I think I have a new favorite tomato

[DirtyCoconuts]

What is a paste tomato?

[kvet]

Think Roma or San Marzano tomatoes. They are very thick fleshed, drier, few seeds. Flavor improves as you cook them down.

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by kvet

Here's what I'm considering growing next season. Any thoughts?

Cherry:
Maglia Rosa
Black Cherry

Large:
Cherokee Purple
Japanese Triffle

Paste:
San Marzano
Opalka

I am wondering if I should look for more variety, there are three black tomatoes here. 2020 I grew only two types, black krim and tasmanian chocolate, totaling 12 tomatoes, all in containers (ground is not fertile and lacks sunlight). I like the descriptions of the maglia rosa being able to grow in 3 gallon containers, makes it easier to manage my space which is already challenging.

Next year.

Cherry:
Chocolate Cherry
SunSugar

Large:
Purple Cherokee (Duh)
Pineapple
One or two Mortgage Lifters (for a race with cousin)

Paste:
San Marzano
Amish Paste

Pineapple is my new favorite non-Purple Cherokee tomato. It's a yellowish orange, stripey, and tastes like a slice of heaven. My daughter grew them this year. Prolific, huge meaty tomatoes, and exquisite sweet/citrusy flavor. A new "must have." That doesn't happen often. And I've never before met a yellow/orange tomato even worth my time to grow. I'm already hooked.

Almost any cherry tomato can be grown in a five gallon bucket sized pot.

Nah, do whatever colors you prefer. I grow for what I like best and what works best in my climate. The tomatoes, unlike many humans, don't really care what color the other tomatoes around them are, and don't perform any differently based on the mix of color around them.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by kvet

Think Roma or San Marzano tomatoes. They are very thick fleshed, drier, few seeds. Flavor improves as you cook them down.

thanks, i had never heard that term...makes me want homemade red sauce

Pineapple is my new favorite non-Purple Cherokee tomato. It's a yellowish orange, stripey, and tastes like a slice of heaven. My daughter grew them this year. Prolific, huge meaty tomatoes, and exquisite sweet/citrusy flavor. A new "must have." That doesn't happen often. And I've never before met a yellow/orange tomato even worth my time to grow. I'm already hooked.

yo, that sounds DELICIOUS!!!

[kvet]

WW: thanks for the input! I had pineapple on my list a few months ago, but totally forgot about it! I will look into sungold and amish paste. Good point on growing what works best for the area - that's something I'm still learning

[Chris17]

I tried Brandywine but my six foot plant produced a total of 3 large fruits. They were delicious, though. Next year I intend to plant green zebra and cherokee purple as well as a few standard varieties. I always plant extra because I have local wildlife that likes to sample the tomatoes.

[WaterWitchin]

I agree on the Brandywine. Delicious, but far from prolific. For me, not worth the real estate in my raised beds to be worthwhile. My daughter grows green zebra. I always have a hard time deciding when it's ripe, so I avoid growing them.

[kvet]

My mom has grown the brandywine "sudduth" strain for a couple years now. It's rather tasty. I rooted a cutting from it somewhat late, and stuck that in the ground as an experiment. It has a whopping 3 tomatoes on it that I'm eagerly awaiting to change color, but I figured the low production was due to combination of it being in full shade now (the sun's path now is low enough to be blocked by my neighbor, it was originally full sun spot) and it looks to have some sort of disease

[JScott]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

I agree on the Brandywine. Delicious, but far from prolific. For me, not worth the real estate in my raised beds to be worthwhile. My daughter grows green zebra. I always have a hard time deciding when it's ripe, so I avoid growing them.

Now that we are coming to the end of the tomato season in Texas, I do agree with you about Brandywine not being prolific. I don't know exactly how many tomatoes I got from my two Brandywine plants, and I absolutely relished them, but it was not nearly as many as I got from any of my other plants. I like them enough that I'm willing to dedicate enough space to plant two, but because they are not prolific, I wouldn't plant more than that.

[kvet]

I was prepping to purchase my tomato seeds for this year, very similar to what WW suggested here in post #43:
I think I have a new favorite tomato

I don't really want to go through all the stuff I did last summer, however, I still would like to grow a couple. I don't think I want to deal with indeterminate tomatoes, which means everything on WW's suggestion is out. There's a "dwarf tomato project" out there that hobbiests and pros have been contributing to for a while. Any of you have experience with the tomatoes there? Any suggestions?
Dwarf Tomato Project – A co-operative venture