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Old September 17, 2018   #1
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Default What is your best tasting "red" tomato?

For the past few years been growing Neves Azorean Red and Aker's West Virginia. They produce well in our Florida fall and winter/spring climate. What is your favorite "red" tomato? Germain Red is also very good, but not very productive for me.

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Old September 17, 2018   #2
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Aker's WV was stellar this year- great flavor, size, and the plant is nice and stocky.
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Old September 17, 2018   #3
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Both Akers's and NAR are excellent red tomatoes. If I had to pick one, it would be Aker's!
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Old September 17, 2018   #4
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Not really a fan of 'red' ones, unless they are the pink type. If it has to be 'red red' then some cherry varieties. Gardener's Delight, Sweet Million F1, Koralik... all are tasty and prolific and seem to withstand diseases.
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Estler's Mortgage Lifter and OTV Brandywine are my 2 best this year.
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Old September 17, 2018   #7
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Klara for a large tomato.
Iva's Red Berry for a cherry.
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George Detsikas Red and Sakharnyi Gigant were excellent this year for large tomatoes.
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This years best red is EM-Champion. It's listed as determinate, but produced outdoors early ( 65 dtm) and through the season for me in an exceptionally hot summer. It's a heart, with great sweet taste. In my greenhouse Couilles de Taureau (80 dtm) has been outstanding, and nothing has tolerated the heat better.



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Cuostralee. See .sig.....
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Old September 18, 2018   #11
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Brutus.
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Old September 18, 2018   #12
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+ 2 for Brutus of known varieties.
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Old September 18, 2018   #13
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Brutus.
Is that Brutus Magnum? I may have remembered it wrong but thought I grew one named that a few years back and it was pretty good.

I am a Chapman fan, it has a unique taste that is certainly not redundent.
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Old September 18, 2018   #14
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Chapman have done well for me 2 years in a row, taste is very good. Grew Brutus first time this year, a good tasting tomato also. The seeds I had were just called Brutus
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In your first post you said Germain Red variety,but that would be Germaid Red.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Germaid_Red

Just so happy to have Tania's data base back again.

Since no info was asked about size,shape,weight, etc., I'll be back with my list in a day or two.

And I'll try to select varieties,each of which I've grown for many summers since there are always those summers when, at least for me, my tomatoes have not done well at all and tasted lousy.

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