Ripe tomatoes

[Jayb]

Tomatoes have been so slow coming but quite a few ripe ones now

4 nice cherry sorts,
Purple Haze F3, not stable but lovely tasting, some plants give larger fruit. Beats Black Cherry hands down for me.
Blush is a new one to me this year, it looks gorgeous and has produced a good crop, sweet tasting.
Sweet Beverley, another new to me one, a pear shaped multiflora. Ok but not very sweet, perhaps in a sunnier year  :-\
Verde Claro, a very nice green when ripe cherry, deliciously sweet, mild tasting.

[Jayb]

[Stevens706]

Mine have been ripening slowly over the past 6 weeks, Jayb you had me twitching when you described Purple Haze as better that Black Cherry, nearly went for the seed catalogue. I think I have got my list of varieties to grow every year fixed and Black Cheery is one of them.

[Jayb]

Lol, I should have added perhaps that I'm not that big a fan of Black Cherry  :o
Sadly Purple Haze F1 is only available as plants and then only in America. They were bred by Keith Mueller and http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/releases/
I do think they are a great tomato though and can only imagine what the original is like. You are welcome to have some seed I've saved, although they may vary just slightly from one another, all the ones I've grown so far have been good.

[Jayb]

Picked this morning 1st picture, Dancing with Smurfs, a bit more red on them this year, but they might be a bit more shaded. Taste is good, sweet but on the mild side. They keep fairly well too. I've put a Sungold in for size.

2nd, Golden Crabapple one of Tom Wagner's creations. This is a lovely tasting large cherry, sweet with lots of flavour. I've another plant which is giving yellow cherries and the taste is slightly better.

3rd is Helsing Junction Blues another of Toms, look is very similar to Dancing with Smurfs although they are very slightly bigger and slower to ripen, taste is not as sweet but more tomatoey (sp) than DWS.

[Jayb]

Black Icicle, one of my favourite tomatoes from last year, this year the taste of the first few was nothing special, I'm hoping these will have improved. Great production with this variety.

[Jayb]

BomboneraF1, lovely rich colour, fruits I think are too big for a cherry, more of a saladette type. Fruit is very firm and keeps well, taste is reasonable and I think with more sunshine than we have had this year it would be better again. Produced a good crop in a polytunnel.

[Jayb]

Another firm fleshed variety Tigro F1, I like this one, very pretty striped fruit, good set of fruit. Similar to in looks and taste to Black Zebra Cherry and Green Tiger.

[Jayb]

More pictures of Sweet Beverley, Helsing Junction Blues and Verde Claro.

[goodlife]

You lucky b***er..those look delicious..I'm not even looking into my tomato GH anymore..totally disaster 
Those colours look lovely..particularly that green one..must be hard to decide when to pick them as they look like 'unripe green'..usually you get hint of yellow coming through with green types. Did you have to taste test for ripeness or do they show some change?

[Jayb]

Yes these ones have a clear skin so almost no yellowing. Ripe colour has a very subtle colour change, but it is there. Touch can be the best indicator though.
Verde Claro is one of Tom W varieties, very good, quite sweet though. Might be one of the ones I add to Seed Circle.

[nefertiti]

What exactly is a ripe tomato?  ......is just wasn' a year for tomatoes since i'm trying outdoor growing.
The only variety with a couple of ripe tomatoes was Tiny Tim (seeds saved last year). The current theory is that blight does not attack strait away these particular ones because they to small to notice.    Plus they don't get "leggy" so will start them extra early next year.  Wish me luck. or let just keep the fingers crossed for the weather!

[Jayb]

Yes hopefully the weather will be a kinder next year and blight will not be so widespread, well here's hoping for us all 

Some of the blight resistant toms are quite good, Lossetto and Koralik I found do well.

[Jayb]

Picked these this morning, the red looking ones are meant to be Sacher F1 a brown/ chocolate coloured one, but they don't look much like the pictures in the catalogue. For comparison I've added two BomboneraF1, smaller and a lovely dark colour.

[Jayb]

Two tomatoes that have done well here this year despite the grotty summer are Black Icicle and Pink Icicle, still quite a few more to come, if nothing zaps them before they are ripe!

[caroline7758]

Mine haven't been great, but Orkado, which was a 99p trial pack from T&M, have done quite well and have a good taste.

[saddad]

My cooking tomatoes... like "Yellow Oxheart" are just coming ripe... both have been @550g and another dozen or so that will ripen up in the house.. 

[galina]

My cooking tomatoes... like "Yellow Oxheart" are just coming ripe... both have been @550g and another dozen or so that will ripen up in the house.. 

Looking forward to seeing them when they have coloured up.

Some very special tommies there, JayB!

Here are some of mine:

The orange one is 'Persimmon', followed clockwise by dark pink 'Nectar Rose', 'Tasmanian chocolate' which looks a bit browner than the picture shows.  In the foreground is Red Boar with its fine golden stripes.

[galina]

Picked these this morning, the red looking ones are meant to be Sacher F1 a brown/ chocolate coloured one, but they don't look much like the pictures in the catalogue. For comparison I've added two BomboneraF1, smaller and a lovely dark colour.

Gosh, I see what you mean.  Hadn't studied this photo too carefully before - Sacher isn't supposed to look orange!!!  That's weird.

[galina]

And these

Charlie's Red Staker and Black Icicle

[Jayb]

Mine haven't been great, but Orkado, which was a 99p trial pack from T&M, have done quite well and have a good taste.

They sound a good variety, not one I've tried. Did you grow them outside?