My Pink Cadillac

[catjac1975]

I also tried burpee's Supersauce- a new variety. They are gigantic paste tomatoes. The are very meaty, not too many seeds and so sweet. I have cooked them in a mixed veggie dish but have not made sauce yet. But, so good fresh. I will photograph them tomorrow.

 

[Jared77]

Hmmmmm :/

Looking forward to pics

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is one of my Supersauce on a dinner plate. Mine weigh about a pound and are really dense. There are less seeds and gel than this photo looks like.

Cat, I cooked some down to sauce. It didnt take that long to thicken. It will be interesting to see your photo. Do yours have that green strip leading to the seed pockets?

They are indeterminate but the vines are not all that tall compared to my other indeterminates. Still, production is pretty good.

 

[897tgigvib]

Thistle, it's possible to grow any tomato up where you are. In Montana I grew for a challenge to myself, Pineapple tomato, one of the latest to mature. I also grew Hugh's, another large late one. Start them in January in the house. I lived in an upstairs apartment. One large window faced south of sunrise. My bedroom window faced just east of the noon sun. Move the plants around to the sun, and have a flourescent tube also.

The plants will grow too tall and will need some pruning. They will be indoors for almost 6 months. By June they'll be in 2 gallon pots just about rootbound. Whiteflies became a real nuisance my last year up there. Conditions are just right for whiteflies, so I used my nicotine homemade spray n wash.

 

[catjac1975]

I grew tomatoes in my heated greenhouse for a few winters. Even with using seed for greenhouse tomatoes they were not fantastic. It was still a thrill to have red tomatoes in the winter-great for the soul hungering for spring. However the white fly was impossible to control and I have given up this ritual. It began to effect my seed starting for my summer garden. I do use my tunnel greenhouse to extend the tomato season with some success.

Thistle, it's possible to grow any tomato up where you are. In Montana I grew for a challenge to myself, Pineapple tomato, one of the latest to mature. I also grew Hugh's, another large late one. Start them in January in the house. I lived in an upstairs apartment. One large window faced south of sunrise. My bedroom window faced just east of the noon sun. Move the plants around to the sun, and have a flourescent tube also.

The plants will grow too tall and will need some pruning. They will be indoors for almost 6 months. By June they'll be in 2 gallon pots just about rootbound. Whiteflies became a real nuisance my last year up there. Conditions are just right for whiteflies, so I used my nicotine homemade spray n wash.

 

[digitS']

A surprise in the tomato patch this year might be Gary O Sena. There is also a ripe fruit on each Goliath Original Hybrid plant every harvest day. Others are doing well - I've got many, many medium-sized tomatoes and cherries by the bowl full! No, I haven't been able to harvest a single ripe Brandywine OTV nor a Pantano Romanesco . . . I've had one nice BIG Gary O Sena tomato, however. It was great!

This is the 2nd year to have a Gary O plant in my garden and the one last year did did fine. I was impressed that it avoided most of the splitting problems I had in 2012 and still ripened quite a few fruits.

I was "trying" to do better with the 2013 plant. I am sure that I was cheating a little by leaving small green fruit on the Gary O plant when I set it out. My tomato starts are nearly 3 months old by the time they go in the garden. I try to remove any developing fruit at that time, to give the plants more time to grow before putting energy into that early fruit. Giving Gary O a little head-start wasn't wise.

The big rambling plant grew but the leaf cover didn't protect the fruit well from a scorching July sun. They not only were scalded but one split badly - all while still green!

Tossed those and the 2nd crop is coming on nicely. I also gave a plant to my neighbor. His often do a little better than mine!! He is a very neglectful gardener but his garden is in a much more protected place than where I grow my tomatoes - nearly 20 miles away. (I never intend to grow my tomatoes next to his . . . it isn't competition that I look for out there in the garden. )

Anyway, his Gary O Sena is loaded with fruit! He has one that is nicely ripe! I know that having big ripe tomatoes isn't anything special for some of us near the end of August but this Brandywine x Cherokee Purple cross gives me a taste of what might be possible in a better tomato growing environment! Keith Mueller said somewhere that he mainly intended this cross in the interest of flavor but it seems that this "near-heirloom" may be a better choice where those 85 days-to-maturity "real-heirlooms" would fail to ripen before frost.

Steve

 

[Rob3nThck7e]

thanks for posting the image.