Post by Yoris on Aug 13, 2018 15:28:42 GMT -7
Okay, so I harvested a couple ripe Coldset tomatoes. They took a while to ripen, but the plant has otherwise done well.
The pictured fruits here look pinkish, but that is not the color the fruits were. They were a rich red color.
The taste was interesting. It was a watery taste with those burned tomato overtones you sometimes get. It was kind of mild. It wasn't unpleasant, but I prefer most of the other tomatoes I've tried, this year. It didn't have much tang. It was juicy. The fruits didn't seem prone to splitting.
The plant was almost dry farmed. So, this was an unexpected flavor profile.
If sunscald is your concern, this is a good choice, since the leaves cover the fruits very well. However, that may make them more difficult to find (since you have to look under the leaves for them).
The plant is kind of small, but not the smallest by any means. Production seems decent. Fruit-size is decent. The fruits in the picture are smaller than most on the plant, I believe.
The plant has been holding up well (much better than average) in the heat/drought/aridity with black plastic. Many tomatoes had curling leaves and stunted growth (seemingly from the heat provided to the soil by the black plastic in daily ~100° F. temperatures every day for a long time; although temperatures have just dropped a few degrees—it's in the 90's every day on the 10-day forecast now).
We have black plastic down to keep the weeds out and reduce watering needs. My analysis is that black plastic is very helpful earlier in the season, but it doesn't seem to be an advantage later in the season. I think mulch would be a solution that the plants would enjoy more.
The pictured fruits here look pinkish, but that is not the color the fruits were. They were a rich red color.
The taste was interesting. It was a watery taste with those burned tomato overtones you sometimes get. It was kind of mild. It wasn't unpleasant, but I prefer most of the other tomatoes I've tried, this year. It didn't have much tang. It was juicy. The fruits didn't seem prone to splitting.
The plant was almost dry farmed. So, this was an unexpected flavor profile.
If sunscald is your concern, this is a good choice, since the leaves cover the fruits very well. However, that may make them more difficult to find (since you have to look under the leaves for them).
The plant is kind of small, but not the smallest by any means. Production seems decent. Fruit-size is decent. The fruits in the picture are smaller than most on the plant, I believe.
The plant has been holding up well (much better than average) in the heat/drought/aridity with black plastic. Many tomatoes had curling leaves and stunted growth (seemingly from the heat provided to the soil by the black plastic in daily ~100° F. temperatures every day for a long time; although temperatures have just dropped a few degrees—it's in the 90's every day on the 10-day forecast now).
We have black plastic down to keep the weeds out and reduce watering needs. My analysis is that black plastic is very helpful earlier in the season, but it doesn't seem to be an advantage later in the season. I think mulch would be a solution that the plants would enjoy more.