Tomato 'Jaune Flammee'

The good: nice classic, strong tomato taste. Seems decently productive this year, which is surprising as the bush itself looks very unh...Read Moreappy. One definite plus to this tomato is it is still making fruit well into the hottest days of Summer. Most varieties stop making fruit in the hot months in my yard, or they get ugly. The flamme remains productive, with good looking fruit. The bush growing next to this one also has some kind of fungus that the flamme doesn't seem affected by.

The bad: I've tried growing this several times, and besides this year, the plant never survived long enough to make fruit. This year it fruited quite a bit, but the bush itself is really struggling. It is very stunted and appears half dead...yet somehow keeps making some nice tomatoes, so I have not dug it up.

The positives outweigh the negatives, so I give it a positive rating for now.

August 14, 2015, Atlanta, GA, Zone 7a
Last summer in 2014, I had the opportunity to work with a friend in his large garden and amo...Read Moreng a number of other things, we planted 84 tomatoes (7 each of 12 varieties--I don't know why it was 7 instead of 6 or 8) which included 8 heirlooms and 4 hybrids. With the tomatoes and other things that we were growing, we were quickly overwhelmed, sort of like a tsunami rolling over us, and our fertilization, watering, and cultivation were sketchy at best, all while weed grasses and wild morning glories were operating at peak efficiency. Despite all of the things that we did wrong, the Jaune Flamme tomato flourished, and was our best tasting tomato, as well as our healthiest, and most productive by far, and all of those things by a wide margin over our second most successful tomato. (For those of you who might be interested, Cherokee Purple was our second best tomato in those relatively poor conditions, and it was anywhere from baseball to softball size.) Because of our haphazard care, though, the Jaune Flamme did not reach advertised size, and all of them were around 1" in diameter. My friend died this past winter, so I did not have access to a large garden area this year (2015) and grew 2 Jaune Flamme plants in large pots. I lost the first wave of fruit from these tomatoes to blossom end rot, but adjusted my watering and the blossom end rot went away and my second wave of Jaune Flamme fruit was looking good--and as large as they are supposed to be (1.5" to 2" in diameter). Then, while still green, they all disappeared over a period of 2 or 3 days. I assume that squirrels, chipmunks and maybe an opossum got them, but I am confused because whatever got them, there were not any tomato pieces lying around. Anyway, the plant was growing well and about to produce a nice crop before they disappeared. Now, it is starting to put out new flowers, so maybe we still have a chance. In 2014, the Jaune Flamme produced heavily for us from mid June until the last week of September. So, based on what they did last year in 2014 under trying circumstances, and what they appeared to be about to do this year in 2015, I give this tomato an A+, so I will plant it again next year.

Gorgeous little (2-inch) tomatoes, our Jaune Flammées were deep orange with a deep pink blush in the center; I made a point of slicing t...Read Morehem to show off the color. These are very juicy. As for flavor, the first (earliest ripening) fruit was so bland I almost didn't pick any more, but that was misleading. Once this vine got started, the flavor was intense and fruity, exactly as I had been hoping for. It was very productive even though I planted it in one of the less desirable sections of my garden. It also showed some disease resistance. This one's worth repeating.

Plant did well even when other tomato plants didn't. Very productive. Fruit are quite lovely; no sign of cracking, blossom-end rot, or ...Read Moreother blemishing. Very tasty, too. Will plant this regularly.