Harvested first tomato- blah!

 Very disappointed.  Harvested first tomato - ate it straight off the
vine.  Blah taste, no zing.  It's one of the ubiquitous tomato plants
sold in So. Calif. nurseries.  I am notorious about not tagging plants
carefully, so I THINK it's Champion or maybe Better Boy or Celebrity.

In any case, it's doesn't have the sharp, acid taste I like in a
tomato.

Just venting.

HB

 wrote:

Cut back on the water and fertilizer.  Overwatered tomatoes taste blah.

 
m> wrote:

Thanks for suggestion, but really have not  been overwatering, and
have applied zero fertilizer.
Will have to see how tomatoes from the other 3 vines taste before
drawing possibly erroneous conclusions.

HB

 
Higgs Boson;927833 Wrote:

Tomatoes are very easy to grow from seed.  Choose a variety of seed that
grows nice tomatoes at home, and grow those. Save money too.




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echinosum

 wrote:

Trust me, next year fer sure!  I usually DO grow from seed, both
ornamentals and veggies, but this year, due to a host of
circumstances, I was so late planting that I ended up buying plants.
Looks like I wasted a whole season, tomato-wise, damn, damn!  Hope my
corn and melons, that have been planted from seed, also too lae, do
better than the tomatoes.

I even (re)joined Seed Savers Network after many years  in order to
plant good seeds, but unfortunately did not follow up and order
seeds.  I will sure do so for my Fall plantings.

HB