Tomato 'Siletz'

I live in a coastal area with (often) cool summers. I grow six early tomatoes on my deck for insurance against a really cool year and a ...Read Moremix of 25 early and late in the garden. Siletz was the first full size tomato to ripen for me and I rate the flavor and texture of this on as very good. Most fruit are in the 3/4 lb range, one was odd shaped and over 1-1/2 lb and made an excellent meal for 2 cored and stuffed with tuna salad. I think this one will join my list for every year- maybe with one on the deck and another in the garden.

This is the largest tomato I've been able to grow in an unheated greenhouse in Anchorage, AK and it is one of the only medium to large-si...Read Morezed tomatoes I've grown in the greenhouse that doesn't turn out mealy. In fact, it is delicious!

6/27/04: I am growing this cultivar for the second year now and like it very well. The fruit is red, large (up to 1 1/2#) and full flavor...Read Moreed. I planted last Feb inside, put them out around the end of April and expect to have ripe fruit around mid-July. They set fruit when temperature is at and above the upper 50's F. The one thing I dislike about them is that they have a fairly frequent occurance of growths at maturity on the bloom end of the fruit. I am trying to select that out. This varitey was developed by James Baggett of Oregon State University.

One of the best tomato varieties I have ever grown. Here are some specifics:
- fruit set occurs when it is cooler and when it is...Read More warm; few if any blossom drops
- a very meaty fruit; very small percentage is gel
- it is listed as a determinate variety but I have all stages of fruit on the plant; perhaps a semi-indeterminate would be better
- large fruit 10 - 12 oz. but some in the 6 - 8 oz. size
- a wonderful flavor; a sweet acid taste; one of the best tasting varieties I have ever grown
- very thin skinned
- very heavy foliage; no trace of sun scald
- very thick stem; the plant still need staking
- listed as a 52 day variety but mine started to be picked at 67 days (still OK by me)
- an unbelieable producer; some 3 and 4 fruits per cluster (at 8-12 oz.)