Supermarket Tomatoes - Page 2

Garf · July 10, 2014

Most of them are on the small side, a few are cherry size.

loulac · July 11, 2014

This is a copy of a post I sent on a different thread

Reading the labels on supermarket tomatoes can give you fits of anger (at least in France).

Professional growers don’t hesitate to pick up old names to sell new hybrids : French fans are howling when they see the tomatoes below labeled traditional oxhearts !

Syngenta, Fourstar, De Ruiter are selling F1 hybrids labeled oxhearts

Fortunately tomato lovers on all continents do their best to protect old varieties.

lexusnexus · July 13, 2014

Glad you are on the mend, Garf. Those 'maters look great.

Dan

spuriousmonkey · July 13, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by loulac

This is a copy of a post I sent on a different thread

Reading the labels on supermarket tomatoes can give you fits of anger (at least in France).

Professional growers don’t hesitate to pick up old names to sell new hybrids : French fans are howling when they see the tomatoes below labeled traditional oxhearts !

Syngenta, Fourstar, De Ruiter are selling F1 hybrids labeled oxhearts

Fortunately tomato lovers on all continents do their best to protect old varieties.

I just came from a Finnish supermarket and they were selling exactly those tomatoes on the left as coeur de boeuf.

Garf · August 1, 2014

These are the latest harvest of plants 3&4.

Garf · August 5, 2014

With heavy rains, half the remaining tomatoes have split. #2 plant has died. A few remain intact.

Garf · September 5, 2014

Plant #4 has some life left in it. I have 4 green babies growing now. After #2 plant died, the remaining 2 plants are barely hanging on. I hope nothing gets these new tomatoes.

zero244 · September 5, 2014

Well I don't know how they taste but they certainly look like grocery store tomatoes.

Worth1 · September 5, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by zero244

Well I don't know how they taste but they certainly look like grocery store tomatoes.

As they should.

A person wouldn't expect anything less.

Worth

Garf · September 13, 2014

As of today I have 6 green babies. There are still a few blooms left. The earlier tomatoes tasted good. Hope these do too.

green_go · September 13, 2014

I grew this year a supermarket orange grape tomato which is sold under the generic name “Zima”.
The produced fruits seem to be very similar to supermarket fruits. The taste is very sweet – as sweet as Sun Sugar which I am growing this year as well. But the skins are very thick – much thicker than Sun Sugar's. For that reason, I will not grow it again.
The plant is huge – it rivals the Coyote, my biggest tomato plant which is more than 8 feet tall.
And production is incredible – I was tired of those orange grapes, every single flower produced a fruit and the clusters were numerous and big. Some pictures of “Zima” (note that this is a single plant grown in multiple stems ):

NarnianGarden · September 14, 2014

Yes, that's the 'commercial vigor' there. I'm growing a similar looking one from a supermarket, and they're shaped the same way, taste mellow and seet when golden ripe. The thick skin is a must for a supermarket sold variety as well as great productivity.
Both supermarket tomatoes I have grown had thick skins and long, long trusses full of fruit, and the taste hasn't been bad either.

Redbaron · September 14, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by loulac

Syngenta, Fourstar, De Ruiter are selling F1 hybrids labeled oxhearts

You expected ethical behavior from them?

Garf · September 22, 2014

One of the 6 tomatoes on plant #4 is beginning to blush. Looks promising. Plant #3 has no leaves on it but the stems are still green, so I will leave it for now. Plant #1 has new leaves and a few blossoms on it. Temps should start falling soon so there is hope for the remaining plants survival. Remember, this is Miami.

Tracydr · September 27, 2014

Last year, I was in a wheelchair and didn't get my garden cleaned up until the spring. I had volunteer tomatoes, chard, kale. Everywhere! Birds or irrigation water must have carried the seeds all over because many of the tomatoes were growing in places nowhere close to where I originally planted.
Celery and parsley always seem to volunteer for me, once I get a patch going.
Garf- Hope your hip surgery recovery is going well! I had stem cells implanted in both knees last year. Big, difficult surgeries but now at least I can stand, walk and garden. Still some pain but nothing like before. I have a bad bone disease that kills the joints, in both knees and ankles. It's usually in the hips and usually only one. I'm the rare, .001% of all cases.
I recently bought a piece of horseradish root from the grocery to plant. I rooted a bunch of lemon grass from the Asian store once and had huge lemon grass plants all over!

July 13, 2014	#18
lexusnexus Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: MD Suburbs of DC, Zone 7a Posts: 500	Glad you are on the mend, Garf. Those 'maters look great. Dan __________________ Dan Last edited by lexusnexus; July 13, 2014 at 08:24 AM.

September 13, 2014	#26
green_go Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Canada, Ontario, z5a Posts: 142	I grew this year a supermarket orange grape tomato which is sold under the generic name “Zima”. The produced fruits seem to be very similar to supermarket fruits. The taste is very sweet – as sweet as Sun Sugar which I am growing this year as well. But the skins are very thick – much thicker than Sun Sugar's. For that reason, I will not grow it again. The plant is huge – it rivals the Coyote, my biggest tomato plant which is more than 8 feet tall. And production is incredible – I was tired of those orange grapes, every single flower produced a fruit and the clusters were numerous and big. Some pictures of “Zima” (note that this is a single plant grown in multiple stems ): __________________ Gala

September 22, 2014	#29
Garf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miami, FL. Posts: 442	One of the 6 tomatoes on plant #4 is beginning to blush. Looks promising. Plant #3 has no leaves on it but the stems are still green, so I will leave it for now. Plant #1 has new leaves and a few blossoms on it. Temps should start falling soon so there is hope for the remaining plants survival. Remember, this is Miami. Last edited by Garf; September 22, 2014 at 01:42 PM.

July 10, 2014	#16
Garf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miami, FL. Posts: 442	Most of them are on the small side, a few are cherry size.

July 11, 2014	#17
loulac Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: France Posts: 554	This is a copy of a post I sent on a different thread Reading the labels on supermarket tomatoes can give you fits of anger (at least in France). Professional growers don’t hesitate to pick up old names to sell new hybrids : French fans are howling when they see the tomatoes below labeled traditional oxhearts ! Syngenta, Fourstar, De Ruiter are selling F1 hybrids labeled oxhearts Fortunately tomato lovers on all continents do their best to protect old varieties.

August 5, 2014	#21
Garf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miami, FL. Posts: 442	With heavy rains, half the remaining tomatoes have split. #2 plant has died. A few remain intact.

September 5, 2014	#22
Garf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miami, FL. Posts: 442	Plant #4 has some life left in it. I have 4 green babies growing now. After #2 plant died, the remaining 2 plants are barely hanging on. I hope nothing gets these new tomatoes.

September 5, 2014	#23
zero244 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Oregon Posts: 47	Well I don't know how they taste but they certainly look like grocery store tomatoes.

September 14, 2014	#27
NarnianGarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Finland, EU Posts: 2,550	Yes, that's the 'commercial vigor' there. I'm growing a similar looking one from a supermarket, and they're shaped the same way, taste mellow and seet when golden ripe. The thick skin is a must for a supermarket sold variety as well as great productivity. Both supermarket tomatoes I have grown had thick skins and long, long trusses full of fruit, and the taste hasn't been bad either.

September 27, 2014	#30
Tracydr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7 Posts: 3,207	Last year, I was in a wheelchair and didn't get my garden cleaned up until the spring. I had volunteer tomatoes, chard, kale. Everywhere! Birds or irrigation water must have carried the seeds all over because many of the tomatoes were growing in places nowhere close to where I originally planted. Celery and parsley always seem to volunteer for me, once I get a patch going. Garf- Hope your hip surgery recovery is going well! I had stem cells implanted in both knees last year. Big, difficult surgeries but now at least I can stand, walk and garden. Still some pain but nothing like before. I have a bad bone disease that kills the joints, in both knees and ankles. It's usually in the hips and usually only one. I'm the rare, .001% of all cases. I recently bought a piece of horseradish root from the grocery to plant. I rooted a bunch of lemon grass from the Asian store once and had huge lemon grass plants all over!