PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Siletz'

6/27/04: I am growing this cultivar for the second year now and like it very well. The fruit is red, large (up to 1 1/2#) and full flavored. I planted last Feb inside, put them out around the end of April and expect to have ripe fruit around mid-July. They set fruit when temperature is at and above the upper 50's F. The one thing I dislike about them is that they have a fairly frequent occurance of growths at maturity on the bloom end of the fruit. I am trying to select that out. This varitey was developed by James Baggett of Oregon State University.

One of the best tomato varieties I have ever grown. Here are some specifics:
- fruit set occurs when it is cooler and when it is warm; few if any blossom drops
- a very meaty fruit; very small percentage is gel
- it is listed as a determinate variety but I have all stages of fruit on the plant; perhaps a semi-indeterminate would be better
- large fruit 10 - 12 oz. but some in the 6 - 8 oz. size
- a wonderful flavor; a sweet acid taste; one of the best tasting varieties I have ever grown
- very thin skinned
- very heavy foliage; no trace of sun scald
- very thick stem; the plant still need staking
- listed as a 52 day variety but mine started to be picked at 67 days (still OK by me)
- an unbelieable producer; some 3 and 4 fruits per cluster (at 8-12 oz.)