A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Food Garden Forum Just trying to ID the species of these tomatoes

Can someone help me id the species of these tomatoes? My garden has beefsteaks, super beefsteaks (watery I guess), and many oblate sugary/tart syrupy that are real good. I would guess some Early Girls which are wrinkled oblate I guess. And I have globes but some have triangulated bottoms and rounder at the top. And I have heirlooms. Better Boy/Big Boy/Burpee's Big Boy which are beefsteaks. I don't really know except for a couple of the names over the years.

But I want to know the exact or approximate species.

I haven't a clue yet.

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I'm sorry. I don't know tomato types. I hope someone comes along who can help you.

It is going to be hard to give you an exact i.d. but I'd put my bet on 'Better Boy' for those tomatoes.

I was trying to find a photo of the Big Boy tomato to compare,

but I am thinking Sunny is right in her bet. I too think those Tomatoes are "Better Boy"

Thanks, I think what I need to start doing is to make a list of properties that can help narrow it down.

The tomatoes in my pic (other than the one with the triangulated bottom which is a different variety) have an oblate sphere shape - they are round but squashed top to bottom. But some tomatoes develop wrinkles due to lack of water so it's hard to tell. But there is a tendency for a very large number of tomatoes in my garden to be perfectly smooth, and they are oblate spheres but taste-wise, some are tart and sweet, others are watery. The watery ones are more likely Butpee's Big Boy (a beefsteak), but the tart ones more likely something else - perhaps Better Boy. I'll keep working on this - it's important. But the smaller tomato with a triangulated bottom is very uniform species - all same size and shape. So I wonder which species - I was going to say Early Girl but I don't think so. So where aer the Early Girl tomatoes - I'll have to keep working on this. I think I need to take my time answering this. Sorry if I take your time too.
Better Boy is definitely one you would get in a grocery store or a stand near a grocery store - your typical tomato. That makes it likely