more Odoriko pics

Most of my mine are forming like this one, with 3 fruits

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This the 3rd cluster, responding well to Bloom products

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Another 5 flower one with 3 fruits forming.

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These are 1st fruits, slightly smaller because they were fighting for sunlight. In a sunnier spot now. Rusty curtain rod for Fe purposes, or at least that's how I'm selling it to myself. I like to repurpose and find a second or third life for items.

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Taste test coming soon. Gotta love Nov-December tomatoes with no greenhouse!

How marvelous-fresh tomatoes with Thanksgiving dinner!

Odoriko is a solid tomato, keeps great, practically blemish free, relatively prolific, and has a flavor that brings to mind a good commercial tomato, with a more complex flavor pattern. Right down the middle sort of taste, with a very slight acidic tone, kind of like Rutgers. And the medium sized fruits are similarly versatile. Best cluster had 5 fruits, all good size. I grew it alongside Cosm Volkov and Wes and flavor wise, Odoriko is a notch below CV but better than Wes.

Next post will have pics.

Cosmonaut Volkov is a hybrid-slayer. I can't tell it apart from Big Beef...until I eat one. BB is good; CV is better.

I like Wes, but I may drop it in favor of George Detsikas.

how about some updates
anything changed since...

A few changes. The Odoriko plants you see in #46 are still alive, consolidated into a large 20 gal container. And even though I planted 3 fresh plants, I kept the older ones because they put out the absolute best saladette to medium sized beauties that are packed with flavor, acid--just happiness in one mouthful. Today I gave that particular container a hefty dose of fertilizer and I sure hope they keep going, or at least put out new shoots.

I've tried Momotaro side-by-side with Odoriko, and in my garden Momotaro was slightly larger. The plant is also tougher, with substantially thicker stems and larger leaf coverage. Odoriko climbs and is somewhat thin. If you can dry farm them, go for Odoriko.