Look up Reisetomate.
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I know the German name (thatās what I bought it under), if thatās what you mean. Or is there anything in particular?
Btw, many of my fruit are shaped like the one on the right in the first picture - round on the outside and lobes in the usual tip area. Most pictures of the Reisetomaten that Iāve seen, look more raspberry-shaped than just something that had a terribly misshapen flower. Is it possible that mine are a cross? Or is it likely just the typical marketing practice of hiding the ugly?
Tana, your pictures are not like the Reisetomate I have grown. Mine had more āgrapesā where yours is more pleated. See Zapotec Pleated for a comparison.
Reisetomate
Zapotec Pleated
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I must have bought a bastard, then. Maybe Iāll give it another shot from a different source.
I had some heirloom similar to that a few years back. My issue was the toughness of the skin between the lobes. It was almost inedible.
Fortunately, thatās not the case here. The skin is ironically so thin, that theyāre unfit to travel.
That should have clued me inā¦
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I tried growing Two Tasty this year. Plants outvigored Sungold (donāt know vigor comparison to Sweet/super sweet 100, cage fell over). I had a freak rainstorm mid August that dropped 4 inches in 24hrs and made the day before drizzly. I also left drip irrgation on. My Two Tasty were the only tomatoes not cracked. I also have another one sprawling across the back half of my tomato patch without a cage and its ripe tomatoes that were laying on the ground are fine as well.
Took these Aug 22, during the drizzly day before the real rain.
You can eat them when they still have sort of a purple blush up near the stem, but then the juice from around the seed is high acid. Theyāre fairly sweet when they look like this:
I prefer Sweet/Super Sweet 100 with its thinner skin and edge on sweetness, but these Two Tasty are just loaded and seem problem free.
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Question for those who save seeds. I have a bunch of varieties that I was fermenting seeds for, but then go busy and have left them for probably 2 weeks. Should they still be viable? I normally do 5 days, sometimes up to 7, but never this long.
I would just start new batches, but some of the varieties may already be done for the year and unfortunately some are from crosses Iāve been saving that I canāt really get anywhere else.
I know I can give it a try and hope, but was just curious if others had fermented that long and what the results were like.
Thanks!
I donāt want to raise your hopes up too much, but every year I grow monsters that rise from the primordial soup which is our concrete-basin compost. They bake and rot, and yetā¦
ā¦at least one in some hundreds germinate.
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Iāve left tomato seed fermenting too long. It resulted in very low germination rate. You can find out pretty easy by cleaning the seed and drying them for a few weeks. Then germination test a few.
tldr: I donāt recommend leaving tomato seed fermenting more than 5 days.
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We have some stump of the world that are green right now, I am super excited to try them. If the squirrels donāt find a way in that is.
This is our second year growing black strawberry tomatoes, and we have found that they germinate well, the plant looks super healthy and they give us a lot of fruit, but they just donāt seem to have a lot of flavor. We much prefer our super sweet 100s.
What do you think of your black strawberry tomatoes?
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The black strawberry tomatoes are on the blander side. As you said its also one of my most prolific plants in the patch, but the last one left in the bowl. Iāve been using them mostly to cut up for toppings and cook into omelets and other things to use them up. Think next year Iām going to try some black or chocolate cherry or something different in place of it.
Iāve only tried a few black cherry tomatoes off our one plant but they werenāt much better than the black strawberry and also the germination rate was horrible.
Have you tried super sweet 100s theyāre amazing. People sing the praises of Sungold too, but I havenāt tried it yet. I didnāt want to grow hybrids, but if I have to pick between super sweet 100s or black strawberry, I will take super sweet 100s every time. The super sweet 100s donāt even get harvested. They go straight from plant to mouth around here. No salt needed. The squirrels are stealing green tomatoes and leaving the black strawberry tomatoes alone lol.
I will go see if I have some seeds left. They were a new packet this year, so the seeds werenāt old. The black strawberry tomato seeds were old and every single one of them sprouted lol.
Right now, our black cherry tomato plant has some green fruits on it. Would you like me to take pictures of the plant?
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For sure, I love seeing pics of what everyone is growing and eating! Black cherry tends to be favorable to many people that grow it.
Super sweet 100s Iāve grown pretty much every year and agreed they are a great variety for me as well. I grew sweet million this year instead, they seem pretty much identical to me in every respect. First year growing sungold and I think itās very similar to sun sugar which is what Iāve grown most every year and both are excellent as well. I grew some apricot zebra cocktail tomatoes that are larger but they have been my favorite this year for small tomatoes.
Biggest letdowns this year were my dwarf tomato project tomatoesāI chopped them all down already due to horrible blight. May have been my faultānot pruning them up high enough off the ground since I figured they stay a little shorter to begin withā¦ but Iāve read they are a bit more disease proneā¦Iāll try again next year and prune the bottoms higher and see.
Black cherry tomato plant.
I have new big dwarf making tomatoes now it really sprouted late right around when the pepper sprouted so maybe it needs more warmth to get an earlier start.
I love that tomato plant though and I havenāt even tried its fruit.
Itās a hardy little thing reminds me of a stick of broccoli when itās little.
I am not a fan of Anna Russian. Itās so wimpy! Itās sprouted along time ago and still no flowers and just a wimpy plant. Iāll never try growing it again.
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I planted 10 seeds of black cherry tomatoes and only got one plant. I didnāt have a good germination rate, but I did on other tomatoes.
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I tried Sweet Million last year and I didnāt like it as much as Super Sweet 100 and Sweet 100. To me it seemed like the greater resistance to cracking came at the cost of making the skin a little thicker.
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Thanks for the input on that. I think I will stick with super sweet 100s.
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