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Old January 27, 2016   #16
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Last year, I grew Juanne Flamme and Earl of Edgecombe. Both were productive, but I like the flavor of the JF much better than the Earl.
What specifically about the JF flavor did you prefer over the EoE? Balance/skewing toward sweet/tart or just over intensity, etc?
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Old January 27, 2016   #17
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For me Sunchocola blew all black/chocolate cherries away. Nothing came close
I liked Sunchocola. I grew it last year. Yield is excellent; flavor is very good. Fruit are big for a cherry and fill up a box easily. Unfortunately for me, my stink bugs loved it more than any other variety.

The dark cherry I have now is Brown Berry. I honestly can't tell it apart from Black Cherry. I think I like Purple Bumble Bee better anyway.
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Old January 27, 2016   #18
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The dark cherry I have now is Brown Berry. I honestly can't tell it apart from Black Cherry. I think I like Purple Bumble Bee better anyway.
Not this year, but next I'll be trying Black and Chocolate side-by-side. I've grown PBB in the past and liked but not loved it. So I'm still on the market for a dark cherry. I grew Carbon Copy last year and it is back again this year, a very tasty tomato!

I'm also trying more new-to-me cherries this year, including Sunrise BB, Blush, Green Doctors Frosted, Indigo Cherry Drops, Mexico Midget, Zluta Kytice, Sunsugar.
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Old January 27, 2016   #19
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To Black Cherry and Chocolate Cherry, you may want to add Austin's Black Cherry and Sandy's Chocolate Cherry.
Perhaps a tag team match (tables and chairs...plates too) for the championship belt.
And the list grows. Which are the defending champs?
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Old January 27, 2016   #20
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I have a place for 1 of these yellow dwarfs.
Summer Sweet Gold
Golden Gypsy
Sweet Sue
Which would you choose.
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Old January 27, 2016   #21
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I had to play with the new toy http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/ma...eSearch=Search

I searched Sungold and Porter - it gives Sungold 4-1/3 stars and Improved Porter got 5 stars.
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Old January 27, 2016   #22
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Sunrise BB was amazing in my garden. So many tomatoes from them and they tasted like fruit candy. I think I will grow them every year for sometime.

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And BigVanVader, I hope you'll compare varieties grown side by side during the coming season. I'm sure folks here will appreciate it.
I will try my best. I had good intentions of keeping much better notes/pics last year but I neglected my 2015 garden journal thread because I just didn't have time for everything. I had so many plants I got overwhelmed at one point but I tend to aim high and fall short of perfection
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I will be growing also several black / brown varieties this year accidentally, not for the purpose of side by side comparison. But inevitably they will be judged against each other. They are:

== Cherokee Purple, Indian Strip (RL), Black From Tual, Daniel Burson, Black Sea Man, Brown Heart( I named), dwarf Purple Heart

I have grown CP and BFT in the past and have like BFT more productive and early too.
After hearing so much about IS over the years, finally I should be able to find out for myself.

Lets come back to this thread during the harvest season and review the "versus'" .
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The post threw me off for a minute but I think I know what you are getting at now.
If I am correct we are comparing varieties that are alike.
Yes I am doing the same thing here with a few but not many.
Aunt Ruby's German Green versus Emerald Evergreen.
Paul Robinson versus Indian Stripe.
These are my main two.
About everything else is different enough that I can just about plant them all without labels.
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Yes, Worth, that's the idea: same color, growth habit, and approximate size.

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Old January 28, 2016   #25
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I have a place for 1 of these yellow dwarfs.
Summer Sweet Gold
Golden Gypsy
Sweet Sue
Which would you choose.
Of these, I've only grown Sweet Sue, which was delicious. Craig rated it 8.5 last year, while he rated Summer Sweet Gold a 9 ("superb, juicy, intense").
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Old January 28, 2016   #26
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I had to play with the new toy http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/ma...eSearch=Search

I searched Sungold and Porter - it gives Sungold 4-1/3 stars and Improved Porter got 5 stars.
I'd be careful of reading too much into some of the Cornell results, with few reviewers. Improved Porter only has 2. In contrast, Big Beef has 25 and Goliath 12. (Sungold has 99.)

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Indian Stripe vs Margaret Curtain?

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Indian Stripe vs Margaret Curtain?

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MARGARET CURTAIN !!!
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Old January 28, 2016   #29
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MARGARET CURTAIN !!!
I love Indian Stripe, but, I grew MC for the first time last season and it was fantastic! Just a bit of a notch above in flavor, fruit size and productivity in my garden. The fruit was wonderful on a sandwich or in my black tomato bacon jam!! Yummy!

So another vote for MC.. It will be back for 2016
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And the list grows. Which are the defending champs?

None of the above.

The champ in my 2015 garden was a mutant SunGold plant. I don't know what happened, but I'm planting a SunGold in the same spot, this year.
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