I believe this version is called sungreen 4029. Second picture is comparing the color to citrine (they are typically the same size as each other). Hopefully, this helps others know when sungreen are ripe.
I grew this variety to have more color in the garden and to confuse my girlfriend. She loves the taste after tasting them (I do as well). Taste wise, I find it very similar to citrine, which supposedly tastes like sungold. However, I dont taste any tartness with these or citrine. To my memory, sungold had a tartness to it that I really enjoy. My girlfriend says citrine has a tartness to them but I cant taste it. Anyways, for those that haven't tasted citrine or sungreen, I would explain it as a very mild tomato taste (as in i barely can taste any tomato flavor in it) while being sweet.
Sungold didnt survive this season so I have to go off of memory for its taste. However, both citrine and sungreen absolutely thrived in this environment. I cant say the same thing about sungold unfortunately. Ill grow sungold again just to compare the flavor, but I find the variety to have bad blossom drop here. While I say that I love sungold's flavor, sungreen's flavor is good enough for me to use it as a replacement. I believe next season will be the season to determine if I continue to grow them.
Anyways, sungreen thrived in my location where is rarely goes below 78 degrees at night and averages 95+ degrees during the day. The culture I used was the kratky method where the root temps were regularly in the 100s. Seems to have great heat tolerance and heat set.
by thuglifecarlo
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It’s an interesting adventure to work out what varieties work in difficult location. Sounds like you are making steady progress!
Where did you buy your seeds for Sungreen from? I used to buy mine from Totally Tomatoes but they no longer carry the variety.