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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 5, 2012 17:47:27 GMT -5
there are many new varieties of tomato i am working on right now. they are heirloom by descent and selected for practical things, like flavor, disease resistance, production, and drought tolerance. here is one without a name, a purple PL selection from Chocolate x Caspian Pink F2. I have mailed out the F3s.    |
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 5, 2012 17:48:27 GMT -5
she was selected for flavor. blind taste test against brandywine, cherokee purple, and many others.
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 9, 2012 10:28:44 GMT -5
this is a white bicolor with rose blush i found in a packet of green zebra. im gonna see this year if any gs (green stripe gene) comes out. the PL plants are huge as are the fruit and they taste delightfully sweet and rich, not a wimpy flavored white. might be because it has some lycopene production on the blossom end. the lineage is a bit of a mystery and some friends and i are trying to solve some problems, like how could an F1 cross with green zeeb have clear skin? so is it an F2 mixed in or something unrelated? there is also some RL and PL leaf type seedlings coming from seeds saved from the same fruit off the plant. this should not be possible as the mother was PL, so it may be a partial cross from a bee or a backcrossing to green zeeb which often shows a PL so could be heterozygous and yield RL and PL F1s with a PL partner. regardless this beauty tastes great, keeps well, produces, and the plant is healthier than most:  |
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Post by woodwitch on Apr 9, 2012 19:56:16 GMT -5
Those must be the white bicolor you sent me. Pretty. They look alot like a tomato I have grown for years called Rose Beauty.
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Post by puttgirl on Apr 9, 2012 22:37:13 GMT -5
Those are pretty blossum ends!
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 13, 2012 7:49:39 GMT -5
Xitomatula (Hee-toe-mah-too-lah) is a cross of Purple Calabash and Black from Tula. There is high pigmentation and lovely fruit striping.   |
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Post by nuts on Apr 14, 2012 13:22:25 GMT -5
Wow!
This one looks really good.
How's the taste?
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 14, 2012 13:24:54 GMT -5
strong, sour, and still variable. this year im trying the F3s.
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Post by catfishtony on Apr 15, 2012 0:00:39 GMT -5
strong, sour, and still variable. this year im trying the F3s. i would like 20 seed of f3 phil. looks like a good cross. |
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Apr 15, 2012 8:35:45 GMT -5
some f4s this fall? sure thing.
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on May 22, 2012 5:19:22 GMT -5
this is a bee cross and what i assume to be Long Brandywine x Hog Heart F1  |
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on May 22, 2012 5:22:19 GMT -5
my first dwarf, an accident or happy surprise? this one is supposed to be shadow boxing from tom wagner. i hope it is blue and striped! shadow boxing is supposed to be a medium indeterminate from what i understand.  |
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on May 22, 2012 5:25:42 GMT -5
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on May 23, 2012 9:49:49 GMT -5
Cheesmanii tomato from the Galapagos islands. It forms yellow cherry tomatoes that have been bred by tortoises for millennia.  |
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lored
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Post by lored on May 23, 2012 11:58:21 GMT -5
Those are some very pretty plants, Phil.
LoreD
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