Topic: Crimson Crunch

[Tee Gee]

What a difference a month makes even a cold one like what we have just had.

These were the 'freebie' plants I received on the 22nd May:



Here are the same two plants today!

[galina]

Thanks for these pictures, your iris pictures and your general plot pictures.  I wish you'd write the definitive gardening book.  Or offer apprenticeships.  You are just so good at it!  Thank you for showing us.   

I am looking forward to eating reports of Crimson Crush - hope the hype really works out and you and others end up with a superior tomato with regards to blight and flavour. 

[Tee Gee]

I wish you would write the definitive gardening book

I have tried as you can see here

Http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Indexes/Bookshop.htm

I hope this reply does not constitute spamming.

I have avoided doing this in the past but the question was asked so I replied.

p.s. I will understand if the moderators remove this reply

Tg

[Paulh]

It's a useful site - there should be a permalink to it!

[Tee Gee]

There should be a permanent link to it

Thanks for the thought Paul


I seem to recall there is a permanent link somewhere in this file

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,46622.msg467405.html#msg467405

Failing that you could have a look at my signature

[BarriedaleNick]

Mine looked pretty shabby when they arrived but they have perked up no end.  Just not sure what the best possible test for them is - ideally on the plot with all the others but I have just about run out of space. 

[goodlife]

My CC look just like TeeGee's  first truss of flowers on and they are romping away as I type 
I've also taken few side shoot cuttings...once they have rooted I shall plant them outside..maybe one in bucket in sheltered spot and one or two planted in ground, somewhere really open that even if it doesn't fruit...at least the greenery is in prime position to get full hit of blight as and when it arrives.

[amphibian]

Mine are doing very well - I have fruit set on the first two trusses of each plant n my larger plants and my mini freebie ones have the first truss in flower.

healthy plants.

[Jayb]

Looking good Tee gee.

[galina]

Sutton's 2016 catalogue has just hit the doormat and Crimson Crush F1 seeds are on offer - 10 seeds for £3.99.  They claim that they are fully blight resistant. 

[Tee Gee]

Crimson Crush F1 seeds are on offer - 10 seeds for £3.99.  They claim that they are fully blight resistant.

Four pence a seed seems a bit expensive to me but then again they have gone like many other seed varieties have gone so I guess it is not surprising.

Just as a matter of interest what sort of results have you all had?

I have to say I am not overly impressed with the quantity I have had but the size and taste is acceptable.

I can't judge their disease resistance ( blight) because I haven't had it on the other varieties.

Perhaps it is pretty average results I have had that is making me think the seed are expensive.



But no matter I selected a nice sized fruit and saved the seeds from it meaning I have had free plants,free fruit and now free seeds so all in all I am quite satisfied with them.

Next year I will be growing them from the outset (seed) and they will get better growing conditions.

Because they arrived so late I just stuck them in a corner as I had no space where I was growing my other varieties.

So I guess these particular plants have not been looked after as much as the others so this could have influenced my final results.


Over to you............

[squeezyjohn]

I didn't like the fruits ... but it's been a pretty bad year for tomato flavour so maybe it's not easy to judge them on that.