Black Brandywine Tomato

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

I won't upset @Sprig by posting a picture of how I keep track of fresh tomatoes for seedsaving. Here is a LINK.

*facepalm*

I'm pretty careful with my tomatoes, but with cucumbers, zucchini, peppers and the like I just toss them to the outskirts of the garden and grab them later

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Each to their own

I do think the French Canadians take the prize, however . . .

That is genius!

So, it's gotta be human powered, eh? Let's run an air compressor via bike and use that

 

[Jared77]

I'm all about the oddities. When I grew regular Brandywines I had so much core in them it was a total waste. However it was a brutally hot summer so that may have played a role too.

I'll have to give those a try I love black maters

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

I'm all about the oddities. When I grew regular Brandywines I had so much core in them it was a total waste. However it was a brutally hot summer so that may have played a role too.

I'll have to give those a try I love black maters

These are great, and have no hard core.

 

[Jared77]

I'm game. Your regipular Brandywines have core issues?

 

[digitS']

Mentioning mild, little red Kimberley with these others is a bit out of place but it had core problems the first year I tried it.

I blamed genetics and the seed company. Ordered seed elsewhere for the next season and they fit the catalog description.

Perhaps your Brandywine problem was one of quality control.

Steve

 

[PhilaGardener]

I most often find cores in massive fruit from megablossoms (fused blooms) on heirloom varieties. Some folks don't like those large fruit for a variety of reasons and pinch off those flowers. That, in turn, directs the plant's energy to the regular fruit. Maybe that would help reduce the problem for you?

 

[Smart Red]

I most often find cores in massive fruit from megablossoms (fused blooms) on heirloom varieties. Some folks don't like those large fruit for a variety of reasons and pinch off those flowers. That, in turn, directs the plant's energy to the regular fruit. Maybe that would help reduce the problem for you?

Learning more every day. Good to know about those megablossoms. The fruit is never quite as easy to use anyway so off they go in the future.

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

I most often find cores in massive fruit from megablossoms (fused blooms) on heirloom varieties. Some folks don't like those large fruit for a variety of reasons and pinch off those flowers. That, in turn, directs the plant's energy to the regular fruit. Maybe that would help reduce the problem for you?

Weird. I've yet to see a fused bloom, but your mention led me down a interweb searching route. wow!

 

[journey11]

Here's how my Brandywine Blacks turned out. The first two got eaten too fast to get a pic of them, LOL. Definitely a new favorite for me, sweeter than my other favorite tomato, Black Krim. Definitely a Brandywine by flavor. I think the black tomatoes are always the prettiest. I'm drooling just looking at these pics and remembering the taste of this tomato when I enjoyed it yesterday. I have not shared but just a bite of them with the family either.

It does have a little bit of a green core, but not too much fruit is lost, not too bad. The green of the shoulders doesn't run deep or pithy either once they're ripe. I was also very pleased with the good yields the plants made. I didn't get any really huge tomatoes on them, all average sized, but I think they would have been a bit bigger if I had stayed on top of the weeds better.