They're amazing. Great complexity and perfect sweet/tart balance. The plant is 7 feet tall. Eastern PA

A little heat spell and missed watering did a bit of a number on them, but they are still tasty!

My grandma who grew up on a farm says I should leave it, I’ve seen some Reddit threads suggesting I pick it. What should I do? We have a lot of rain coming. Thank you!

We’ve been waiting so long for one of these

My first big boy of the season 🍅 mortgage lifter

When I saw a standard issue red round hybrid sitting at the farmers market, my internal snob was instantly activated. I'll be honest with you, I bought it with the sole purpose of proving to myself (and possibly a couple of neighbors) that it cannot compare to my lovingly raised prized heirlooms. You know, the ones getting the most expensive fertilizer in my garden. The ones I bought a personal electric toothbrush for. The ones I greet every morning in the sweetest tone of voice.

I bought a grand total of two Mountain Pride fruit, expecting the tomato equivalent of a polite handshake from a stranger. Functional, entirely predictable, profoundly boring, and very forgettable.

After all, commercial hybrid tomatoes are engineered to survive a crosscountry shipping container rather than actually taste good. We, my dear tomato crazy comrades, know better, right?

Spoiler: not entirely.

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​Slicing it open revealed a dense, handsome, deep-red interior that held its shape without weeping all over the cutting board. I was immediately impressed. The core wasn't present, the yellow skin was not obtrusively thick. This looked like a tomato that can be successfully turned into either sandwich, salad, or sauce.

Was it as seedless as Mr.Stripey? No, but it wasn't too seedy! Was it as silky smooth as Kelloggs Breakfast? No, but it wasn't at all mealy! Instead, the texture was very balanced. Firm but not hard, meaty but not rubbery. Every single feature of this tomato is balanced. Nothing sticks out, but nothing offends kind of deal.

But the real shocker was the flavor. Eating a slice, together with my humble pie, it actually tasted like a good tomato! It’s got that classic, old-school balance of tomato acidity, tomato sweetness, and a rather rich backing flavor of nostalgia. Flavor that defies this tomato's commercial pedigree.

Mountain Pride variety was created in a university lab garden somewhere in NC to be very resistant, good looking, and capable of surviving rough handling. I'm glad there was at least one foodie on the team who didn't just settle but made sure it also tasted good. I can just see that unnamed hero pound their fist on the table in the meeting room, demanding an extra column to be added to the spreadsheet, the one for flavor.

The team made sure that Mountain Pride was very palatable, if not downright enjoyable. If I were to squeeze this review into just one sentence, it would be, "this tomato is supremely balanced in every single way."

Sometimes the underdogs (and the overengineered workhorses) surprise you. 🤷‍♀️

I have 4 tomato plants that I started from seeds in early April. This week I picked my first fruits!! They’re so tasty! And believe it or not, they are grown indoors, in a high rise. I have STRONG south light, and they’ve been doing good! My biggest tom has 11 trusses of fruit/flowers currently! Have had no issues, no BER, they’ve got taste (me and 3 co workers all had some).

2 plants are grape tomatoes and 2 are mini san marzanos (minzanos). Waiting was painful!!! But worth it 🍅💜😊

I was in a bit of a hurry when I picked this tomato and it's been at least a week sitting on the counter, to finish ripening. I don't know whether I got it off the BK or the CP tomato plant. The other CP tomato I had was watery and cracking and not very flavorful. The one CP I was waiting on, still on a plant, got mangled by a squirrel before it turned. This tomato was really flavorful.

Just a little experiment to show the non-believers. 4 days.

RI - 7b

Blue Tonics were first to go, have some Lemon Boys, and Marmangos right around the corner

They should be green zebras (I lost a bit track of which plant is which :D)

Finally my tomato season is coming,

In picture XxgAu, black cherry, bunny kisses, sungold, E-glut, Adora.

I know people gonna say, "it's not fully ripe",but rainy days is coming, so i dont want them to cracked, and the Adora is eatable from early maturing level so i have to try them.

So excited for many more to come.

Gotta teach em young.

It could have used another day ripening, butit had the skin broken and was starting to break down. Looking forward to many more inthe coming months.

Hi all.

Can someone help me to identify what's going on with my plants? Pretty much all of them are affected. Is this disease or something I can fix? The plants are getting plenty of water and regular feeding. They're are otherwise growing well with plenty of fruits. Al says magnesium deficiency but I want to be sure before I try to fix it.

Leaf yellowing and spotting. Also a couple of plans are seeing some yellowing on the stems and branches which has appeared recently.

I'm in the UK and we've been having quite a long heatwave at the moment, could it be related?

Raspberry Lyanna 2nd from top left and Apricot Zebra bottom left are the clear winners so far for me

I wanted to let my Coyote plant get out of control this year to see what he could do and he’s not disappointing me 🫨 Zone 6b Ohio

Anyone in the UK struggling with with unripe tomatoes at the moment or just me? I have 10 large plants with lots of fruits but not a single edible tomato yet this far into July.

I'm assuming it might be heatwave related? Its my first time growing anything. I was expecting to have tasted one by now. Patience is a virtue i guess!

Same for my chilli's as well! Loads of fruits but only a couple of ripe jalapenos but you eat them green anyway!

This Mr Stripey plant has just been beat to hell and back with the massive thunderstorms we’ve been having. Zone 6b. I found it totally bent flat to the ground yesterday. I staked it up the best I could and the roots never actually came out of the ground. It’s got at least a dozen tomatoes on it and I’m afraid of loosing them.

We just started to plant tomatoes this year, and we have been getting mixed opinions on whether we should pick them before they have turned fully red or leave them on the vine to do so.

Our friend picked these 2 off, saying they will turn bright red on our counter in a few days and be ready to slice into. Were they correct, or did they harvest these too early?

We still have dozens of smaller ones growing, so we didn't feel too bad if that was the case, but we wanted to ask before we tried again later.