A new blight resistant determinate cherry tomato available from most seed
merchants. Anyone grown it yet?
Usually only grow Ferline and Fantasio, both blight resistant, and
occasionally Legend which only has a little blight resistance. I'm
interested in this new cherry type though.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
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from the W.of London. UK

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:45:25 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

A new blight resistant determinate cherry tomato available from most seed
merchants. Anyone grown it yet?
Usually only grow Ferline and Fantasio, both blight resistant, and
occasionally Legend which only has a little blight resistance. I'm
interested in this new cherry type though.

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
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from the W.of London. UK
Found Losetto in the local Garden Centre today. There are at least
three seed merchants selling them but on this ocassion at 6 seeds per
pack and they ain't cheap. (£3.something.)

'Er Indoors flashed her birthday garden tokens and we got two packs
and another pack of Ferline for good measure so I'm relatively
relaxed. Watch this space.

The Blight has arrived. Golden Sunrise has succumbed, as has Black
Russian. Ferline, Roma and San Marzano have so far not visibly been
affected. I'll cull those that are ripe on the morrow, the rest go
for destruction.

I must say that the Ferlines have been most fecund this year with
substantial fruits, almost like beefsteak tomato. I'll sow them again
next year but I'll try and get the timing sorted better.

Regards
JonH
(In West London)

JonH wrote ...

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

A new blight resistant determinate cherry tomato available from most seed
merchants. Anyone grown it yet?
Usually only grow Ferline and Fantasio, both blight resistant, and
occasionally Legend which only has a little blight resistance. I'm
interested in this new cherry type though.

Found Losetto in the local Garden Centre today. There are at least
three seed merchants selling them but on this ocassion at 6 seeds per
pack and they ain't cheap. (£3.something.)

'Er Indoors flashed her birthday garden tokens and we got two packs
and another pack of Ferline for good measure so I'm relatively
relaxed. Watch this space.

The Blight has arrived. Golden Sunrise has succumbed, as has Black
Russian. Ferline, Roma and San Marzano have so far not visibly been
affected. I'll cull those that are ripe on the morrow, the rest go
for destruction.

I must say that the Ferlines have been most fecund this year with
substantial fruits, almost like beefsteak tomato. I'll sow them again
next year but I'll try and get the timing sorted better.


The blight arrived with us a few weeks ago and all our tomatoes are now
cleared from our plot. However, whilst the Black Russians succumbed early on
we did get a superb crop from both Ferline and Fantasio and then there was
the Losetto!
I planted a whole packet of seeds, that's 6, and planted out 6 plants so
100% germination. We were inundated with cherry tomatoes, totally
overwhelmed, two plants would have been more than enough for us and all our
neighbours. They are determinate plants so you just let them grow, but they
only get to about a foot tall but spread out 3ft+ making picking difficult.
Nice taste and very juicy.
Next year I intend to plant two and try them in hanging baskets.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:29:46 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

JonH wrote ...

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

A new blight resistant determinate cherry tomato available from most seed
merchants. Anyone grown it yet?
Usually only grow Ferline and Fantasio, both blight resistant, and
occasionally Legend which only has a little blight resistance. I'm
interested in this new cherry type though.

Found Losetto in the local Garden Centre today. There are at least
three seed merchants selling them but on this ocassion at 6 seeds per
pack and they ain't cheap. (£3.something.)

'Er Indoors flashed her birthday garden tokens and we got two packs
and another pack of Ferline for good measure so I'm relatively
relaxed. Watch this space.

The Blight has arrived. Golden Sunrise has succumbed, as has Black
Russian. Ferline, Roma and San Marzano have so far not visibly been
affected. I'll cull those that are ripe on the morrow, the rest go
for destruction.

I must say that the Ferlines have been most fecund this year with
substantial fruits, almost like beefsteak tomato. I'll sow them again
next year but I'll try and get the timing sorted better.


The blight arrived with us a few weeks ago and all our tomatoes are now
cleared from our plot. However, whilst the Black Russians succumbed early on
we did get a superb crop from both Ferline and Fantasio and then there was
the Losetto!
I planted a whole packet of seeds, that's 6, and planted out 6 plants so
100% germination. We were inundated with cherry tomatoes, totally
overwhelmed, two plants would have been more than enough for us and all our
neighbours. They are determinate plants so you just let them grow, but they
only get to about a foot tall but spread out 3ft+ making picking difficult.
Nice taste and very juicy.
Next year I intend to plant two and try them in hanging baskets.

Thanks for the warning! We also have been flooded out with toms. I
have already made two batches of green tonato chutney and have enough
toms in the freezer for two more. I have a kilo or two of ripe toms
in the freezer also. Over the next day or so I will be examining the
remaining ripe one and freezing the sound ones too.

Regards
JonH

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Losetto!

I planted a whole packet of seeds, that's 6, and planted out 6 plants so
100% germination. We were inundated with cherry tomatoes, totally
overwhelmed, two plants would have been more than enough for us and all our
neighbours. They are determinate plants so you just let them grow, but they
only get to about a foot tall but spread out 3ft+ making picking difficult.
Nice taste and very juicy.
Next year I intend to plant two and try them in hanging baskets.

They are listed as being for hanging baskets but did you grow them as
uprights? I like the sound of them but the seeds are not cheap! Would
they be better in hanging baskets?

Pam in Bristol

"Pam Moore" wrote

snip
Losetto!

I planted a whole packet of seeds, that's 6, and planted out 6 plants so
100% germination. We were inundated with cherry tomatoes, totally
overwhelmed, two plants would have been more than enough for us and all
our
neighbours. They are determinate plants so you just let them grow, but
they
only get to about a foot tall but spread out 3ft+ making picking
difficult.
Nice taste and very juicy.
Next year I intend to plant two and try them in hanging baskets.

They are listed as being for hanging baskets but did you grow them as
uprights? I like the sound of them but the seeds are not cheap! Would
they be better in hanging baskets?


Unfortunately nothing I read said "for hanging baskets" before I planted
them out on our allotment.
They are determinate and simply refused to grow upward, they just grew
outward. From my experience this year hanging baskets or similar are the
only way to go with these especially if you are not up to crawling about on
your hands and knees picking fruit. Even then we could not actually get to
lots underneath the plant, not that it mattered as we had so many.

One thing to mention, they have nice thin skins so once fully ripe they
split easily so best picked early if you want to get them home in one piece.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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