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A monster! Review by Unknown

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Flame is not only a monster tomato but the plant produces, produces, PRODUCES! even in our wet,cold summer this year it did not crack. Its a big, juicy, wonderful flavored tomato with sweetness and not much tart. I love this one sliced on a sandwich or in a salad. i do a lot of canning and Flame is wonderful in sauces and soups.
If you need to grow a big stripey--Flame is the one to grow!.

(Posted on 1/8/10)

Grow this one Review by Unknown

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These tomatoes are big in size, flavor and yield, not to mention beautiful to behold. I would grow them again and could easily forget all other striped tomatoes I have grown in the past (Beauty King; Copia)..

(Posted on 9/6/10)

Review by Unknown

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We really liked this tomato, my husband especially. Good flavor, LARGE tomatoes. My husband would take these to work for lunch daily last year, as the main course! Produced a LOT! Made great sauce with them too. They didn't make the repeat list this year, but only because I wanted to try some new things. I WOULD grow them again though. One of hubby's all time favorites..

(Posted on 5/17/10)

LOVE...LOVE...LOVE...ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.. Review by Sassysouthern

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My all time favorite tomato!!!! Love the multicolor of this tomato. Large fruit -that most of the time- grows as close to perfect as you can get in a tomato.
This low acid tomato looks just beautiful cut up on a plate. I don't know about cooking because we never get to cook any of these because we eat them all.
If a person has not tried this tomato-they really need to give it a try-their wonderful. .

(Posted on 12/1/10)

Great!! Review by Mike E.

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I grow this every year, even though a full-season tomato is a challenge in the Paciifc Northwest. I first grew it in 2003, along with 51 other varities. I grabbed one one morning as I was heading to work. When I got to work & tasted it, I couldn't believe the flavor and lost all focus on anything else. It's also beautiful & productive. So, I've planted it every year since then..

(Posted on 1/11/11)

Big beautiful tasty juicy chunk of happiness Review by Just an amateur

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It's true, these fruit get REAL big. I planted a bunch of these vines this year and spaced them six feet apart and that wasn't enough. We live in Northern California, it's just a tad WARM up here, and these vines have soared to seven to eight feet tall, and need at least that much room between them. These were some of the first tomatoes we harvested this year. The first one sliced along the polar? axis revealed a beautiful pattern of pinks, yellows, reds in a "flame" like pattern. My wife and I took a bite, and I swear this is true....I tasted bacon. Genius! A tomato with essence of bacon! Instantly, my wife was cooking bacon, and we made a celebratory BLT that I'm still thinking about 3 months later! These are monstrous tomatoes and equally prodigious vines, indeterminate and kind of unruly. I will probably plant more next year, just not a dozen or so. They provide great visual interest as well, a big, beautiful, tasty, juicy chunk of slightly bacon flavored happiness! .

(Posted on 9/8/11)

Agreed! One of the all-time striped greats! Review by Greenback

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Great flavor, beautiful and productive. Absolutely worth growing..

(Posted on 9/9/11)

Hillbilly is not the same as Flame Review by carolyn 137

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I Don't know who first added the aka of Flame to the variety Hillbilly, which was done quite recently, but it's not correct. I'll try to be brief. When the Olympics were held in Los Angeles Renee Shepherd introduced a variety she called Olympic Flame which was just a selection that Patty Byzinski ( Sp?) at Seeds by Design had made from a prior gold/red variety, not named. The Olympic Comm told her she could not use the name Olympic, so she changed it to Old Flame. Then that got shortened to just Flame and seeds under all three names are still being offered and they're the same variety. I made the situation worse when I sent seeds of Jaune Flammee to Linda Sapp at TGS in FL for trial. I was in a hurry and left off the Jaune part so she listed it as Flamme, or Flame, I can't remember which. She then corrected it when I let her know and if she has space on that page she aka's it as Jaune Flammee. All to say that Flame is not an aka for the variety Hillbilly. I think it's a good one but there are others of the same type that I like better.

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(Posted on 11/19/11)

5a canadian garden Review by Tara

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Not as I thought...I grew old flame and hillbilly two years ago as two different varieties, and it seemed one was more yellow with red streaking and the second was more of a blush. This isn't streaking, it's blotchy and not as pretty, to be honest. This year I am growing both varieties again and skipping over this one. Though the taste was lovely and 'perfect', I prefer the visual of streaking rather than the mottling...as it gets really ripe the red takes over and the bicolouration becomes less obvious. Still convinced Old Flame and Hillbilly are two different varieties....

(Posted on 12/28/11)