OT: Indigo Rose

[FMD]

These are the prettiest tomatoes I've ever seen...and they aren't even ripe yet.

[JD]

Yes Frank. They are beautiful tomatoes.
Wait until the lower body start to turn red...Here it is a beacon that calls all mockingbirds.

[Hershell]

Nice tomatoes. Very unusual

[Kelby]

Nice, I just planted Indigo Apple.

[jkuo]

We got some through our co-op before. They were definitely cool looking. I preferred the taste of other varieties though. The regular red, yellow, and orange varieties tasted more tomato-ey to me.

[Gr8Figs]

I never met a tomato that I didn't like until I grew an Indigo Rose in 2014. None of mine had any flavor at all.

Very disappointing,considering their colorful skin.

I hope your IR tomatoes turn out better.

[FMD]

What a shame! It is more of an ornamental, then Good thing I only have one plant.

[smatthew]

I grew them last year, and found they were tasty, but took forever to ripen. If there's green anywhere on the fruit - leave it on the vine.

[ako1974]

I agree with many of the above comments - I grew them last year and they were virtually flavorless. Productive, yes. Interesting. Supposedly higher in certain healthy stuff. But no flavor.

[Harborseal]

You do have to leave them on the vine at least 3 days after they look fully ripe. Which means critter protection. I'm growing them this year also.

[cis4elk]

I was going to try them this year, but after reading all the disapointing reviews last fall and winter I decided not to. I decided to give Carbon another try instead. I tried Carbon a few years ago and it wasn't bad, but it was in a year that my tomato plants were rotated to next to the fence and didn't get as much sun from all angles; so flavor was down on all varieties.

[chefmon]

These are the prettiest tomatoes I've ever seen...and they aren't even ripe yet.

I have the indigo apple,cherry and rose going and the amber cherry too.The more sun the fruit gets the better the color.They don't have the best taste but go great in a salad with other toms to balence all out.

[Gr8Figs]

I sure wanted them to taste good.

I tried them at different levels of ripeness.IMO they were just edible if I used salt,black pepper,and hot pepper vinegar on them.

I think that I finally withheld it's water ration once it was clear that it was a dud in the taste category.