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No flavour in tomatoes

shirl.walkeshirl.walke Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
I sewed Heinz tomato seeds.  I have been watering in the morning and when we had the very hot weather watered again halfway through the day as they were flagging.  Have lovely big tomatoes but no taste whatsoever.  What have I done wrong.  Have fed according to instructions for tomorite.
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  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    I didn't realize you could get the actual Heinz seeds, had to Google that. Clever marketing! Looks like they really are intended for soups and sauces, and perhaps that's why they don't taste great eaten directly. Also, if you slightly stress tomatoes when they ripen (by reducing watering slightly), the flavor often intensifies. But my first suggestion would be to try a different variety, perhaps Gardeners Delight which is reliable and tasty. There's also a topic on here with people's ratings of various types.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I have not found any of the paste tomatoes to have a good taste when eaten fresh, people go on about san marzano etc as really full of flavour and I find them tasteless raw, but cooked into sauce or ketchup they come into their own.
    It could also be to do with your soil/climate, some varieties I have grown were tasteless this year Gardeners Delight is the really stand out tasteless one, they taste like a supermarket tomato in January. So try a different variety and even though you do everything exactly the same you may well get a very different result.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Ha, I have grown a Gardener's Delight tomato (bought for a quid from the end of someone's drive during lockdown). Waste of time, the tomatoes are floury and tasteless. Would have been better off spending my quid on a pack of cherry toms from Aldi.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    How weird. My Gardeners Delight are great this year, full of taste! I blame the gardeners  ;)
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Gardener's Delight have been around for over 150 years and are still one of the most home grown tomatoes.
    I've always found them very tasty.

    Bear in mind that tomatoes will loose flavour if they are chilled, so never keep them in the fridge.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited September 2020
    Maybe it's the weather conditions, maybe the tomato wasn't as labelled? Anyway mine have been floury and a bit insipid. Last time growing them for me, the garden is too small to justify the space taken.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    The forum felt it wasn’t a  cherry tomato as it was too big and as it has been grown for so long, there are many different strains, leading to variable results.
     Gardeners delight have lost their AGM that quote is the reasoning why and may explain why some of us do not like them. Mine were certainly cherry tomato size but as I said totally tasteless. I have 4 other types of tomato in the same pollytunnel (Rosella, sungold, Victorian Dwarf and Illdi) and they all taste great so it's not culture per say, though of course they could just not like my soil.








  • shirl.walkeshirl.walke Posts: 2
    I did wonder about overwatering.  Read better to water in the morning and not the evening.  I did give them a big drink each time so maybe too much
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I grew them a few years ago. Straight on the compost heap. Mushy and tasteless.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I would guess you have over watered.
    I have grown Gardeners Delight as my first choice for flavour for many years. I have just started picking mine and once again, sweet and tasty. Mine have always been intermediate fruit so larger than a cherry but smaller than a standard fruit.
    I grew one plant which grew as an unknown seedling found in my home made compost so no idea what it was except I thought it was probably a shop tomato. A waste of time. Plenty of fruit but floury and tasteless. Probably half a F1 cross.
    Also tried one plant of Russian Black, a bush type, plenty of growth, a bit shy to flower and not one tomato set. It is in the same greenhouse as my Gardeners Delight which are all loaded with fruit, 40-45 tomatoes per truss so fertilization not the problem.
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