Nice comparison. I'm doing some research on which brandywine varieties to grow next year (2024). Your comparison definitely helps me narrow it down 😊. Thanks for making the video.
There are 2 yellow heirlooms that I like to grow, Kellogg's Breakfast and Dr. Wyche's yellow. You have given me an idea for a contest between them and Brandywine next year. Enjoyed the video,
rj gecko these Brandywine Yellows have all the bite of a red tomato. I haven’t tried those you mentioned, so I can’t say what is better, but I can promise you’ll love the Brandywine Yellow! Thanks!
Thanks for the good video. Here in Georgia, Brandywine can struggle due to powdery mildew, black spot, blight, downy mildew. BUT here the BrandyBoy does well with good practices (pruning, mulch to reduce blight splashing up). I'm also a big fan of Cherokee Purple, you might want to give it a try for a great heirloom flavor and decent disease resistance.
TheBrewer3535 I’ve growth Cherokee Purple every year for 4 years straight. It is a great tomato, but the plants quit and go into decline really quickly once the heat sets in. I find Brandy Boy and Brandywine Sudduth to be much more heat tolerant. I notice that as every summer changes weather-wise, different varieties succeed and fail. The safest bet is to grow many kinds, in my opinion. Brandy Boy has always been reliable, though.
Wüste Gobi give it a try. Every year I find more and more great tomatoes. Brandywine Yellow and Dwarf Emerald Giant were to standouts for me this year that blew me away. I’ve never had Black Krim.
Brandywine yellow , platfoot strain is a fine textured sweet tomatoe what does well under the worst conditions, hot, dry or wet.. There are many fine tomatoes starting with any brandywine.
I’m not sure what strain this was, but Yellow was one of the best tomatoes I’ve ever had in my life. I miss them terribly. Once it got above 70 degrees at night, the plants just fell apart. All the flowers dropped and they were overcome by disease. They’re not a strong enough plant for the south to make it past June, it seems. I’ll still grow them next year though because what little fruit I can get in my climate are so worth it! If you have cooler summers, this is a must have!
Lol, I can hear your mouth watering before you bit into that brandy wine yellow and as you were tasting the others. I’m glad you liked it. I’m growing many black varieties and the great white. I have 2 great whites that are soooo close to being ready. I’m not a tomato fan but I WANT to like them so badly. I decided to grow those varieties in hopes that I find something I like. Thanks for sharing and happy growing!
zeppypaige I try to move off camera because I know how some people don’t like hearing people chew...but these were just SOOOO GOOD! They were unbelievable. The Yellow and Pink Sudduth were the two most incredible tomatoes I have ever tasted. Just unreal, unreal. If you want to try and become one, grow a Brandywine Yellow, Brandywine Pink Sudduth and a Cherokee Purple. They’re three of the best tasting heirlooms in existence. When I was a teen I didn’t like raw tomatoes (despite my tomato sauce addiction), but I got into them by becoming a salsa connoisseur. Fresh salsas were my gateway into the tomato world and I developed an addiction. Now I just can’t get enough. If not, purée them, can them and use them for sauces throughout the year. Many people don’t care for raw tomatoes, but who doesn’t love tomato sauce?
@@TheMillennialGardener So I've heard. I am trying Aunt Molly and Isis but no fruit yet. I didn't get the Pineapple one until too late to plant. I have heard and read that the Kajari melon from India is as special as these ground cherries. Do you know it?
Vicki Takacs I think I am growing Aunt Molly’s. I don’t know too much about them. This is the first time I’ve ever tasted one. The Aunt Molly’s tastes like pineapple, vanilla and a cherry tomato, but to get the complex vanilla flavor you need to let them get so ripe they fall off the tree. That’s how you know they’re fully ripe - they fall and you pick them up off the ground. If you pick them off the tree when they’re yellow but not fully ripe, they just taste like a cherry tomato with a hint of pineapple. The real flavor takes patience.
Brandywine tomatoes are amazing but right when they get ready to ripen we usually get our first frost where I live. I get like 2 tomatoes per plant but I agree they taste amazing. Maybe if I get a greenhouse I could grow them better. 🤔
I had always heard how great the brandywine pink is and how the sudduth is the best so one year i finally got brave enough to plant one knowing how its very possible to not even get one tomato from it. I planted 1 sudduth 1 supersteak and 1 brandyboy on the same fence and i used an electric tooth brush on all 3. They all had lots of blooms and looked healthy but the sudduth gave one fruit that rottened before i ever got to eat it and supersteak Was a dud too i dont even recall getting a fruit from it and brandy boy was my boy, he loaded up with nice perfect tomatoes and the taste was the best i had ever had. I grew 4 brandy boy the next year and i told everyone how good it was and for some reason the taste was not there that season but my gosh it gave me so many nice tomatoes some had 8 tomatoes in a cluster and some 6. It pumped out beautiful tomatoes. Im sure i must over watered. Im going to give brandywine sudduth one more chance before i give up.
You may have an issue with fertilizing. Tomatoes are heavy feeders, and they do not do well with high nitrogen fertilizer once they are over 12 inches tall. I recommend using fertilizers like MiracleGro Tomato 18-18-21 every 14 days, along with 2 tablespoons of an organic granulated 5-5-5 or similar. You may want to try the varieties Chef's Choice Pink and Big Brandy. They were both excellent and set fruit very well. Brandywine Sudduth is not a *great* producer, but it should set around 10-12 fruits per plant. Even in my difficult climate, I can usually get 8-12 lbs of fruit off of a plant (the hybrids can yield 50% more). It is telling me something is wrong with your conditions. They either aren't getting enough sun (they need 8-10 hours), not enough food, or you're planting them too late and it's getting too hot too quickly and the flowers are dropping.
Brandywine Pink is the best for us. Cuor di bue (ox heart) is also one of our favorites. The yellow tomatoes didn't do it for the salad but were very good in the oven. I had grown the Kellog's Breakfast not the Brandywine though. I have to try the brandy boy and the cherokee purple...
Brandy Boy is 90% as good as Sudduth, but with 50-100% more yield and more split resistance. It's one of the few hybrids that is heirloom quality. If I could only grow one tomato and have unlimited yields, it would be Brandywine Yellow, though. It completely knocked my socks off. The problem is the yields are terrible. You're only going to get a handful of tomatoes off a plant, at least in a climate like mine. The few you get are worth their weight in gold.
@@TheMillennialGardener In terms of taste, flavour and quality;How is brandy wine yellow tomato is in comparison with saint Pierre tomato and san marzano tomato .??
I grew the pink and yellow Brandywines this year and I found the yellow to be too strong to my liking. I actually didn't care for it and the only one I grew that I wouldn't grow again because of taste. The pink I thought was excellent and in my top 4 (out of 15), but I found that if it was a little overripe, it tasted better. The Brandyboy is on next years list
NEVER compare an heirloom to a hybrid. It's like comparing apples to car parts. There's no need for a home gardener to have perfectly round, uncracked fruit. It's about flavor. Nothing beats a Brandywine. Nothing.
Jerri Dombrowski that’s true in most cases, but many seed companies are purposely making hybridized versions of heirlooms designed to retain the taste and shape of the parent while adding disease resistance and better production. You must compare them directly to the heirloom. That’s what they’re designed to compete with. The Brandy Boy must be compared to Brandywine Sudduth. It was designed to be a direct comparison. The Brandy Boy is 90% as good in taste and does set better looking fruits, and more of them. I’ve been growing it for years. If you have trouble with heirlooms, the Brandy Boy is a good alternative. It’s not a production hybrid, but it does do well in harsh climates like mine.
Nicolo DiCara I have not tried those. I’ve heard great things about Paul Robeson, but hear it doesn’t do well in heat. My summers are very hot, and the heat has long since mowed down all my tomatoes except my Brandywine Sudduth and Brandy Boy. I’m not a big paste tomato guy. Are either of the other two heat tolerant?
Nicolo DiCara my area is tough because by June, it is too hot for fruit to set. Even using an electric toothbrush to vibrate the flowers, they still all fall. 94 during the day, 78 as a low at night means no tomatoes 😅 I keep trying to find a tomato that can handle that kind of heat. The search continues!
crazy clown they’re supposed to be a very uniform and prolific slicer, correct? I’ve heard good things about their uniformity. I don’t grow enough slicers and I insist on growing these behemoths that turn out ugly and cracked half the time!
@@TheMillennialGardener I just heard that Box Cars are very high yielding, and their size varies. They have an acidic taste also from what I've read. I have never grown them before, nor have I tasted or seen one before, outside of pictures and videos. I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out.
@@jsdunaway Unfortunately no. I did grow several varieties of Brandywine this year and they’re all pretty tasty. Pink, Yellow, Orange, True Black, and OTV. You really can’t go wrong with any them. My favorite of the group was the Sudduth Strain Pink Brandywine. I can recommend several seed companies as well. Bounty Hunter Seeds, Baker Creek, TomatoFest, Southern Seed Exchange, Seed Savers Exchange, and Ohio Heirloom Seeds were all good companies to deal with.
I've never had the Bonnie's Best. Maybe I should try one? I do love Brandywine Pink and Yellow Yellow was my favorite tomato ever. I was not impressed with Red and Black.
@@TheMillennialGardener yeah you should. I can only find them in plant form, but they are well worth it I get them every year and start seeds for pink and red Brandy wines. Pretty much live on tomato sandwiches all summer. 😆
Are you still going to grow Brandy Boy? Are the Chef’s Choice better producing and disease tolerant in a hot climate? We like the smoke-earthy and salty flavor tomatoes as well like Black Krim and the dark dwarfs. Cheers!
Yes, I am still growing Brandy Boy. This year, I'm growing Brandy Boy, Big Brandy and Chef's Choice Pink, and I'm skipping out on the true Brandywine Sudduth entirely. The hybrids are so good flavor-wise that it's really not worth struggling with Brandywine Sudduth's stingy production and disease issues when I can get fruit quality that's about the same from the other stronger, more vigorous varieties.
The fertilizer that you put in the hole at transplanting time. Is that the only time you fertilizer? If you do extra fertilizer during the growing season, can you please explain when and how much you do, thank you and great videos
Casey Armstrong thank you so much! No, I fertilize every 7-10 days with soluble fertilizer, and I add a 5-5-5 slow-release every 10-14 days (about 2 tablespoons per plant). Tomatoes are very heavy feeders, as are all nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and eggplant) and need to be fed frequently with light amounts of fertilizer. Some people like to do heavy feedings infrequently, but I find the superior method is to feed often but with diluted, fractional strength dosages.
Casey Armstrong I made a video a year ago that explains this. I probably need to shoot an updated video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9yk2r68jsmQ.html
I've never managed more than 2-3 fruits per Brandywine plant, up Tacoma way. They tasted good but not that much better, for my garden they generally aren't worth the water and weeding. Beefmaster though wow that is a tomato to beat.(I have not yet tried Brandyboy)
I'm guessing your summer is short and doesn't produce enough heat? I have the opposite problem here. My tomatoes do well in April and May, but come June they just get wiped out by heat, rain and disease. I grow them for fun, though. The few that I get are worth it. However, the reason why I grow 15-20 varieties a year is to try and find a few magical varieties that perform and taste great.
@@TheMillennialGardener Long cool(cold) spring/ground, then a short hot and dry summer from end of June to early September then cooling and getting wet again. (night lows in summer are still pretty low even when days are 90f+ nights may only be 60)
U coming me up with new fig videos.i have a problem. My black Madeira kk is not doing too good so what I’m doing is I’m leaving the black Madeira kk in the greenhouse for a little bit I did a text end still alive I’m concerned about that what you think should I put a bag around or just leave it like that in the greenhouse sorry to bother you
Vicki Takacs I am growing 2 True Black Brandywine plants this year. I’ve eaten 3 or 4 and I’m conflicted on the flavor. It tastes nothing like the other brandywines, and I am having a terrible time with them splitting. It is my ugliest tomato by far. I have a few better looking ones ripening on the counter, and I plan to do a comparison versus Cherokee Purple when they’re ready.
@@TheMillennialGardener Oh good as am doing the Cherokee Purple but couldn't get the Black Brandywine in time. I've the Pink one. Do you pull off the blossoms when they're going to be cat-faced? You didn't grow the Chocolate Stripe perchance, did you?
Vicki Takacs my initial taste tests has me believing the Cherokee Purple is vastly superior, but maybe the terrible cracking messed up the ripening. I’ll wait til I get a beauty to reserve final judgment. I do not pull off the cat-faced blossoms, though I’ve never considered that before. Maybe I will next year. I’ve never grown Chocolate Stripe.
@@TheMillennialGardener Taste is what matters and yours looked way better than others I've seen. They've bred all the smell right out of flowers and only focus on the looks of it. I'd rather have ugly and the smell back.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'd cheat and see what others growing it thought of the taste, lol. So many things can affect the flavor that it is incredible. Don't water for a few days before harvesting to deepen flavor, use azomite rock dust for flavor, what time of day you pick, if you've stressed it out sufficiently. See? Epsom salts, nitrogen, calcium. If your ground cherries were delicious, trust your growing. It's probably a pig in a poke and I know I didn't even hear of it until late.
