Jeremiah Squingelli

I'm growing out tomatoes from all my favorites among seeds i saved from wildling and Q series last year. Some red tomatoes that produced exceptionally well, lots of orange tomatoes including one that tastes distinctly like a very sweet canteloupe, and the yellow "sea urchin" type. I'm just gonna keep refining my favorites and see how they go.

The one I'm most excited to grow this year is from the plant that produced bright orange fruit that tasted exactly like canteloupe.

Assuming that the "fish - sea urchin" tastes are from S. pennellii - or a mix of chemicals from S. habrochaites - domestics mixed with S. pennellii.

Makes sense, because that yellow "sea urchin" one posted above looks identical to the one I thought tasted fishy.

All my yellow tomatoes this season came off of one great big indeterminate that I'm pretty sure came out of the wildling bunch, every tomato I've tried off of it has had a really weird sort of fish-oil flavor that I just can't un-taste, I have saved seeds from it regardless because it has been an incredibly hardy plant.

The oranges are what I primarily got, they're a mixed bag. A couple of the plants produced really ridiculously sweet orange tomatoes that were great, others were weird and off-tasting with too much of a slimy or mealy texture.

My most productive determinate was a red type that had a really great classic tomato flavor, I definitely plan on replanting seeds from it.

My favorite tasting tomato this season though, was actually not even one of joseph's tomatoes, it was a green when ripe variety called Karma Miracle, it was so sweet it was like biting into a kiwi, only issue is it won't hardly produce. If I could have that flavor with the hardiness and productivity of joseph's tomatoes it would probably be my perfect tomato.

I'm starting a second generation of tomatoes from seeds I saved over the spring, no idea if they were from Q series or wildling series considering I just mixed them all together anyways, I saved from anything that produced decently.

Also, out of joseph's tomatoes, has anybody had one with a flavor reminiscent of fish? Because I was eating a pretty sweet and tasty yellow tomato a few days ago and it had this really mild note of a flavor that I couldn't quite place, until I finally recognized it as sort of fishy. It wasn't strong, I had to take a few bites to pick it out fully, but it was there. It wasn't unpleasant, just a little odd.

Alright, I realized I'm too socially awkward to make a video, I tried several times but it just wasn't happening. So instead I have a nice gallery of pictures.
I wanted to get pictures of flowers previously, but my phone completely refused to focus on them and it just wasn't going to work. As far as flowers go, most are fairly typical tomato flowers with some being much fatter and wider than I typically see, almost all are exserted to some degree. One interesting thing about them is just how curly and twisted the flowers are, I've also seen leaves growing straight out of a flower cluster in a way that just does not look typical of a domestic tomato. Anyways, here's my gallery.

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An extra large tomato from a plant that is producing nice sized orange beefsteaks, they're so absurdly sweet they leave your hands sticky like mango or something. Unfortunately this particular one started rotting before it could finish ripening, but I've gotten other great tomatoes off of this plant.

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One of my favorites, it's just a very thin, vertical little thing with minimal foliage. But produced lots of really nice golf ball sized sweet tomatoes with a really distinct sort of charcoal-smokiness to them.

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Another favorite. It's a tiny little hideous twisted mess, completely loaded with tomatoes and would be productive beyond all reason in a more suitable environment most likely. Definitely not quite the flavor profile that joseph was going for, a strong, balanced, classic tasting tomato. Nice saladette sized beefsteaks, with some more round. Very deep red when ripe.

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The plant this one is from only produced a couple tomatoes that I've not had the chance to try yet, they're still ripening. But despite that, I quite like the unique shape, so I'll probably save seeds from it.

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Out of all of what I planted out of joseph's tomatoes, this is easily the largest plant. Its been really slow and hasn't actually had a ripe tomato yet, but it looks very healthy and it's starting to get quite a lot of fruit.

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And finally a bunch either ripe or ripening. So far, they've all either been a nice deep red, a sort of warm yellow-orange, or somewhere inbetween.
Sorry about not embedding the images, I didn't realize how huge they were until after I had gotten everything written out and they took up several screens worth of real estate in the preview.

Some time this week I think I'm actually going to make a video just talking and walking around my garden area contrasting the promiscuous tomatoes with the heirlooms I planted this year, it's pretty wild how much better the promiscuous tomatoes are doing in pretty much every way. They're completely thriving and loaded with ripening tomatoes, meanwhile the majority of my heirlooms haven't even set a single fruit yet, and the ones that have are barely producing anything.

I tried a few this year, they were the first things to get diseased and they just got completely ravaged. Definitely not doable in places with high disease and pest pressure like florida. Also with how small they are, the tomato worms can really do a lot of damage to them overnight, and they don't really recover well.

I added calcium when I planted, have a shadecloth, have not missed watering a day, and I still can't seem to escape the blossom end rot in tomatoes around here. Its just been so hot and dry.

Here's a really messy flower cluster, with a very strangely placed leaf branch just growing straight out of the cluster of flowers.


Another flower cluster. I'm not sure why the flower clusters are all so twisted and curled like, the plants seem otherwise very healthy, but they're all like that.




Finally a selection of fruit. I'm surprised at how reliably they seem to be setting fruit overall, they're incredibly prolific so far.

They're getting so many fruit right now, a surprising amount of them look really heavily fluted/wrinkled, and one of them is almost perfectly round with a light green bottom and dark green pigment on top like black from tula or some other black type heirloom. Really excited to see how large they get and how they look ripe.
Very unusually, the stinkbugs and hornworms have completely ignored them so far, they've attacked my heirlooms and tomatillos, but the promiscuous hybrids have been completely untouched.