Anyone growing KARMA tomatoes?

[Josetom]

... or another variety from Karen Olivier?

I will be planting Karma Purple MF this year for the first time, I'm really interested in Karma Miracle too but I can't find the seed online..

I wish to know your experience with any Karma and if it's better or not than other cherries.. thanks!!

[Setec Astronomy]

... or another variety from Karen Olivier?

I am growing Midnight Sun again this year. Last year was the first time, and the first potato-leaf plant I've grown. It was the sickliest looking plant I've ever grown, but this year I am also growing a (potato-leaf) Glacier, which looks kind of sickly, too...so I guess that's a characteristic of potato-leaf plants. I had a lot of weather and deer problems last year, but the Midnight Sun fruit I got was very good, and much larger than I expected.

[Dawn]

The wispiness is actually a characteristic of heart shaped tomatoes. Hearts and a a few others do that.

I grew KARMA peach and purple MF one year. The peach wasn't very productive, but tasted great. The purple multiflora was very productive and also tasted excellent. Peach was a bigger tomato, probably 2oz or so, purple multiflora were cherry sized.

[bower]

I grew Karma Pink some years ago and I thought the taste was excellent, very nuanced and complex.

[Labradors]

I grew KARMA Pink a few years ago and it tasted better than many of my favourites. I'm growing it again this year .

Linda

[Josetom]

@Setec Astronomy such a beautiful tomato, that it's one I'm strongly considering too..

@Dawn isn't a Midnight Sun your profile picture?

Thank you for your response @Bower .. any other cherry that you like more?

Oh Hi Linda @Labradors are you the same Labradors from Tomatoville? I love your posts! I'm trying Maglia Rose this year, I know it's one of your favorites

[Dawn]

@Dawn isn't a Midnight Sun your profile picture?

No, that's Orange Russian 117. I have grown Midnight Sun. It's a pretty excellent tomato. OR 117 was grown years ago and the tomatoes were huge! They didn't taste as good as Karen's tomatoes, though.

[Paulf]

Karma is in the garden right now. So far there are two pea sized tomatoes. A few more weeks and they will be ready to try; this is the first year they are part of the line-up.

[Frosti]

Growing Karma Miracle, Karma Pink, and Taiga this year.
Taiga started out as a very sickly looking plant, but exploded in the last weeks into a very stocky plant with a massive stem. Karma Miracle looks healthy but comparatively small for its age. Karma Pink looks good so far. Can't say anything about the taste yet.

[MissTee]

Grew KARMA Pink, Peach, Purple MF and Miracle. A bit bigger than cherry and more salad-sized. I found the taste to be more on the tangy than the sweet side. Maybe that’s just a result of my soil. They split easily with rain, so pick beforehand at first blush (if rain is in the forecast). Of them all, the Peach was the most productive and I would likely grow it again. Nice bi-coloured mini beefsteaks.

Midnight Sun had amazing balanced taste and meaty texture. Only got a few to taste as it was later in my garden at around 80 days and Late Blight took out the rest. Would be a repeat if I had a longer growing season.

[Labradors]

Josetom, I'm Labradors on Tomatoville too. Thanks for your kind remarks . I do hope you will enjoy Maglia Rosa as much as I do! I grow it every year .

Linda

[habitat-gardener]

I'm growing KARMA Apricot this year. I happened to see seedlings for sale and figured I could fit in one more!
I grew several karmas in past years, and remembered this one as being the one I liked best.

[JenniferBella]

Karen generously shared seeds and I am trying her Wizard of Oz themed Short and Sweet varieties, Emerald City, Yellow Brick Road, and Ruby Slippers, as well as Karma Purple multifloral. The plants are very strong and healthy, so as long as the squirrels leave me one or two, I am super excited to try them this summer.

[Tormato]

... or another variety from Karen Olivier?

I am growing Midnight Sun again this year. Last year was the first time, and the first potato-leaf plant I've grown. It was the sickliest looking plant I've ever grown, but this year I am also growing a (potato-leaf) Glacier, which looks kind of sickly, too...so I guess that's a characteristic of potato-leaf plants. I had a lot of weather and deer problems last year, but the Midnight Sun fruit I got was very good, and much larger than I expected.

In my garden (Massachusetts), PL plants are the most robust, usually somewhat better than most regular leaf plants.

It's them sparse, wispy, RL hearts that get to me. A few of them, in the large seedling stage, just before transplanting, simply flop over and refuse to grow upright.

[Whwoz]

Midnight Sun is a grow every year here in the garden of Woz. Need to regrow the other Northern Hearts and get hold of Tundra seed. Polaris is also very good, but have been focused on a couple of other dark ones the last couple of seasons. True Colours and Taiga I really need to re-assess. The four Karma's that I have grown were grown in an exceptionally hot summer, upto 44C/110F and did not appreciate the heat as much as the hearts

Looking forward to trying some of her others when they become available.

[habitat-gardener]

Polaris is one of my favorites! It has done well the past 2 or 3 summers, even when other tomatoes produced little or nothing because of nematodes, heat waves, etc. Polaris and Benevento F1 are becoming my grow-every-year tomatoes.

[rossomendblot]

I am growing Polaris (thanks to MissS) and True Colours. I couldn't get seed for Taiga or Tundra. True Colours started off really weak but is catching up with the others and looking really healthy now.

[Moth1992]

Im growing Purple this year. The MMMM tag didnt say it was the MF one. The fruit is setting in long strings of 6-8 fruit if that makes any sense.

She was the least bothered by the cold spring and one if the first to set fruit. If all of the other karmas are this cold tolerant I will be trying them all.

[Moth1992]

My karma purple so far are tasting awful. I dont know whats going on. They are bitter! Hope its just because they are the first ones.

[rossomendblot]

My karma purple so far are tasting awful. I dont know whats going on. They are bitter! Hope its just because they are the first ones.

The first tomatoes of the season always pretty bad to me, then they improve dramatically. I've only had one plant that never improved and tasted awful all season and I think that was an off type Ambrosia Red.