Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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February 5, 2018 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Another selling point for Big Beef is 73 DTM.
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February 5, 2018 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
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Mountain Fresh is exceptional, Garden Treasure is very good too.
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February 5, 2018 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Corinth, texas
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Big Beef every year. The only hybrid I grow. Either six or twelve plants this year. I haven't made up my mind if I want a lot of tomatoes (six plants) the year or a truckload of tomatoes (twelve plants) this year.
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February 5, 2018 | #19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Metro Denver
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Oh my gosh- all the pics posted are making me salivate! What a cute Mom you have Nan! Andrey- I love learning about your tomatoes. Those varieties look amazing. Thanks for posting those.
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February 5, 2018 | #20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a)
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Thanks.
My question to all is about the flavor of Big Beef - how is the acid/sweet balance?
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1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR |
February 5, 2018 | #21 |
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February 6, 2018 | #22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Wow Andrey, those are beautiful photos!
Great looking tomatoes KarenO |
February 6, 2018 | #23 |
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February 6, 2018 | #24 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
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Big Beef again. It was my favorite hybrid as far as production and dependability for many years and the taste is better than most. For pure flavor in a hybrid I would go with Brandy Boy but it lacks the strong disease package that is what makes Big Beef so productive in areas where that disease tolerance is needed.
I would recommend limiting the number of stems for larger fruit size and feeding it regularly. It is an amazingly durable tomato plant that produces fairly early and continues through the hottest weather pumping out good tasting tomatoes. Bill |
February 6, 2018 | #25 |
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February 6, 2018 | #26 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
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Red Hybrids that I have grown and liked for many years. But not so much lately since I've moved and can only have someone else raise my plants and another person is supposed to do this/that, but I never know if that's been done.
Supersonic F1 Moreton Hybrid F1 Jet Star F1 Ramapo F1 Better Boy F1 Big Boy F1 The above mainly for great taste, great production, but they don't have the multiple disease tolerances as other newer ones,which is fine with me since the operative word is tolerance,not resistance. Here are some other suggestions , Google search/Tomatoville,to see what others have to say. https://www.google.com/search?q=Harr...w=1706&bih=815 Carolyn
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February 6, 2018 | #27 |
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Carolyn,
For many years, multiple Better Boy plants were the only tomato I grew. I loved them, but I never thought of them as beefsteak. Mine were simply decent sized red tomatoes. |
February 6, 2018 | #28 | |
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I agree that most of the time BB has round tomatoes, but not always. We grew many acres of both back on the farm where I was raised. So what can turn a normally round fruit into an oblate(flattened stem end beefsteak shape),the most common reason is lack of complete fertilization of the ovules in the tomato ovary.And there are other reasons having to do with the summer they were grown and the weather as well. Here is a link which describes other factors. https://www.google.com/search?q=fact...&bih=815&dpr=1 Hope that helps, Carolyn
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February 7, 2018 | #29 | |
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I have a friend with what seems like terrible clay soil that gets as a rock if dry (completely different place) and it's insanely fertile. Everything grows to gigantic sizes with exactly zero additions (it's still a new spot, things will probably not continue like this forever). Normal radishes grow like a beetroot, I helped him to set up a small garden and I overcrowded everything badly since I wasn't used to things growing like this. |
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February 7, 2018 | #30 |
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: North carolina
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I grew big beef last season for the first time and it produced better than any of the other tomatoes i had in my garden. I got 60 tomatoes from one plant that i kept up with the production. It tasted great and was a beautiful tomato. The plants lasted all the way into frost buy i sprayed weekly (the whole garden) with daconil and copper.
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