seed from them i can send some if you’d like? they’re not remarkable in any way, i mainly grow them for the fact that I’ve always done it! they make up a good bulk of sauce/salsa for me, they’re mainly for canning because of that acid flavor
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@resonanteye I have PM’d you. I would be interested to try a few of those seed if you get enough. Thanks!
Sandra
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In case you haven’t dug it up yet … my understanding is that Girl Girl’s Weird Thing was grown out by a woman who had a dog named Girl Girl. She planted some green zebra tomatoes, and one plant was throwing larger fruit that weren’t true. Her dog enjoyed eating tomatoes and kept stealing them off that one plant, so the grower decided to give it a try and found it to be delicious (it is!). She shared it with others as Girl Girl’s Weird Thing, and the variety has spread. It often makes some very large tomatoes.
I grow it most years, and it is similar to a green when ripe tomato flavor-wise (usually a bit sweeter/richer) with a really good taste and a little acid to keep it interesting. I’m a big fan of that flavor in tomatoes and usually grow Cherokee Green and have also started growing Malachite Box - both of which are vigorous, productive (for an open pollinated “heirloom” type) and very tasty.
For a tomato similar in appearance to GGWT that is less likely to have “innies”, try Kazula 25, which has a very similar look, makes more moderately sized fruit with more consistent shape for easier slicing. It is equally delicious. I had someone taking care of my garden while out of town this summer and she specifically asked about Kazula 25 after tasting a bunch of the heirlooms I’m growing.
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Beauty king - all from one plant today. Decent flavor, not sure I’ll grow next year though
Sweet sue dwarf - flavor is a bit bland for me
Kelloggs breakfast - biggest one was almost 2# today
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Went to the Rutgers tomato testing today. My favorites are highlighted. I tried a lot of tomatoes today and my favorites were:
Sun bunch: good tomato flavor cherry tomato
Sun gold select: good balance of sweet and sour
Lemon sugar: straight sweet and nice
Woodstock intense tomato soup like flavor
Yellow Mimi: intense floral like flavor
I haven’t checked the forum for other’s favorites yet, but wanted to share my experience. Ask questions while my memory is fresh 
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Those are some cool looking 'maters!!
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that Phil’s one i might need to try to find seed for.
Sounds like you’ve got quite the lineup already! I’m keeping it simpler this year — planning on Black Krim and Sungold for tomatoes, plus a couple jalapeños and sweet bells for peppers. For eggplant I’m trying Ping Tung Long since I’ve heard it holds up well in the heat. Curious about that Casper one you mentioned — mushroomy flavor sounds intriguing. Hope you get a solid harvest before the bugs move in!
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It’s available from bakers Creek https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-phil-s-one (this is where they got their seeds from but there may be others that are cheaper / better)
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Dang, I was going to go this year but my wife couldn’t get out of work early. Looks like they had some interesting varieties and more dwarflves than last year! I just know that you have to bring your own salt lol.
Did ok on peppers this year, considering the guy at the plant store wouldn’t charge me for his plant starts because he thought they looked so rough! Got some pretty funny shape and color combinations where some of them got shaded out.
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I had high hopes for myself this year but I blink and its now September.
I ended up with a purple tomato and some mislabeled sunrise sauces that turned out to be a random beefsteak type.
A few random ones hanging around here and there too and some random ones growing out of random pots because i decided to throw them in the compost and then use said compost as top dressing 
Apparently I have no idea how many plants i have but they take over 3 hours to hand water daily.
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oh i know that feeling of instant September
I’ve got about a dozen eggplants growing now finally. my trifele black tomatoes and iraqi heart did well this year. no big yellows yet despite planting out a lot! they are pale green. no blush. san marzanos came in enough quantity that I’ll have at least one canner load of sauce. Amish paste could not keep up this year though those and baylor did well last year.
my green south american bee tomatoes, pointy cherry tomato type, returned on their own and made good working snacks again.
peppers are gangbusters, I’ve made one gigantic batch of cowboy candy, and 3 strings to dry, and narrow cayenne drying for flake, and have some in the fridge in vinegar and oil with spices for dressings later. my shishitos were very strange this year. some were sweet, others were like eating burning doom! no idea why. all from the same source packet?
dozens of them out there and they’re still flowering, and have peppers on them. I’ll try to overwinter one of each kind again in the cool side of the greenhouse. only one big ancho made it from last year.
one of the gifting strings I’m drying to give away.
the field of dreams:
a small area of eggplants and peppers which the tromboncino saw as an opportunity:
Japanese black trifele, edelrot, and a small round of the same unlabeled seeds i plant ever year, and an over ripe little “bee tomato”
a day in which i picked what felt like a whole lot of peppers and found tomatoes blushing. that pointy one is the iraqi heart. the others are my regular unlabeled reds and some san marz.
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So i have what seems to be a pretty obscure question, and i haven’t found a reliable answer, so i thought i would ask here. In some plants, pruning leaders and small fruit 4-6 weeks before first frost makes the remaining fruit ripen faster, hopefully before the frost. Apparently it changes the “source sink relationship” of carbohydrates. I am trying to figure out if tomatos are one of these plants. My reason for doubt is that i thought tomato ripening is driven by ethylene, rather than sunlight.
I’ve found various blogs that say yes and that say no without backing up the conclusion, but i haven’t found any reliable sources (e.g. extension service material) that recommend late pruning.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for figuring this out? Or maybe just reassure me that i am overthinking it?
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Just learned about Pumpkins on a stick (eggplant). Anyone grow these? Please post pictures!
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They remind me of the little candy pumpkins they sometimes habe with candy corn. Not growing them, but they are very cool looking.
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