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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tonybloke on July 21, 2009, 23:37:48
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482 gms, or 1lb 1oz in old money.
Korol Gigantov.
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Boasting again !!! ::)
Seriously thats a whopper !! Well done !
Duke
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A few years ago I grew "Oxheart" an orange/yellow tomato from HSL and one weighed over a Kg... sadly I stopped saving the seeds on one of the periodic culls... :-[
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I saved some of the seed, (before it became last nights bolognese!) I'll send you a few.
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Wow what a handsome monster!
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You're tempting fate - you know who's gonna be along in a minute! ;)
Nice tom.
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Nearly, Tony! Brandywine.
Would have grown on but the truss was breaking.
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Looking good Tim...
Did you send them Tony? Did I get them... senility has set in (here) I think! ::)
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:D
I got 2 2lb Spuds so far this year :o
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You weren't wrong Ceres... hit the ignore button... :-X
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Sadly yes. Hopefully Dan will be along soon.
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Just let it die.
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Looking good Tim...
Did you send them Tony? Did I get them... senility has set in (here) I think! ::)
did you want some seed david? if so, let me know and I'll send you some!!
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those tomatoes look lovely, what is the taste like? does it lose any flavour in the size?
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the large tom's I grow, I grow because they taste as good as the small ones!! ;)
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DONT CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK, NOT VERY NICE
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debster - it's not the size - it's the variety. And the way they are brought up.
See http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,49640.160.html - should be under Recipes.
Supposedly one of the best.
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ok so they are alarge variety rather then a large tomato from an ordinary variety must give them a go next year
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Tom, do they take an age to ripen and do you have to tie up trusses?
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the trusses of most of the very large tomatoes have only 3 - 6 fruit per truss, and yes, they do need tying to your support or they'll tear the truss off of the stem with their weight
(sometimes)
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Equally, if you get 20 or so largish standards, you'll need support.
I like the bendy wire stuff. Not cheap but reusable.
Very big Toms are not everyday useful. Best in sandwiches or, as seen elsewhere, special salads. But, of course, the 'paste' varieties make light work of cooking/preserving.
Flavour is not always better than stndards, but it's pretty damned good!
Vide Pineapple, John Hawkins. Caro Rich & - I hope - Summer Cider.
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Well done with your heavy tomatoes this season .
Mine are not very impressive this year
cant remember the name as they were a freebie .
:)
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Welcome to A4A Lynn :)
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Big is not always beautiful!
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Thanks Tony... they arrived today.. :)
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My biggest one this season was a Gregory Altai at 17oz.
Generally my tomatoes have been on the small size this year.
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I harvested a Black Krim today that weighed 1lb 1/2oz..... I remember getting a Supersteak (back when it was still called Jumbo Tom) to over 2lbs, but it was impracticably huge..... and I'd stripped the plant of flowers once I got that one set.....ATM we're getting a pound of tomatos a day out of an 8x6, mix of the Krims, Gardeners Delight and the Alicante and San Marzano have just joined in.... 12 plants......
chrisc
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I'm not growing as many large toms this year, because I was trying to get a greater succession of crops and the large toms seem to give a couple of trusses of big fruit then fizzle out! This year, 'Legend' has produced the biggest tomato that is almost ripe so far, and a mixture of other sizes as well which is useful. When I pick it , I'll weigh it! 8)
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Picked the big Legend tomato today.....weighed it...only 284g (about 10oz). It seemed so much bigger..... :-\
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Biggest this year..a Big Boy at 628g.
Not the best looking fella I must admit but they are tasty
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That's pretty good for a Big Boy (someone at that seed company must be sniggering surely)... I never got one much over a pound when I grew them.... see your getting the same slug (?) problem I've got.....
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Yep! Actually a snail - found the blighter tucking in just before I picked it. As I'm away for a week now I thought it would be a mush when I got back so picked perhaps a little early!
Gorra love the name though! ;D
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I once had a "Yellow Oxheart" at over a kg... but shssssss (he's still out there in cyberspace) ::)
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One of thjose "Pineapple" I picked this week was 477g... :)
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I know it's not big on an absolute scale but I had a 6 1/2 oz San Marzano off the last picking (all my toms are chopped down now, we need to GH to overwinter flowers in apparently :(....)
I make that 176 grammes for an italian cooking tomato....
I've sorted myself out four biggies for next year:
Black Krim (again)
Costoluto Fiorentino
Giant Spanish
Giant Spanish Yellow
Last two are punts in the dark but the seed seller calims you can get over 3Kg off the red version and a kilo and a bit for the yellow..... it appealed to the size queen in me :D
(must sort out the building of the polytuunnel soon, I've been offered some more space at ouir site so it looks like it's a go-er....)
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chriscross1966 - where are you getting the spanish seeds from? Searches mainly turn up giant spanish tomato fight... :)
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Brandywine produced some large ones and tasty, but I won't grow them again for the same reason someone said- too few fruits/plant and the plants are monsterously tall!
The "Anna Russian" produced a large fruit with hardly any seeds, extremely meaty without high shoulders like Brandywine has so there was less waste. The weird thing was the plants looked so frail early in the season with frondy leaves and I asked if they were dying. Once they got some growth they were sturdy enough and are supposed to get 1 lb. fruits though i didn't weigh ours.
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chriscross1966 - where are you getting the spanish seeds from? Searches mainly turn up giant spanish tomato fight... :)
Ebay... seller in spain with decent feedback.... There were a lot of seeds in the packet so if I can find a seedswap to join (or start one myself if I get bored this autumn) then I've got som=e spare... I'm getting som Korol Gigantov too... If I could grow a 2kg tomato next summer I'd be ecstatic.....
chrisc
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seeds in the envelope, addressed and stamped, on the way to oxford and london, in the post in the morning, have fun!!
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nice tomato.
Tim they not capable of letting things lie but that why they rather insult me here then meet me in person and insult me. But i will give them a chance in 2012 when I visit the UK.
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Cheers tony - woke up feeling awful this morning - you have cheered me up no end. ;D
@chriscross1966 - thanks for the tip - Ill be growing some Korol too next year and I'll check ebay out as well.
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nice tomato.
Tim they not capable of letting things lie but that why they rather insult me here then meet me in person and insult me. But i will give them a chance in 2012 when I visit the UK.
You won't catch me having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent ;)
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