Any body try these? First year we planted from seed and almost every one came up! Planted them in patio pots and holy cow the plants are 4 feet tall. Had to stake heavily and still the plants are leaning. You want tomatoes? These are huge and just keep on bearing with no end in sight. The one issue is they tend to cat face but the maters are huge and you just cut around it. Nice and meaty with minimal seeds and flavor is excellant. Will be planting these next year again for sure!!!!

Gonna find out, picked up a few plants late, growing well and has green tomatoes on them...Was intrigued by them so figured to try some.

Very good tomatoes. Big and meaty.

Pete

I've grown them, really tasty and a good slicing tomato. I like Cherokee Purple also, they are similar and maybe a little bigger.
Growing a couple Brandywine Pink this year, those things are huge but tend to split (at least for me), pretty tasty also.

Zim

It's been years but they didn't do so well for me here in the south. Actually every black tomato I've tried usually has a ton of cracking around the top.

I have tried a lot of tomato varieties in my life but most of the ones doing good here in my gardens are Big Beefs and BeefMasters for all around yield, flavor, color, disease resistance, and (lesser) cosmetic appearance. They don't sell at the farmers Markets because of the face but year in and out they will produce a good crop.The only "Black" tomato I can grow here was the smaller 'Black Prince' which did fine but was smaller than most others. We need one that matures in less than 80 degree days of growing due to the late and early frosts. I have settled on the above two for consistent yields in my yearly 130 plants. My experience. ............the mike

Good post Mike

Just a guess , but thinking they dropped the mike !

Black Krym is a popular reliable variety here, I didn't plant them this yer though, will plant them next yeae maybe.
I planted several more or less purple varieties this season.

Chinook produced the biggest fruit, but yellow curl hit it bad.
Also planted Sudduth's Brandywine and Gary O'Sena, they are similar potato leaf varieties but the latter has performed better, more and bigger fruit.
I liked Cherokee La Palma. It's high-yield, tastes good, and the plants are very pretty, the leaves are almost lacy and even unripe fruit have contrasting streaks.

My favorite new variety this season is Catwell, not really well-known, but it started producing very early, way before all blights and blemishes started to appear, big fruit, pretty pastel appricot color, pleasant taste.

Thorburn's Terra Cotta is the tastiest this season, and the plants are still producing. Interesting color! A couple new to me Italian heirlooms are still green.


I'm planning to test a bunch of South Siberian varieties (from Minusinsk, specifically) next year, most of them are large indeterminate beefsteaks and oxhearts.

This summer has been abnormally hot and dry here, after sevral freezing cold days in late May that damaged the transplants even in the greenhouse, and my garden is on a rather steep sunny slope, so the tomatoes aren't as pretty as they could have been (some cracks and catfacing), and yellow leaf curl has been an issue, nevertheless...



Chinook, a bit unripe (top left), Gary O'Sena (bottom left), Rebel Starfighter Prime (not a big producer, but super pretty, and nice spicy taste), Cherokee La Palma (middle and bottom center), Catwell (the big yellow one), Thorburn's Terra Cotta and Brad's Black Heart

Well, your tomatoes won't win a beauty contest.... but that you even get tomatoes to finish in Siberia is impressive to me.

These purple varieties are butt ugly this year, just like me Cherries look better than ever this year though. The climate here is becoming too hot.

They all looked GREAT until mid-July while the weather was consistently warm with zero rain since May, and then we got several inches of rain in one day, so they all went popcorn, even those that normally don't crack)) I just grabbed the few I had here in the kitchen to take this picture, they're not the prettiest. Last year we had more rains and tomatoes looked MUCH better, but the blights got really bad in August.
Our climate is actually normally quite good for tomatoes, although the heatwaves in recent years have been annoying. Lots of sun in the summer.

Yes I have for many years. One of my favorites.

Used to be able to by plants locally but that ended several years ago, now I just start from seeds.

One of my favorites.