Hands-down my favorite white tomato and also in my top 3 of all time! High praise considering I've grown well over 100 varieties :-) Lar...Read Morege fruit that are closer to a pale buttery yellow - mine get a small pink blush at the blossom end. Sweet, fruity, almost honeydew-like flavor without being too seedy or watery - just a delight! It does crack sometimes and if you live in a very sunny locale you will need to be careful of sunscald, but it is well worth the space in your garden.
As an aside, if you get a significant heat wave (like 90-100F+) for long enough or are generally prone to high temps in your area, I HAVE had blossom drop with this one where it didn't set fruit until after the heat wave ended. This was an extraordinary circumstance, however - I've be growing this one religiously for at least the last 7 or 8 years and there was only 1 year where I encountered this problem.
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Pro- This tomato grows impressive, disease-resistent plants, with equally large, impressive, cream or pale yellow beefsteak tomatoes. I ...Read Moreplanted in my 'worst' position for growing, as I'd filled the garden with other varieties first, but it thrived there. I can only imagine what it would do in a good location.
Con- I was disappointed in the flavor- not as sweet or fruity as others' reviews suggest, and so I cannot recommend as a delicious slicer, tho it looks beautiful!
I am making sauce from them now, and if the sauce is tasty, will grow again next year, if only because of their ease and fun to grow and abundant production amounts.
Every year I try to plant varieties that I have never tried before. I bought this plant (had to buy 4 in a pack) for curiosity and glad ...Read Morethat I did! All 4 plants are loaded with tomatoes and at the moment about 6 feet tall and having to re-stake! The taste is one of the best our family has eaten. Next year this tomato will have a place in our garden.
This tomato looks and tastes wonderful, better tasting than other yellow beefsteaks I have grown. (By better tasting I mean sweeter and m...Read Moreore intensely flavoured than the often bland yellows) But I only managed to harvest about 7 lovely tomatoes off my 9 plants, plus a number of strange looking smallish or BER infected fruit. Cracking and catfacing was minimal. Some fruits turned deep yellow, a few stayed pale, and on a others I noticed a beautiful pinkish blush on the blossom end.
Some of the plants were small and sickly looking and didnt even set fruit at all. Of the 23 varieties I grew this year, the performance of GW was the poorest by far. Its saving grace was the quality of the few "good" fruit I did get. It was my first time growing this variety, so I will give it another chance next season.
As far as flavor is concerned I prefer a good red, black, or purple Tomato with a stout earthy flavor. Many people who have sampled my To...Read Morematoes absolutely love Great White.
The appearance is way above average, creamy yellow/off white. Some, but not all of mine have a pink blush at the blossom end like a Viva Lindsey's Kentucky Heirloom. I have grown only 8 or 10 other varieties that I would rank above Great White on the appearance scale.
Production here in Southern Indiana is a little above average for a large slicing variety. Great White has a permanent spot in my Tomato line-up.
Englishtown, NJ (Zone 6b) | August 2005 | positive
I love these. They will be a permanent addition to my Tomato Garden. They are not really white but a beautiful deep pale yellow (see pi...Read Morecture) when ripe. I like a more mild tomato (Roma are my favorite to give you an idea) but these are delicious in a salad giving a more acidic genuine tomato taste while still being mild. Yield for me has been only fair but I got hit with some curley top virus so its hard to judge how much yields are off norm.
This is a large pale yellow beefsteak. It grows a huge vine competitive with the Brandywines (Pink and Yellow). Flavor is sweet but mild,...Read More very good unless you want bite in a tomato. Fruit is smoother with less twisting and cracking than Ponderosas. It isn't white but few are. It grows well here in middle Georgia where many will not produce at all.
Hands-down my favorite white tomato and also in my top 3 of all time! High praise considering I've grown well over 100 varieties :-) Lar...Read More
I grow 'Great White' this year and I am satisfied with the results, as I described on my blog, please visit: ...Read More
Pro- This tomato grows impressive, disease-resistent plants, with equally large, impressive, cream or pale yellow beefsteak tomatoes. I ...Read More
have gotten some pretty big fruits from this plant.
although it tends to get blossom end rot easier than most types ive tried.
Every year I try to plant varieties that I have never tried before. I bought this plant (had to buy 4 in a pack) for curiosity and glad ...Read More
This tomato looks and tastes wonderful, better tasting than other yellow beefsteaks I have grown. (By better tasting I mean sweeter and m...Read More
As far as flavor is concerned I prefer a good red, black, or purple Tomato with a stout earthy flavor. Many people who have sampled my To...Read More
I love these. They will be a permanent addition to my Tomato Garden. They are not really white but a beautiful deep pale yellow (see pi...Read More
This is a large pale yellow beefsteak. It grows a huge vine competitive with the Brandywines (Pink and Yellow). Flavor is sweet but mild,...Read More