High Tunnel 2017

[BigVanVader]

Hmm I have 4 but most of my tomatoes are around 6 ounces.

[AKmark]

Mat-Su will average 6-10 OZ the first couple will go over a pound sometimes. If you prune off a few tomatoes the size is 8-10 usually. The line is based on several good selections for different reasons. I think this year a selection in plant 8 stole the show taste wise, it was superior. Yield is another reason I selected others, with a good taste. All in all the line is pretty stable, but there can still be some great selections to be found here and there for taste.

[BigVanVader]

Originally Posted by AKmark

Mat-Su will average 6-10 OZ the first couple will go over a pound sometimes. If you prune off a few tomatoes the size is 8-10 usually. The line is based on several good selections for different reasons. I think this year a selection in plant 8 stole the show taste wise, it was superior. Yield is another reason I selected others, with a good taste. All in all the line is pretty stable, but there can still be some great selections to be found here and there for taste.

Well like I said Mark the taste was shockingly good. The acidic tomatoey taste I get from most reds wasn't there and I guess I would describe it as smooth tasting. Great texture and mouth feel with very balanced flavor. Great work! Now to see if my uber critical tomato expert wannabe customers like it

[AKmark]

Originally Posted by BigVanVader

Well like I said Mark the taste was shockingly good. The acidic tomatoey taste I get from most reds wasn't there and I guess I would describe it as smooth tasting. Great texture and mouth feel with very balanced flavor. Great work! Now to see if my uber critical tomato expert wannabe customers like it

Hey BVV, glad you liked the taste. If you got plant 11 could I get some seed from you? I cannot find that seed and lost all of mine to disease, so I would not save the seed anyway.

[BigVanVader]

Originally Posted by AKmark

Hey BVV, glad you liked the taste. If you got plant 11 could I get some seed from you? I cannot find that seed and lost all of mine to disease, so I would not save the seed anyway.

For sure, I have 3 #11's growing and I'm cloning some for fall growing so I will save a ton. I already have a small batch fermenting actually. Let me know the pref date you need them and how many and I will make sure I get them to you.

[AKmark]

Have I sent BB X Dester to you guys, or the backcross of that with F2 Mat-Su? This year I grew the F2 of of the back cross and F4 of BBX Dester. The back cross has a super taste, 95 days ripe from seed, beat Mat-Su by a solid week, Dester cross is great too, not as early as Mat-Su, maybe 110 from seed. The tastes are different, but excellent. My son calls the Back cross a western old fashioned tomato taste, whatever that means. He is 17, so cannot relate to Old Fashioned either. LOL He does know his tomatoes though, and is a real tomato snob.

[Cole_Robbie]

beat Mat-Su by a solid week

That's crazy talk! Mountain Fresh is 75 days, and my Mat-Su might be three weeks faster than that.

I will have to send you some Babushkin Potseluy. It's like a yellow Mat-Su.

[Cole_Robbie]

Rumi Banjan was a fun variety to grow. It is a good producer, but not as early as I would like for such a small-fruited variety. I didn't like the first one I tried, but I sampled a few riper fruit, and it is growing on me. The very ripest ones are definitely the sweetest. It has a unique look, and I think would be a good seller at market.

Most remarkably, the variety shows tolerance to my soil's fusarium wilt, not quite as much as the Mountain Fresh F1 next to it, but better tolerance than any OP variety I have grown in the parts of my garden that has fusarium the worst.

[tryno12]

Good looking tomato's Cole. Was wondering about OP? I thought that all tomato's were OP. I understood that to mean each blossom has a male and female part that required nothing more than a wind, shake, electric toothbrush, or a bee to pollinate - what am i missing? like a non hydrid heirloom is not OP?
Thanks
Pete

[Cole_Robbie]

each blossom has a male and female part that required nothing more than a wind, shake, electric toothbrush, or a bee to pollinate

The tomato flower is indeed "perfect," as you described, whether it is a hybrid or open-pollinated variety. OP is generally used to mean non-hybrid variety. It is a larger, more inclusive term than 'heirloom.'

[MissS]

Best tasting of the year! Then it's a good thing that you are saving seeds of this one, for sure.

[Cole_Robbie]

I sent out a lot of the Big Russian Red seeds over the winter. I hope other people have the same experience with it as I do.

Here's a box for market tomorrow. Mountain Fresh on the right, the rest are Mat-Su Express and Mr Bruno.

[BigVanVader]

Dam son! Looking good.

[wildcat62]

Bring on the bacon

[tryno12]

All look plenty well marketable to say the least, and if they taste as you say, I will be looking around this late fall for seeds!
Pete