Tomato varieties that others love-- but you find little use for?

[Ginger2778]

For the most part antho tomatoes leave me cold.

Me too. Only one so far that I actually like is Brad's Atomic Grape.

[Ginger2778]

NMRuss, I grew Moonglow in 2019. Production was amazing, and the fruit were perfect round orbs, but I found the taste very tart. I'd love to hear what you thought of the taste of Moonglow and Olga's. I was going to grow Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg this year, but ran out of room.

I should mention that Orange Strawberry, which is also a high cis-lycopene variety, tastes sweet and wonderful!

Linda

Another vote here for Orange Strawberry. I'm crazy about it's amazing taste, size and production are awfully good too. Thank you for the seeds Linda.

[Nico]

sun gold f1

[Labradors]

Nico, I really disliked Sungold F1 at first. A friend raved about them and picked a small basket for me, but they weren't perfectly ripe and I thought they tasted horrid. I discovered that they taste best when they are so perfectly ripe that they fall off the vine and into your hand .

Linda

[PlainJane]

For the most part antho tomatoes leave me cold.

Me too. Only one so far that I actually like is Brad's Atomic Grape.

Lol, I like Atomic Sunset (also Brad Gates) and that’s about it.

[AlittleSalt]

Larger grocery store tomatoes. They're grown, sold, bought, and eaten by the billions - and yet they are nothing but red, hard / mealy, and wet with no taste whatsoever. Yet some people must love them. I just don't have a use for them.

Some of the smaller varieties like Campari and cherry tomatoes sold at the grocery stores do taste pretty good - well, some of them. I also like canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste.

This reply is to state the obvious . I'll post my ??? tomatoes next.

[AlittleSalt]

My personal thoughts: Any tomato plant that produces 5 or less tomatoes is a waste of time, space, and effort. I grew Black Krim plants one year and all 3 tomatoes tasted really good... not good enough to grow it again now that I grow less than 10 tomato plants.

Black Cherry is on my "Don't grow it again" list. Red Ambrosia tastes really good to us, but the other Ambrosias - not good. Juliet F1 and Blush produced a lot of tomatoes during a record setting wet year - you wouldn't want to eat them because the flavor was replaced by that mealy spit-it-out feeling.

As written before in this thread, growing conditions are the major player in what a tomato tastes like. Then we have our favorites. It's good that we have so many choices

[JosephineRose]

Dwarf Tomatoes, especially New bIg Dwarf

Every variety I've tried has been mediocre in flavor and production but gone down hard and fast to disease.

The one exception for me has been Uluru Ochre, which overwintered and grew to more than 5ft tall for me. Looked ugly, produced great fruit.

And yet, I am trying Uralskiy Ranniy this year. I guess I'm an optimist.

[Barmaley]

I am trying to grow some dwarf tomatoes this year first time but seems your comments are discouraging! Do more people here statically have trouble with dwarfs than success?

[Dawn]

I've had trouble with some dwarfs, but New Big Dwarf and Tennessee Suited have been excellent producers and healthy plants. New Big Dwarf had been very tasty in my garden. Tennessee Suited is not as flavorful, but it's really early, always my first big tomato, and it's extremely productive. I'm trying Fred's Tie Dye in it's place this year, looking for better flavor. We'll see.

[mama_lor]

Dwarfs are definitely more disease prone, probably due to their bushy nature. Good if you have high winds though, they barely flinch.

I find cherry tomatoes (and grape) to be mostly useless. I tried a ton of them at some point, even hybrids, and almost none of them were to my taste, mostly due to the sweetness.