sungella tomatoes

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I see that my  previous comments re Sungella were controversial!! Let me expand my views.
Firstly, people have different taste buds. I find that when tasting tomatoes, there are three individual components to the taste that I can separate out.
1. The sweetness.      2. The amount of acidity, ie tangyness, and   3. other overflavours which give either a clear and clean taste, or a muddy taste.
I had grown Sungold for several years, and am not surprised that it regularly comes top in blind taste testings. I rate it high in sweetness, high in tangyness, and has a clear and clean aftertaste.
When I read the blurb in T&M catalogue, I rushed to try it. Grown in exactly the same conditions of Growbags and tomato fertilizer in a Greenhouse, it had a completely different taste from Sungold, and apart from the colour, it was certainly not "a larger fruited Sungold". I found it bland with little tangyness.
Checking the T&M catalogue again, I see that it does describe Sungella as having "low acidity", which matches my tasting notes.
If that is what you like, you will be happy.
I certainly agree that growing tomatoes outdoors in cooler temperatures, seems to increase the amount of acidity in them. This far North in Glasgow, it reduces the length of the growing season and the yield.

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