PlantFiles: Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Mr. Stripey'

I was disappointed only because it was not the kind of tomato I wanted. It was the only one I planted in my small space, and I wanted to make sauce, and the color was kinda creepy for that. However, you couldn't fault it for production of fruit. It was tasty, & struck me as low acid, mildish. There was something about the taste, different enough to classic tomato that I didn't replant, but it had huge, prolific fruit, the bush was rangy & gigantic, and I couldn't keep up with it. Tender skinned, easily split if you weren't a steady waterer, but a lovely slicing sandwich tomato.

Have grown this tomato for 3 years. Although it is a late variety the product is worth the wait. I always have positive comments when I share the tomatoes with others. I shared some plants from my saved seeds this year and those people reported great success. One person told me yesterday that it was their favorite of five heirloom varieties I have shared with them. It takes the Southern heat and humidity in stride. My tomatoes from this variety are 3-4+ inches across. Sorry that others haven't had the same success.

The production of this variety is low. It bears interesting tomatoes and the taste is decent but not worth planting in my area.

I am surprised with all the negative. I have had only positive experiences with this tomato. I love the flavor and have had success in fruit production from a couple plants each year. I raise my tomatoes in raised beds (not so successful) and 5 gal pots using Promix.

This tomato is generally not pretty, in that it is spotted with some rust and cracking - even in self-watering pots. But the flavor is awesome. It is in the running for my favorite - though I'd have a very hard time choosing just one as a favorite.

Attempted two years in a row, tomatoes are too fragile. The skin seems to get broken by almost anything resulting in mushy tomatoes. Taste was not up to par with other varieties. Will not plant again.

Enjoyed Tigerella so thought I would try this larger cousin but after 2 seasons I will scratch this one off my list as "not worth the space". Late and low quality production, blight prone, and while pretty, the taste isn't worth waiting for. There are much better bi-colors available.

Last year, this was among the best-tasting of the cultivars I grew. It produced large (over one pound) beefsteak-style tomatoes, on a very typical-looking vine.

The real Mister Stripey is yellow with vague red stripes. The Bonnie Plants version is sold with a ridiculously computer-altered picture of the fruit with obvious red lightning bolts going down the side...don't be disappointed that the real thing is more subtle.

Also note, as has been said already, that the Tigerella cultivar, a small (4 oz) globe tomato that's red with yellow stripes, is sometimes errantly called Mister Stripey. Tigerella produces a decent amount of fruit, of perhaps average flavor.

At first i thought my stripey was going to let me down. All my other tomatoes were doing great but the flowers were just drying up and falling off of mr stripey. Don't give up on your plant too early. Mister stripey finally started produceing and hasn't quit yet. Great tomato.

hey now,

We got a late start on the garden this year so we were forced to go the Lowe's route.We picked up a pair of these plants among a few others. Planted in early May these plants are just now(mid- August) starting to decently produce. Needless to say that are very slow to fruit. Not sure if this is a growing enviroment issue or just the plants.Most of the early fruit never developed "stripes" but maintained a bright orange color. This may be the issue with some folks looking for stripes and waiting too long to pick, thus leading to rotting and/or unusable fruit. . Skins are on the softside but I've experienced no real cracking concern. Flavor of the fruit is very very fruity. Almost citrus or orange tasting.Plants are also starting to show a bit of blight. Not a real impressive grower but the unique tasting fruit will make me give this one another shot.

I'm growing a Mr. Stripey plant for the first time this year, and all season (until now) I've thought that I WOULDN'T plant that variety again. Now I've changed my mind.

The plant is very ungainly, with small curled up leaves that looks as if it has aphids or needs water. It's real indeterminate, rangy, and needs a lot of tying up (I have it on a wire fence). It's the tallest tomato plant in my garden, about 7' high.

It's a very late variety, I've had only 3 ripe tomatoes 90 days after transplanting - one of them weighed 3 lbs. The tomatoes are huge and misshapen, thin-skinned, and tend to crack. BUT the plant is now, finally, loaded with green tomatoes in late summer.

And the flavor of the ripe ones is incredible. These are really, really good, and for that reason alone I'll plant a Mr. Stripey in my garden again next year.

I bought my Mr. Stripey from Lowes and it was raised by Bonnie Plants. A very prolific plant with delicious beefsteaks. Loved the color and the stripes. The taste was sweet and juicy with very thin skin. A winner in my garden.

I was very surprised to see the negative comments on this one. Mr. Stripey is one of my favorites for flavor. Normally I do not like a sweet tomato but this one is great. I did have one year where there were few fruit but I always attributed it to the weather that year. The only negative things I can say about them are they bruise easily due to their thin skin and they are prone to the blight that we get here in Kentucky.

This plant was a poor producer for me. It was mushy did not have a great flavor.

I have grown the large open pollinated bi-color beefsteak widely disributed by Bonnie Plant Farm in the southeast. The vine is relatively rigorous. It will grow and set fruit in this climate although the yeilds are minimal. The fruit has very thin skin and cracks excessively. It also tends to misshapen fruit which combined with thin skin allows it to be attacked by numerous pests. The flesh is very soft, so that if one succeeds in getting a usable ripe tomato and waits until the next day to eat it, it will be mush. Friends tell that it does better in a cooler climate.

I picked up the hybrid, I think. I have one plant that has huge, beefsteaks on it. The other has medium sized fruit...but I have gotten 5 tomatoes off this one. They are not fit to eat. They are soft, but not over ripe. They are yellow and pink. I cut them in half to see why and they are 90% seeds and gel!
Must be the plant, not the growing conditions. The plant with the meaty befsteaks is right next to it.
Going to try the beefsteak type today. They seem firm, but very mottled, not really striped.

This is 'Mr. Stripey', the large, bi-color (yellow/red), lobed, beefsteak tomato. It is sometimes confused with a smaller tomato that is generally called 'Tigerella', but sometimes also called 'Mr. Stripey'. The other (Tigerella) tomato is round, quite small in size, and has a tangy flavor ( http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/54808 )

This tomato is generally very large with prominent lobes and has a much milder flavor than 'Tigerella'.

If you purchased your 'Mr. Stripey' from a nursery or from seed, this beefsteak tomato is probably what you have.