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'Red Lightning' Tomatoes |
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Main-season standard tomato. Improved version of heirloom 'Red Zebra' Indeterminate, 5-foot plants bear red 2 1/2- to 3-inch fruit with yellow stripes.
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (2.5 Stars)
Taste: (2.2 Stars)
Yield: (2.2 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 01/17/2010 by
RBGardener
- An intermediate gardener
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Gloucester, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Grew this summer of '08 and was very disappointed. Lovely color, but as with other reviewers, taste was fair, skin was very tough and it had a lot of blossom end rot which did not bother the other tomato varieties that I had planted. This one joined my will not be replanted list. |
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Reviewed on 01/06/2008 by
Booberry85
- An intermediate gardener
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Onondaga, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| This was a beautiful looking small tomato with red and orange streaks. The taste was terribly bitter & sour. The yield was average. |
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Reviewed on 01/13/2007 by
Best Chance
- An intermediate gardener
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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
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| Wow- this tomato was beautiful, but it quickly picked up blossom end rot and was the only tomato to consistently do so. The ones that servived had very chewy skin and were pretty bland. |
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Reviewed on 12/10/2006 by
pepperhead212
- An experienced gardener
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Gloucester, New Jersey, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I had to order this one, since it was said it was a relative of green zibra - my favorite flavored tomato. It is similar, with 4'-5' tall plants, though a bit smaller fruits - 1 1/2"-2" red and yellow striped fruits, and not quite as productive, though this year was a bad tomato year, due to heat. This one did not keep producing during the worst of the summer, and dropped a lot of blossoms, but all except two of my varieties did this. Green zebra was the most heat resistant, so those genes aren't in this! However, as with green zebra, the flavor is great, so I will try again, and hope for better weather! A very similar tomato, the RED ZEBRA, isn't the same, in my experience, as the latter had much smaller plants, and was wiped out by a blight, the one year I grew that. |
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