Post by Yoris on Aug 28, 2018 14:07:57 GMT -7
I grew the Virginia Sweets tomato, this year.
It was one of the varieties to struggle in the conditions I had it in, but it did better than most of those (in part, I believe, due to the pruning off of curled foliage I did on this plant earlier in the season).
Yes, a good number of our tomato plants had curling foliage that had turned upside down, with prominent veins. This foliage doesn't recover, btw. Pruning it off seems to prevent the plants from getting stunted, and allows them to grow new and healthy growth. As for the cause, I don't know; maybe it's the leafhoppers (I did see a few), but it seems more of a problem in certain temperatures (not the hottest ones).
Whatever the case, I just harvested five ripe fruits, today. I ate them all. Most (all but one—that one wasn't the smallest one) had the texture of a really good, ripe (not crunchy) peach. However, I was disappointed to find that they weren't sweet. In fact, notwithstanding how soft they were, by the taste, you'd think the first one I ate wasn't ripe. The one I thought was over-ripe had by far the most red in it. The best-tasting one wasn't that one, but the one with the next-most red in it, probably (that one was probably the sweetest, too).
It's probably supposed to be a non-acidic tomato (and it tasted like one), but it did have some acid to it. Just about everything did, this year, though.
Most of the fruits had under-developed seeds. Some had splitting. One had catfacing.
All in all, if it were sweeter, I might grow it again and try to acclimatize it more. I didn't want to save seeds from these fruits, since most were under-developed; maybe I'll do it from future fruits (there are more growing).
This is my first tomato with bicolor flesh that actually turned out to have bicolor flesh. All in all, I'm glad I grew it.
It was earlier than Old German, and the plant seems to be faring better. Old German was much bushier and initially looked better, but I don't think it liked the heat from the black plastic.
[HASH]bicolor
It was one of the varieties to struggle in the conditions I had it in, but it did better than most of those (in part, I believe, due to the pruning off of curled foliage I did on this plant earlier in the season).
Yes, a good number of our tomato plants had curling foliage that had turned upside down, with prominent veins. This foliage doesn't recover, btw. Pruning it off seems to prevent the plants from getting stunted, and allows them to grow new and healthy growth. As for the cause, I don't know; maybe it's the leafhoppers (I did see a few), but it seems more of a problem in certain temperatures (not the hottest ones).
Whatever the case, I just harvested five ripe fruits, today. I ate them all. Most (all but one—that one wasn't the smallest one) had the texture of a really good, ripe (not crunchy) peach. However, I was disappointed to find that they weren't sweet. In fact, notwithstanding how soft they were, by the taste, you'd think the first one I ate wasn't ripe. The one I thought was over-ripe had by far the most red in it. The best-tasting one wasn't that one, but the one with the next-most red in it, probably (that one was probably the sweetest, too).
It's probably supposed to be a non-acidic tomato (and it tasted like one), but it did have some acid to it. Just about everything did, this year, though.
Most of the fruits had under-developed seeds. Some had splitting. One had catfacing.
All in all, if it were sweeter, I might grow it again and try to acclimatize it more. I didn't want to save seeds from these fruits, since most were under-developed; maybe I'll do it from future fruits (there are more growing).
This is my first tomato with bicolor flesh that actually turned out to have bicolor flesh. All in all, I'm glad I grew it.
It was earlier than Old German, and the plant seems to be faring better. Old German was much bushier and initially looked better, but I don't think it liked the heat from the black plastic.
[HASH]bicolor