What tomatoes were your biggest disappointment in 2024

[pepperhead212]

I had the same experience with San Marzano, many years ago, and was the last roma I have grown. No special flavor, and had less w/o BER than all those with!

[Dee]

Ropreco. SO much BER. And what was left, the deer snacked on!

[MissS]

Etter's Big Heart of Color it is the very first time in my life that I had a plant that did not produce a single fruit to harvest. Definately a poor producer. One small fruit on the plant when it was time to pull it and it was not big enough to try to save seed from.

[wykvlvr]

Cosmic Cream Centriflor lovely plant well behaved bush with high production. Lovely dark antho covered grape tomatoes. BUT sooo firm and crunchy it was impossible for me to tell when ripe until they started to dry on the counter... I did save seeds from a few and will send in a couple of packets for others who may want that type of tomato.

[Frosti]

Dr. Wyche’s Yellow: Just didn't like the taste.

Gelbe Rispe (yellow micro): The most tasteless cherry tomato, I've ever tried. No wonder with a brix of 4.5 though ...

[wxcrawler]

Polaris was disappointing this year. It has been one of my tried-and-true varieties, producing some of the tastiest large tomatoes for the last several years. But this year, I got 3 tomatoes from 2 plants. I did grow a couple other varieties bred by Karen Olivier, which did better: One-Trick Pony and Cowboy (though my Cowboy tomatoes were prolific, they were much smaller than expected). So a diversified portfolio works!

I've grown Polaris for 5 years now. It's been great 4 of those 5 years, but I did have that one clunker year. It's still such a good tomato, I'll try to grow it every year.

I've grown Cowboy 2 years now, and it's been a workhorse both years. I'll try One Trick Pony over the next couple of seasons when I get my hands on some seed.

Lee