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Last year I grew black red, and pink varieties of Brandywine tomatoes. The red did very poorly and only produced about 3 large fruits, t...Read More
Excellent tomato. We had a hot summer and it seemed to thrive. Lots of big tasty fruit.
We had a taste-off pitting Paul Ro...Read More
I was really looking forward to this one. We grew this tomato in an Earthbox during the summer of 2015 in Salt Lake City. There were se...Read More
Growing 2 plants in 5-gallon buckets this year. Plenty of fruit, but the first batch on both plants had a brown-grey area around the blos...Read More
Big plants, big tomatoes & great flavor. 1-2 pound fruits with minimal splitting or bizarre shapes. Perfect for covering an entire sand...Read More
Tough to grow, but in my opinion the best tasting tomato. Very complex flavor that is not overly sweet. A perfectly balanced tomato. If y...Read More
I got this from a big box store as "pink potato leaf brandywine," and it has been my "must grow" every year. Great tomatoes. Large, wit...Read More
I grew a Pink Brandywine for the first time last year. I bought it at a nursery and it was marketed mistakenly as "Red Brandywine" but b...Read More
Love the Brandywine taste. Poor yields, which is typical Brandywine. Sudduth's Strain doesn't seem to be any real improvement as far as...Read More
Rates near the top in flavor, but I get poor yields both in number of fruit and in having to cut away bad portions. Palestinian is a better variety.
I raised 8 different heirloom tomatoes last year and Brandywine came in dead last. Had a lot of blossom drop (if I need to spend extra t...Read More
I have planted Brandywines half a dozen times, including plain Brandywine, Pink Brandywine, Suddeth Strain, and Cowlicks Strain, and they...Read More
Weight-wise, Brandywine ranges from 1-2 lbs. Shape-wise, it’s a good-looking tomato – round, smooth-skinned, and uniform from fruit-...Read More
Plant was very late producing blossoms, and no tomatoes so far this season, when other plants are loaded and just starting to ripen. Wil...Read More
Brandywine always seems to win the local Tomato contests. It must like cool summers since only the bay area and those in northern short s...Read More
I was glad to see that someone has reported good luck with this strain in Broomfield, Colorado. I had to dig mine out, roots and all, an...Read More
I really dont see what the fuss is about. Its not like its the best tomato I ever had --- but here it grew very well. Is very healthy a...Read More
This is a good tasting tomato but the reason why I am giving it a neutral rating is because it's poor production, I don't have a lot of b...Read More
great tasting, average yields of very large tomatoes. i am in zone 7 of south carolina which due to humidity and high temps is rough on ...Read More
I will never ever ever eat another hybrid tomato again. Less disease resistant? Yes, but proper crop rotation and watering the soil inste...Read More
Not prolific in my climate, but very good tasting.
Delighted to report Brandywine growing well, both indoors and outdoors, in Dublin, Ireland. No one believes it especially since this was ...Read More
I have tryed this variety for a few years,,we get a "good"(warm) long tomatoe season about every 3 years here in this true zone 3,, I thi...Read More
Last year was my first year to grow Brandywine. It was truly delicious. Although the first fruit developed blossom end rot, the subsequ...Read More
This is a very late tomato. Later than my regular brandywines. By the time they started to come in I was swamped with tomatoes so I am no...Read More
I have grown this plant for the last three years and can personally say have a most terrific flavour. Only get about 12 tomatoes a plant...Read More
I grew this tomato for the first- and last time this past summer.
It did not like our hot, humid Georgia weather. What few friuts ...Read More
My least favorite of the fifteen varieties that I grow. They are so prone to cracking (being so heavily lobed) that most of the friut is ...Read More
It is a favorite for a reason...great taste.
I find it does best trellised using hanging twines rather than my concrete me...Read More
Thank God for this database. I now know what I have growing in our tomato garden.
This was an incredible year for growing ...Read More
This is my first year growing this Tomato. So far this year it has been a big success in Chicago.
It was the first tomato...Read More
This is the 2nd time I am trying Brandywines. Last year I had a beautiful plant, many blossoms, not one tomato. All blossoms fell off. ...Read More
I grew the pink Brandywine two years in a row. I had lots of volunteers the second year from the first year. Most of the plants were trai...Read More
It is still very early in the season, however I have noticed that the leaves of this plant are diffrent from all the other tomato's I hav...Read More
This is a great tomato. I had no trouble growing it in my Louisiana garden. Huge fruit with great flavor and lots of tomatoes.
At this point, we are discussing several cultivars under the same heading. Pictures and most of the discussion is about the pink Branywin...Read More
I have grown Brandywine the last two seasons; the overall result (flavor) is worth the effort. Plants reach 36-42" caged. One main stem w...Read More
This one came out of the gate like a race horse. However, it died before the finish. I've tried 3 different type of this gene and not one...Read More
I grew it last year (south Ohio, humid summers) and only got 3 fruits at the end of september. Worth it for that taste, though. Growing a...Read More
I only grew this one once and it did very well here, grew a huge bush and huge tomatoes. I didn't care for its flavor as much as other to...Read More
I grew two of these plants last season. Despite achieving a great height, they only produced three tomatoes between them. I'd post a "N...Read More
I got my plant in at a swap, and was so excited to see the large red tomatoes. I live in Texas (Zone 8). Normally we grow tomatoes in ful...Read More
We just put one plant out on our deck but it's done great. Fruit set was slow at first but I just shook the tomatoe cage gently each tim...Read More
I live in Middle Tennessee and these plants performed beautifully for me. I planted 75 of them in my garden and none of them disappointe...Read More
West Kootenay, BC, Canada..
In 2002, an extraordinary year for growing here, this tomato was generally a poor performer.
La...Read More
I have grown these for several years in Iowa and still don't know what all the fuss is about. I sometimes wonder if the seed stock is tai...Read More
I love the taste of this tomato! Yes, some of the fruit does crack when ripening fully on the vines, but it seems to me an abundance of r...Read More
I'm growing Brandywine this year. We have hot humid summers here in Ottawa, Canada, and it seems to do well in this climate. I had some ...Read More
In my area disease resistance is a must. It has been my experience that this variety has no disease tolerance at all. My plants started o...Read More
This variety produces very well here in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. I grow in a comunity garden center and it is a l...Read More
Another green thumb's down for the Brandywine. Though I am only about 2 hours from "Amish" country, this tomato doesn't flourish here in ...Read More
Brandywine is NOT a good tomato for the Southeastern U.S. I have grown it for two years in coastal South Carolina and have not been h...Read More
More 'tomato myths' have been told about Brandywine than any other. It has been tacked with the Amish Heirloom reputation,but in reality ...Read More
One of most famous heirlooms. Consistently rated highest in flavor.
Tomatoes are so big they ripen very unevenly: the bot...Read More