I spent the summer and fall sampling different tomatoes at my local farmer's market and BeOrange is my new favorite! Just looked up the seeds to maybe try growing them next year and they are wildly expensive. I'd love to hear about experiences growing these and whether they are worth the investment!
*edit- photo is from Johnny's Seeds
by FalcorsLittleHelper
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What did they taste like? Pretty sweet? Never seen them before but they look just like my persimmon tomatoes.
We grew some of these for the first time this year and they are sweet. Not my favorite on BLTs but just a tomato sandwich by itself. It was delicious.
Beautiful! They look like Japanese persimmons! They are someone’s fancy trademarked F1 hybrid with improved disease resistances. Often supposedly with other improved traits such as richer color, less splitting, higher flavonoids and sugar etc. $25 for 15 seeds seems like a lot, but if they’re as good as they/you say, probably easily worth the investment. If you’re into tomatoes that is.
This looks like the photo from Johnny’s Seeds website. If so, please at least credit it.
They’re optimized for greenhouse growing so they command a higher price for the work that’s gone into the seeds. Read the growing description carefully on the Johnny’s page. They’re super prolific, not my favorite flavor-wise but if you love them they’d be worth the cost. Just understand you’ll probably have a LOT.
Wow, looked up the seeds for these $26 for 15 of them.
They are good but the seed is too expensive
First time I’ve heard of these, look quite cool and the flavor sounds interesting. If you liked it maybe it’s worth purchasing the seeds 🙂
I really like them. A good amount of sweetness, but enough acid to have good true tomato flavor.
greenhouse variety, been around a long time, $$$ you would not grow them outside