Tomato Growing Thread 2022

I gave my son 2 'Gardener's Delight' tomato plants back in May & I harvested at least a kilo of toms from them when I went up to water all his plants while he was on holiday with his family. That's at least 10 times more than I got from my TEN plants!

 

Just finished the paste with one sealed kilner and and two trays of ice cubes for freezing. I didn't think 10lbs would ever reduce but it did. Knock out taste and tomato intensity.

 

@JWK The great grandparent was gardeners delight along with indigo rose.

 

@JWK it has no name other than indigo red F3, now the seed will be F4 so will not be named until it stabilises . It is just an experimental cross, the yellow indigo F3 has much more anthocyanins expression, this red one may yet...It lost a lot of it in the F2 to F3 stage. The growth though is interesting as it good thick vines and I haven't seen the roots yet but imagine they are large. I shall get to have a proper taste soon thou' :-)

 

@JWK yes it is, but the hard work is growing out enough of each cross to see all the variations. I can't do that so may have to backtrack if I am not entirely happy, this is just for fun though.

 

@JWK This year's cross, apart from the one I mistakingly ate (oops) is SMFL x Tasmanian Chocolate so I might have to grow out quite a few plants to see what variations there are. I really love the multiflora trait but I also love a number of the traits of the Tasmanian Chocolate. The cross was fiddly as the flowers taking the pollen were not large. Again it's all a bit of fun.

 

First dwarf Parfait to ripen, the last tomato variety to ripen. A bit bland unfortunately, which is a shame. Also todays haul. The largest was azoychka at 390g.

 

If anyone is interested, this is a useful resource

Tomato Genetics Resource Center

(I was surprised however that the sage advice didn't seem to include not eating the fruit :-) )

 

Another resource regarding varieties

It's quite static now but to use just as a reference it has lots of information

Tatiana's TOMATObase - Heritage Tomatoes - Tatiana's TOMATOBase

 

JWK,

My new dehydrator arrived 2 days early so this morning we picked 5kg of cherry tomatoes and cleaned them and cut them in half, salted them and stacked them in the dehydrator. On your recommendation I've set the timer to 32hours at 60C.

I'll keep you informed as to how they look and taste when they are finished.



I assume the spacing will be OK as they shrink?



When they are finished I have some chilis to try!

Regards

Ademission

 

@Ademission will follow this if you post. Looks a great setup, let us know how it goes but looks great!