However, I ended up just watching them grow and grow, waiting and waiting to ripen! All summer long I didn't have ONE ripe tomato, and since I live in Zone 2, I thought for sure we'd see frost before my tomatoes ripened! Even now 60% of the tomatoes are still on the plant, some are still the size of a tennis ball while others.... well just look at the pics! Finally, we got a warm spell (our summer was VERY cool, unusually so) and some of them ripened over the next 48 hours. I took my first tomato, cut it open and Wow! Look at that pattern! I've never bought a tomato like this at the store, and WOW did they grow BIG!!

The picture of the tomatoes on the plant is one tiny ripened one, the only one ripe but still uneaten. The comparison is to other tomatoes of more average size off the same plant, still green however.

So sure, I waited a long time, and sure they were big... but the biggest thing was the Flavor!! They tasted like the deepest, richest flavoured tomato I've ever had! I even sliced a store-bought tomato and ate to compare... literally NO similarity. You may be able to say this for any store bought tomato vs. any organically home grown tomato, but I think these are very special.

Does anyone know what kind they are?? Thanks in advance!!

If your plant is special, save the seeds and maybe you will get same type of fruit next year. You can go back to the store and try to figure it out.

PC

As for type, I have no idea. But since you didn't remember the name then maybe it was generically packaged as "Beefsteak" etc etc.

Hold onto seed and start them a couple of weeks earlier than your other seeds. If next summer's temps are higher then maybe it will coax more production out of the them.

Steve.