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'Dr. Wyche's Yellow' Tomatoes

Sub-Category:	Standard Main-Season

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Main-season standard tomato. Indeterminate plants bear 1-pound, yellow-orange fruit.
Days To Maturity:	75-85
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014 Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

Rating Summary

Overall: (3.5 Stars) Taste: (4.2 Stars) Yield: (3.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (2.8 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 4

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 10/05/2020 by TheFluffyOne - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Kane, Illinois, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
I grew to specimens of this variety in 2020. This was an odd year for tomatotes. Everything was late. this year, but that being said Dr. Wyche;s Yellow was the latest to fruit by three weeks. Considering I grow mostly great tasting heirlooms (Cherokee Purple, various version of Brandywine etc, etc) that is saying something. I Planted them out on May 15th and my first fruit for this variety was mid-September. \r\n\r\nLike many excellent tasting OPs, it was a light producer, but this was lighter than most. I got 4 tomatoes (of good size) per plant\r\n\r\nThe flavor was excellent. not exactly mild, but leaning toward a very pleasant orangey-citrus taste which is delightful to contract in a BLT with a more tomatoey tomato like Brandywine or Cherokee Purple. \r\n\r\nI will grow this again. To my taste it beats Yellow Brandywine and the potato and regular leaf Kellogsg\'s Breakfast by a good margin, in fact I decided to try it as a replacement fort those two varieties. \r\n\r\nI am a bit troubled by the seeming lateness and light yield, but once again I only grew 2 specimens and this was my first year growing it. \r\n\r\nIf productivity matters, although the taste is not comparable in taste (as in they simply taste very different, but each wonderful in its own way) but about the same quality, I would suggest Amana Orange, which is earlies, seemingly more productive and has an excellent, citrus taste, that while different will not disappoint. \r\n\r\nI will continue to grow this, as I really, really liked the taste. It was very different and in a good way.

Reviewed on 09/10/2008 by FarmerDoug -
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Culpeper, Virginia, United States Frost Free Season: Soil Texture: Garden Size: Sun Exposure:
I'm not sure why Best Chance called this a white tomato. It's a bright yellow deepening to a golden orange when completely ripe. These tomatoes have a long ripening period and can be eaten from the yellow stage when they are slightly more acidic to the deep orange stage when they become very mild. The flavor is superb and they produce the highest percentage of marketable fruit for any yellow heirloom I've grown. Very resistant to cracking, the fruits tend to be slightly oblong at the bottom with nice square shoulders at the top.

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Reviewed on 02/10/2007 by otter - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Montgomery, Maryland, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This and Brandywine are the most delicious varieties I grow. Friends and coworkers fight over them. Deep gold fruits routinely run 14-22 oz. Not very disease-resistant; however, is sufficiently robust to keep producing even with fusarium if treated well.

Reviewed on 01/13/2007 by Best Chance - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Oakland, Michigan, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
Maybe I just don't care for white tomatoes. These were very average and I really don't love the flavor. You be the judge.

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