Dwarf Shadow Boxing from Tom Wagner

[Good Mind Seeds]

this is the earliest tomato i have ever grown. it is also the first anthocyanin striped tomato i have ever grown. it is finally the first dwarf i have ever grown and here are its maturing fruits:



and the plant:



next year i will use less than 5 gallons for them. perhaps plant multiple plants in 3 gallon pots. cant wait to taste it and get the seeds put away.

[Good Mind Seeds]

ripe fruits off this one are some of the most beautiful freaks i have ever grown.

[lored]

How do they taste?

LoreD

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tasted one of the indeterminate ones today. it is a good tomato flavor overlaid with the qualities of the OSU. I sense a hint of oxalic acid like in a premature blueberry, perhaps it is linked to the anthocyanin synthesis. really i think the main issue is that more diverse molecules are produced and some of them are not what we want in a tomato for instance the oxalic acid, but others are desired, for instance the anthocyanin. i might even learn to appreciate this tart new flavor. im planting alot of these next year. (ps: these are red on the inside.)

[lored]

I liked the tart taste of Silvery Fir Tree; the tart taste seemed to have a stronger tomato taste than the sweeter varieties. My grandmother would eat tomatoes with sugar sprinkled on it because they were tart and a friend of mine tried to make a family recipe for spaghetti sauce that had sugar. She was really disappointed because it was so sweet that the sauce was inedible. I told her that many of the traditional varieties were very tart and were sweetened when cooked or eaten raw.

LoreD

[Good Mind Seeds]

the more ripe fruits off of the dwarf plant were much much sweeter. there would be no need to salt or sugar these babies.

[Good Mind Seeds]

these ones tasted pretty good.