Tomato 'Brandy Boy'

The flavor is awesome, but production was fairly low both this year and last. This year, the tomatoes seemed particularly susceptible to ...Read Moreblossom end rot. I still have some of Burpee's expensive seeds, so I probably will try it one more season, but this variety is losing my love steadily.

I give it a positive rating because of the taste and because it is the only Brandywine of any kind that has ever produced fruit for me. ...Read MoreOf 5 plants I set out 3 produced ripe fruit but only 2 produced the large tomatoes one associates with the name. They didn't produce many toms only about 6 or 7 on each plant before giving in to disease. I will keep growing this as long as I can get the seed.

My favorite hybrid. One of the first tomatoes I chose to grow. Will probably grow it as long as I garden.

In my garden, ...Read Moreproduces good tasting tomatoes, seems to resist disease, very productive.

I grew these from seed in 5 gallon buckets on my deck. I've never grown Brandywines before so I can't compare them to the original but th...Read Moree flavor is excellent. Easily one of the tastiest tomatoes I've ever grown.

Production is good. I've already picked a few that were easily over 1 pound. Fruits are very meaty inside but seem to be prone to cracking.

I will definitely grow these again.

A really fine tomato. Very large, meaty, very few seeds, sweet. used to grow brandywine and this is so much more productive I see no re...Read Moreason to go back. Freezes well.

Very good to excellent taste for a hybrid. However, it isn't significantly more productive for me than the real deal -- Brandywine.

It's a winner in my garden. Great taste, no disease problem, robust plant, fruit in the 1 lb. range, no cracking or catfacing. Wil...Read Morel have it again next year & intend to also plant Brandywine, Sudduth to compare.

For me it lived up to it's billing as having a more manageable upright growth habit. The plant itself is beautiful. (But, I've met few ug...Read Morely tomato plants.) Also the goal of a more consistent fruit shape panned out for me.

Taste is very good with that bit of acidiness that a tomato must have. (Leflora had the perfect description of taste as having a Brandywine "essence".)

Plants have a bit of early blight problems under the grow lights if crowded even slightly. They need lots of air flow.

Bottom line: The heirloom snobs won't like it, and might as well grow the original Brandywine. If you just like tomato variety, then plant a few of them. They are nice plants.

Brandy Boy did great in Central Florida. I grew it in an Earth Box in 2003 and it far exceeded my expectations, which I had based on my B...Read Morerandywine experiences. Brandy Boy has excellent flavor for a hybrid -- not quite as flavorful as Brandywine but it does contain that Brandywine "essence" (don't know how else to explain it). Brandy Boy is a heavy producer and is disease resistant, a big plus in my hot, humid climate where early blight sets in really early.

Found this to be a very successful variety for the hot Sacramento Valley. Most of my fruit was in the one pound range, no cracking, great...Read More taste and heavy bearing. Plants were in 7 1/2 cages and grew to 10-11 feet. Planted next to Red Brandywine, it was hard to distinguish between the two varieties. Yields were about the same. As this was the first year for Brandy Boy in my garden (2003) we will see what happens in 2004 for my Brandywines seem to change their yields in some years.

Taste was very good maybe not heirloom good but much earlier and very productive. I will plant again this year for sure.

Nearly no cat-facing on these nice big slicers -- up to a pound (though I've not gotten any that big...yet!). It's resistant to:
...Read MoreFusarium Wilt, Verticillium Wilt, Root Nematodes, and Tobacco Mosaic (T), the first two of which we have trouble with here. No real big sign of them on the plant yet, which is GREAT. The heirlooms have been dropping leaves all over the place.

The blurbs say "this new introduction produces four to five times the yield of the famous heirloom and matures 10 days earlier (78 days)...", and I like 'em just fine. The fruits are VERY fragrant, very sweet, a little bit of acid, lovely smooth texture, rather more pulp than juice, but are prone to splitting. A definite MUST for my shady garden this year.

This variety was a disappointment for me; the plants were very vigorous and productive, but the tomatoes had less flavor than, and were e...Read Morevery bit as irregular in shape as, Brandywine. Can't say if they were actually earlier because I unfortunately didn't grow the original Brandywine variety for a side by side comparison. I wouldn't grow these again.

Similar to 'Brandywine' in growth and form. Taste was similar, but not quite as strong on flavor; a little earlier and more prolific.