Best tasting determinate

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Maglia Rosa, Cole, and Sol Gold. They are compact determinates.

Is Cole your own variety? I can't find it in Tatiana's list.

[KarenO]

I've grown cole, got it in the Canadian swap a few years ago.
Annapolis seeds carries it but is sold out looks like. It's a lot like subarctic plenty or other small early Canadian reds. Flavour, for me, was not there. But I don't like most tomatoes like it.

KarenO

[Cole_Robbie]

Originally Posted by LDiane

Is Cole your own variety? I can't find it in Tatiana's list.

Cole is an heirloom from Saskatchewan, Canada. It is very compact plant and makes a red mini-beefsteak. Harvest window is fairly brief.

For my high tunnel, I like Aura and Agatha. Both of them are red. Aura is a saladette and usually one of my first varieties to ripen. Agatha is a bigger tomato, and comes on 10-14 days or so later. Both of them are fairly big plants.

Sladkij Ponchik is an excellent yellow variety. I think it is determinate. Flavor is very good. Normally, I grow Taxi as my high tunnel yellow, but mostly for its huge yield. Flavor isn't bad with Taxi, just very mild.

[NewWestGardener]

I second Maglia Rosa.

[barbamWY]

Early Wonder from TGS, and Mountain Fresh.

[creister]

Danko, Sophie's Choice, and Hanky Red are all determinate, if I remember correctly. Clear Pink Early was another one I liked.

[sjamesNorway]

One that several here have praised is Altajskij (Altajskiy) Urozajnij. Here's Tatiana's description: http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Altajskij_Urozajnij I'm going to grow it this season, and will let you know how it does.


Steve

[charley]

The only 2 i can recommend are both green when ripes pit viper and lime green salad. The ladder tastes just like its name like a fresh green salad with lime juice on it

[KarenO]

A number of great suggestions, thank you to all
KarenO

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by charley

The only 2 i can recommend are both green when ripes pit viper and lime green salad. The ladder tastes just like its name like a fresh green salad with lime juice on it

Interesting, my experience was neither that fresh nor green: I was almost underwhelmed. Compared to some other wonderful GWR varieties (Green Zebra, Esmeralda Golosina) LGS was just... tepid.
But I may try again.

This season I hope to grow Lucinda, isn't that determinate as well?

[bower]

Whoops I missed this thread! Always interested in learning about tasty determinates.

Altajskij Urozajnij were amazingly delicious for me the year I grew them outside. They were not very early and not very productive (a miserable year) but super sweet and kept on producing small gems when I brought the plant in for the fall. In the greenhouse all season the following year AU was super productive with a bit larger fruit, but not as tasty. Still on the sweet side though, they weren't bad.
I tried a cross between AU and a very sweet F2 the first year, and grew out two F1 siblings from the cross - one was meh, the other one sweet.
I've also grown Siletz and Cold Set - they were not as early as I expected but larger than the general run of early reds. Both were decent tasting reds, fairly loaded on tiny plants, but both were also wicked splitters - about every fruit split. They also had really bad foliage disease.

Of a dozen or so early small reds, only two were outstanding for taste: Napoli a Fiaschetto which is a small pointy plum, and Alaska. These were not sweet nor tart but rich balanced taste, lots of umami intensity.

Are you looking for something for a breeding project?

[KarenO]

You know me, always scheming.Yes, I am making some theoretical pairings in my mind to see about breeding something interesting and tasty and at least relatively early in a determinate. I know you have been working on some early determinates Bower, Maybe PM me what you have used so I don't duplicate anything you are working on. I have some vintage Canadian determinates to work with along with an unknown very, very early small red that was given to me by a retired plant virologist who used to work for Agriculture Canada and the University of Saskatchewan . He calls it Evans extra early it is early and prolific but the taste is typical early red. and meh... you know what I think of those.
Anyway mainly theoretical at this point for lack of space but I might make a couple of crosses this summer if the parents cooperate and bloom at the same time, that can be a bit of a trick with determinates.

KarenO

Originally Posted by bower

Whoops I missed this thread! Always interested in learning about tasty determinates.

Altajskij Urozajnij were amazingly delicious for me the year I grew them outside. They were not very early and not very productive (a miserable year) but super sweet and kept on producing small gems when I brought the plant in for the fall. In the greenhouse all season the following year AU was super productive with a bit larger fruit, but not as tasty. Still on the sweet side though, they weren't bad.
I tried a cross between AU and a very sweet F2 the first year, and grew out two F1 siblings from the cross - one was meh, the other one sweet.
I've also grown Siletz and Cold Set - they were not as early as I expected but larger than the general run of early reds. Both were decent tasting reds, fairly loaded on tiny plants, but both were also wicked splitters - about every fruit split. They also had really bad foliage disease.

Of a dozen or so early small reds, only two were outstanding for taste: Napoli a Fiaschetto which is a small pointy plum, and Alaska. These were not sweet nor tart but rich balanced taste, lots of umami intensity.

Are you looking for something for a breeding project?

[jillian]

I didn't want to start a new thread so I am putting it here. I grow a couple of determinate tomatoes each year. This year I decided to try Taxi. I am just astounded.I can't believe how loaded down they are. I put them in the largest of the cheap cages sold at garden centers, thought it would be sufficient. Well the cages are collapsing so today I rigged up some extra support. I can't count all the tomatoes . The plants are vigorous and healthy.

I am very impressed. If they taste only half as well as they have produced I will be very happy!

[pmcgrady]

Someone sent me some 0-33 seeds... not sure if they are determinete
but they have more tomatoes on them than Cole or Fireworks and will probably produce my first ripe tomatoes.

[Gardeneer]

I have grown SILETZ ( OSU bred, specifically for PNW). It has pretty good taste .
I am growing it for my fall garden.I shall see how it does down here in the south.
It is also very early, DTM ~~ 65 .