Good tasting white tomatoes?

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Good tasting white tomatoes?

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Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:14 pm

I need some suggestions for a good tasting white tomato that takes under 90 days to mature. Extra kudos is it happens to be a potato leaf plant... A friend wants me to try and make her a good tasting white micro tomato and I have never grown whites before...
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Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:31 pm

I have always liked white cherry. I also grew a medium sized Chinese white tomato a few years, huang se chieh. It is tasty but splits too easily.

Both of those are rl. I haven't grown a white pl. Here is one from a Google search

https://www.worldtomatosociety.com/tomato/lotos/

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Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:17 pm

White Queen is capable of tasting excellent. I think it maybe needs cooler soil for that, though. One year, I grew it and it was super sweet and good. Another year I grew it, and it was like buttermilk. I used black plastic to warm the soil the second time. It was more prolific the second year, with larger fruit, and it had more sun that year, too.

I've tried Great White. It wasn't bad. Kind of mild, though, but it was overwatered.

I wanted to try Super Snow White, but mine was a cross, with red fruit (and smaller than it was supposed to be). I saved seeds, and some of them might produce white fruit, though.
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Sat Aug 08, 2020 1:41 pm

Old Ivory Egg is midearly and RL. It has with very good sweet taste with fruity undertones when not fully ripe.
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Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:26 pm

Dr. Carolyn is a great tasting large white cherry. It would be an excellent parent for a micro.

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Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:00 pm

Several years ago I tried a few of the "whites" which were actually pale yellows, but that said, I stopped trying. They were all quite bland. Three years of bland whites while others were very tasty, they along with the GWRs became extinct in the seed collection.

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Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:58 pm

I can't believe I didn't think of Dr. Carolyn! I will put that one down at the top of my list for the homage tomatoes.

I have been investigating the suggestions made here as well as others and now have a list of whites that sound good... then I discovered that I actually had seeds for a dwarf white tomato in my collection. I haven't grown it yet but it is supposed to be good... Among those I researched I pick a second dwarf that sounded good. My two dwarfs I have are Dwarf Mr. Snow and Dwarf C C McGee.
I have not yet settled on a "big tomato" to use so many sound interesting like Halfmoon China with references to melon flavor or scent in most descriptions...
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Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:02 pm

wykvlvr wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:58 pm I have not yet settled on a "big tomato" to use so many sound interesting like Halfmoon China with references to melon flavor or scent in most descriptions...
Idk for sure, but that sounds a lot lot like huang se chieh. They are medium sized, prolific, but sensitive to cracking.

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Sat Aug 15, 2020 3:12 pm

Mr Snow is tasting pretty good now that there are more sizeable fruits in this crummy tomato year here this year.
Sweet, mild but flavourful.

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