Please Share Your Grow List...

[kilroyscarnival]

Nerd alert (research nerd that is): I attempted to rank them in terms of popularity.

Due to side notes, additions (F_, parentheticals, etc.) this probably isn't totally right, but... I copied all the posts from this thread, sorted the variety names, tried to normalize the spelling and abbreviations, and did a pivot table to see which were the most popular.

Here's what I have so far:

Rank Row Labels Count
#1 Dester 13
#2 Sungold 12
#2 Cherokee Purple 12
#4 Purple Dog Creek 11
#5 Black Cherry 10
#5 Terhune 10
#7 Indian Stripe 9
#8 Stupice 8
#8 Captain Lucky 8
#8 Blush 8
#11 Paul Robeson 7
#11 Black from Tula 7
#11 Amish Paste 7
#11 Amazon Chocolate 7
#11 Kosovo 7
#11 Green Zebra 7
#11 Carbon 7
#11 Indigo Rose 7
#19 DIXIEWINE 6
#19 PURPLE RUSSIAN 6
#19 Perth Pride 6
#19 Ananas Noire 6
#19 Casino Chips 6
#19 Stump of the World 6
#25 Costoluto Genovese 5
#25 Dr. Wyche’s yellow 5
#25 Green Giant 5
#25 GOOSE CREEK 5
#25 San Marzano 5
#25 BLACK KRIM 5
#25 Chocolate Cherry 5
#25 Rosella Purple 5
#25 New Big Dwarf 5
#25 ORANGE STRAWBERRY 5
#25 Earl's Faux 5
#25 NEVES AZOREAN RED 5
#25 Green Zebra Cherry 5
#25 Work Release Paste 5
#25 Green Doctors Frosted 5

[nicky]

I love the most popular list kilfoyscarnival! Great idea!

I am planting a few less than last year. Probably, maybe, hopefully

Absinthe
Angel Heart
Angora Super Sweet
Anna Maria's Heart
Anna Russian
Ben Gantz
Big Cheef
Black Crimson
Black From Tula
Black Seaman
Blondkpfchen
Blush
Bolivian Wild
Brad's Black Heart
Brandywine Cowlick
Brandywine Noire
Brandywine OTV
Brandywine from Croatia
Brandywine Red
Brandywine Sudduth
Brown Berry
Captain Lucky
Carol Chyko's Big Paste
Chocolate Cherry
Costoluto Genovese
Cuostralee
Dancing With Smurfs
Dice's Mystery Black
Donskoi
Earl's Faux
Earl's Green Cherry
Elformige Dauer
Ernie's Plump
Esmeralda
Feuerwerk
First Mate
Fish Lake Oxheart
Garden Lime
Gildo Pietroboni
Grandma Oliver's Green
Green Copia
Green Giant
Green Pear
Green Velvet
Gregori's Altai
Grub's Mystery Green
Guernsey Island Pink Blush
Hawiian Pineapple
Hays
Heshpole
Humph
Indian Stripe Potato Leaf
Isis Brandy
JD's Special C-Tex
Kardinal
KBX
Kosovo
Lancia
Large Barred Boar
Lime Green Salad
Limmony
Lithuanian
Lithuanian X F2
Little Lucky
Little Lucky Heart
Lucky Cross
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka
Marek's Pointy Heart
Mazarini
Mexico Midget
Millefleur
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Monomakh's Hat
Moravsky Div
Nowicki
Orange Russian 117
Pork Chop
Principe Borghese
Prue
Purple Haze F5
Rajce Oranz (czech family seed)
Rajce Paprika (czech family seed)
Rebel Yell F6
Rosabec
Sandburg
Sandul Moldovan
Seek No Furthur Love Apple
Spudatula
Spudakee
Spudayellow Strawberry
Stump of the World
Stupicke Sklenikove
Sungold F1
Sungold Select II
Sunsugar F4
Sweet Pea Currant
Ted's Pink Currant
Terhune
Ukranian Heart
Una Hartsock
Verne's Paste
Wes
White Currant
Wild Hairy
Wow X F2
Yellow Oxheart
+3 from the Dwarf Project

[jerryinfla]

All are nematode resistant hybrids and all are new trials for me:

Bella Rosa
Sweet Chelsea
Tough Boy
Abe Lincoln Improved
Grandmas Pick
Amelia
Sweet Quartz
Royesta
Champion II
Celebrity
Empire
Goliath

I like the methodology of analysis. Good idea. Nine of the top ten are on my grow list for this year. I dropped Sungold F1 or it would have been ten for ten.

Thanks

Ted

[Tracydr]

Somebody please tell me why Dester is so popular and I know nothing about it!

[kilroyscarnival]

The first time I did the rank, I ended up having "kath" in the top ten because I initially sorted every line of text and then weeded out the longest ones which were conversational, and missed a few. I'm still tweaking, have added the latest posts, and will redo soon. By the way, I finally learned that Kellogg's Breakfast and KBX are not the same thing, that the X is a potato leaf version of KB? Didn't notice that before, but I saw it in the glossary thread. Does that mean I'm growing a Wins All "X"?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tracydr

Somebody please tell me why Dester is so popular and I know nothing about it!

Tracy, you might want to looks at the thread here at Tville called Dr. Dester, which is what Baker Creek was calling it, but after this thread the name was changed to just Dester at BC.SSE members know that two years ago Dester won 1st place at the SSE tomato tasting in Decorah, IA and this past season won 2nd place.

Some SSE members posted here about that and others posted a link to the tomato tasting results at SSE.

This past season I was visited by two local men who drove up here so Dennis could interview me for a newspaper article and he brought two Dester fruits with him, each probably betwen 2-3 lbs, I didn't weigh them.

I took one big bite out of each one, loved the taste, Dennis said for a large fruited one it produced well, and I fermented the rest of the seeds in each of the fruits. Dennis posted here about his visit with me and Dester was mentkioned in that thread as well and the thread was transferred to the General Discussion by someone so that more folks might see it.

Actually those Dester seeds were the only seeds that i fermented myself last season.I'd go search for that Dr, Dester thread but then I'd lose this post, so just go to the search feature, enter Dr. Dester and click on thread, not post.

You'll see it on lots of growout lists for this year, and folks asking for it in the wanted subforum of the seed exchange and I just offered it in my seed offer, now closed.

The history is also given in that Dr. Dester thread, and I think there may be another thread about it as well.

It was Mike of Ohio Heirlom Seeds who posts here who first gave the seeds to SSE. nd they offered seeds for it as well, and Mike at his site was also offering seeds for it

So I don't know how you must have missed it with it being mentioned so often, but a very worthy variety, IMO.

Carolyn

Originally Posted by Tracydr

Somebody please tell me why Dester is so popular and I know nothing about it!

I think it is also a result of it placing #1 in the SSE taste competion in 2011 and #2 in the 2012 competition behind Italian Heirloom. Placing that high two years in a row indicates consistency in the variety. That is the reason I'm growing it this year without knowing almost any of the history of the variety Carolyn related.

Ted

[checkerkitty]

Originally Posted by tedln

I think it is also a result of it placing #1 in the SSE taste competion in 2011 and #2 in the 2012 competition behind Italian Heirloom. Placing that high two years in a row indicates consistency in the variety. That is the reason I'm growing it this year without knowing almost any of the history of the variety Carolyn related.

Ted

Ted, will you post your results with Dester later on this summer? I'm curious to see how it handles our weather. Plus, I'd like to see if you think it's as good as everyone says. Yum!

Christy

Originally Posted by checkerkitty

Ted, will you post your results with Dester later on this summer? I'm curious to see how it handles our weather. Plus, I'd like to see if you think it's as good as everyone says. Yum!

Christy

I sure will! I think I posted a thread about my best varieties this past season. I'm really curious about the Dester variety and will be growing one in a large container and one in the soil for comparison. If a variety doesn't quite meet expectations by reputation, I usually grow it again to make sure it wasn't due to climatic or soil conditions. If it doesn't meet expectations the second year, it is eliminated. Unfortunately, I also eliminate a lot of really good varieties each year to make room for varieties I am curious about.

I'm also really curious about the Italian Heirloom variety which beat Dester for the #1 spot in the SSE taste competition this past year. I look forward to comparing the two varieties. If both are really good, I might even feel compelled to attend the South East Texas tasting event this year so everyone can taste them. That will depend on if we have the event this year.

Ted

[checkerkitty]

Originally Posted by tedln

I sure will! I think I posted a thread about my best varieties this past season. I'm really curious about the Dester variety and will be growing one in a large container and one in the soil for comparison. If a variety doesn't quite meet expectations by reputation, I usually grow it again to make sure it wasn't due to climatic or soil conditions. If it doesn't meet expectations the second year, it is eliminated. Unfortunately, I also eliminate a lot of really good varieties each year to make room for varieties I am curious about.

I'm also really curious about the Italian Heirloom variety which beat Dester for the #1 spot in the SSE taste competition this past year. I look forward to comparing the two varieties. If both are really good, I might even feel compelled to attend the South East Texas tasting event this year so everyone can taste them. That will depend on if we have the event this year.

Ted

I'm hoping SETTFEST does happen this year. I've never been and was very sad last year when the event was cancelled. I hope you do feel compelled to drive this way with those delicious tomatoes. I will feel compelled to taste them.

Christy

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by kilroyscarnival

The first time I did the rank, I ended up having "kath" in the top ten because I initially sorted every line of text and then weeded out the longest ones which were conversational, and missed a few. I'm still tweaking, have added the latest posts, and will redo soon. By the way, I finally learned that Kellogg's Breakfast and KBX are not the same thing, that the X is a potato leaf version of KB? Didn't notice that before, but I saw it in the glossary thread. Does that mean I'm growing a Wins All "X"?

How about a "Spuds All"?
Marsha

[Riceloft]

Lets see....

Winsall x2
Costoluto Genovese x2
Big Beef x2
Beefsteak x2
Cherokee Purple x2
Super Sweet 100 x2
Red Beacon
Bloody Butcher

Dwarfs:
Iditarod Red
Yukon Quest x2
Tasmanian Chocolate
Rosella Purple x2
Arctic Rose
Sweet Sue
Sarandipity cherry F7 x2
Dwarf Golden Heart F8 x2

Can't wait. I went from a single bed about 5x12 (and a few containers/earthtainers) to 5 raised beds 4x8 and those same containers. The old bed will be used this year to experiment with some muskmelons.

[ed50]

My temporary list (not complete because I'm still waiting for some interesting varieties):
-African Queen
-Ananas Bleu
-Anmore Treasures
-Aunt Ruby's Yellow Cherry
-Benissoinante
-Boloto
-Brandysweet Plum
-Carbon Copy
-Caspian Pink
-Chile Verde
-Chocolate Stripes
-Copper River
-Depp's Pink Firefly
-Donskoi
-Dora
-Dutka's Pink
-Dwarf Mr.Snow
-Dwarf Wild Fred
-Eh-Lim
-Fish Lake Oxheart
-German Queen
-Giannini
-Guido
-Hawaiian Pineapple
-Hays
-Heshpole
-Iditarod Red
-Indische Fleisch
-Italian Heirloom
-Kermit
-Kootenai
-Kosovo
-Krupnaya Slivka
-Larisa
-Lithuanian
-Liz Birt
-Marlowe Charleston
-Marmande Garnier Rouge
-Mawlenowe
-Mayo's Delight
-Mikhalich
-Nebraska Wedding
-Neves Azorean Red
-Nicoviotis Orange
-Noire Charbonneuse
-Orange Bourgoin
-Orange Russian
-Orange Strawberry
-Pamplemousse du Grand-Père
-Pamyati Korneeva
-Pink Boar
-Pruden's Purple
-Purple Dog Creek
-Rajce Tisk Hroznove (name is maybe not right?)
-Regina's Yellow
-Rideau Sweet
-Riesentraube
-Rumi Banjan
-Sacharnaja Sliwa Krasnaja
-Scarlet Heirloom
-(Siberian) Pink Honey
-Slankard's
-Strawberry
-Striped German
-Summertime Gold
-Tennessee Surprise
-Tiny Tim
-Tomate Bleue (OSU 05 x Sungold Select 2) F3 (breeding project from a Belgian breeder
-Tomate Bleue (Purple Haze F4 x OSU 76) F1 (the same breeding project)
-Tomatito de Jalapa
-Top Sirloin
-Tsar Kolokol
-Turks Muts
-Ukrainka
-Verna Orange
-Virginia Sweets
-Volovo Srce
-Wes
-Whippersnapper
-Work Release Paste
-Yukon Quest

More to come later
Greetings,
Eddy

[OddBall]

Here is my Grow list, I have them already planted, most of them are couple months old:

- Black Cherry
- Coco (Red Cherry)
- Great White
- Goldcrest (Plum-Yellow Cherry)
- Japanese Black Trifele
- Marmande V.F. (Super Marmande)
- Ratan
- S-22
- Seek-No-Further Love Apple

Best Regards,
OddBall