The Great Crimson Crush Experiment - year two...

Another four pounds of Mountain Magic picked today.  Strangely, on some of the trusses, there can be just one tomato showing signs of blight, but every other fruit is totally unaffected. 
Definitely growing both Crimson Crush and Mountain Magic next year.  I'm even wondering if it's worth bothering with greenhouse tomatoes at all, other than perhaps to grow some green, stripey, or other different coloured or flavoured varieties, and grow the ordinary toms on the plot.

Big thumbs up to Crimson Crush from me. The blight has moved in now, but I secured 95% of the ripened crop before it hit.

Result!!

Just before 'The Great CC Experiment' squeaks and bangs to a timely halt, here is probably the last pic worth recording the fact that about 90% of the CC have bounded away like red gazelles, while their few bedfellows (watch it G!), 'Country Taste', 'Shirley' and 'Gardeners Delight', can be seen in total blighted disarray now!

As predicted, some of the original 23 plants succumbed to terminal 'catsface', one never even got going at all), so we finished up with 15 plants here on The Patch, 11 CC, one GD, one Shirley and 2 CT. The mutation took care of the failures, but the rest of them are still bombing away thank goodness!

Oddities include one with absolutely no seed inside, (a Jaffa), and they all forked once at precisely the same point, low down on the stem. I gave up trying to tame them and just let them loose, hence the rather haphazard frame and tying in! As a chum who is a regular recipient of anything we can give away prefers organic toms, this year, we bit the bullet and didn't use any chemicals on them at all, just comfrey, nettle and 6X liquid - 'Growsterpong'... It was also part of 'The Great Experiment' to try not to affect the effect of blight...

Everyone else on all the plots were blighted, including a friend very close by who planted 18 different varieties, some heritage and some standard.. I'd given him a CC from last year's crop, and guess what, his three CC plants are just romping away still, while the rest have just about died a death!

And also, Jaydig, his 'Mountain Magic' plant is still in perfect nick too, which proves your point as well! He's given me one for next year, and maybe we'll try all this again...