Blight Resistant Tomatoes

From this list I’ve grown
Crimson Crush. Good taste, but nothing special
Nagina plum. Nice balance of acid and sweet. Heavy cropper but late to get going
honeymoon. Omg!! Awesome tomato. And a very good cropper for a beefsteak
Cocktail crush. Taste is ok, will grow again but just a few plants as I prefer larger tomatoes

can I recommend Oh Happy Day. Good cropper, beautiful taste. Pennard plants do a good selection of blight resistant seeds

 

This year I’ve had blight on my blight resistant outdoor plants but swift removal of the leaves has left the fruit mostly unaffected and I’ve been picking these since august. So, yes, blight resistant varieties can be affected by blight but it’s not the wholesale destruction of the plant and you’ll still get a good crop.

 

I think I've only got about 15 or 16 containers in my stockpile, plus some weighed out in self seal poly bags with the water addition marked on them. I got around half of them for 30p each reduced to clear just before it was 'banned'.

 

I've sprayed my outdoor Red Alerts three times with Bordeaux Mixture and there's hardly a trace (if any) of BM on them, despite having hardly any rain since starting to spray them.

Today's pick of Red Alerts (not many left to ripen on the plants now and still no blight). Red Alert often get listed together with blight resistant varieties because they have few, small leaves, an open habit and very early so many tomatoes can (hnormally) be harvested before blight arrives.



Tomatoes grown undercover are different and will stay covered in it, as will the inside of polytunnel covers and greenhouse glass.

 

Bit late to this thread, but I grew Primabella this year with no blight problems. I also grew Koralik F1 and some of these got blight. That was actually helpful because the Primabella didn't show any problems at all and I wouldn't have realised it was a bad year otherwise. Tastewise, the Primabella were quite acidic but with good flavour.

 

Well, I think they taste lovely!

It's a bit difficult to describe taste -I think Primabella are "richer" in flavour than Koralik but also more acidic so they are nice in a salad. They cook down in to a tangy sauce. I would say that I prefered them to Koralik, yes. Primabella are also quite a bit larger despite them both being cherry types.

I forgot to say that I grew them outdoors in the ground.

 

I always found Koralik rather insipid, and gave up growing them when the lot got wiped out by blight. Think I''ve read somewhere that they're not resistant against the latest strains of late blight. They are also non-F1 and seed will grow true, not that I'd want to bother growing them.

Primabella, being a 'cherry' tomato appears very interesting, although I'd describe that size as a 'salad' tomato. But at £2.99 for 5 seeds/60p each from T&M [1] they appear rather expensive, although I grow lots of Suncherry Premium F1 cherry tomatoes at 25 - 30p each seed.

A tip to reduce costs is to sow some early, grow on under cover and let all the sideshoots grow big enough for use as cuttings before removing, producing a load of extra plants for free (my favourite price). Taking this into account I might be ableto justify a packet of seed for next year.

Looking at seed seller's images of truss sizes, they all appear to be the same photo of a truss of 10 tomatoes. As sellers tend to use illustrations of the maximum possible number of toms that professional growers can achieve, @esthersym could you confirm what sort of truss sizes you had?

[1] Or Tomato Seed 'Primabella' £2.50 for 5, or £3.99 for 10 Tomato Seeds - Primabella | The Organic Gardening Catalogue but a high P&P charge.

 

That's a good idea, do you pinch out the main growing shoot?

 

I've only done that when a plant has been very slow in making sideshoots.

 

Did they show the plants, and if so what was the truss size like? There appears to be only one image available online, this is the uncropped version

This place has them listed at £0.00 (free, my favourte price). TOMATO Merrygold F1