Tomato Show(Pic Heavy,Dial-up Users BEWARE!)

[jcm05]

Feb 25, 2010 1:35:59 GMT -5 nolika said:

jtcm05, are those Opalkas in the bottom?

Yes they are.

[darthslater]

Seed tomatoes

[sorellina]

Ciao Nolika-

Last year wasn't the best to judge tomatoes by their flavour. It was very wet and cool here so most were a bit watery. Gezahnthe was sweet for me, not assertive though, and semi-hollow so I used them as stuffing tomatoes and that worked out very well. For that use, they were very tasty. I didn't taste the Feuerwerks on their own, but those folks I gave some to really liked them. I'll grow them again to really be able to evaluate them fully.

Darth, that Voyage of yours looks like it should, like a bunch of cherry tomatoes all fused together. Munchkin grew it a few years ago and it's just about the ugliest thing I've ever seen in a tomato.

[darthslater]

Mixed

[darthslater]

Big Rainbow getting ready for the BLT.

[poypoyking]

Wow. Ok, so I have to know how many tomato plants you guys actually grow? I am maxing out my space at 22 plants this year, and am wondering how many tomatoes I am actually going to get.

[dld]

Spears Tennessee Green


Green Copia


Summer Cider

[PVP]

Brandywine x Neves Azorean Red (F2PLRed) x Bolseno, F1, 2009

[PVP]

Royal Hillbilly, 2009

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Out of about 16 seedlings for Golden Cherokee, three were potato leaf and obviously a mystery cross.
Here is the fruit from one of those off-type vines.

[PVP]

Here is an example of Purple Haze recombining as a large, flattened, pink tomato in the F3.
The seeds for this expression came from a smaller, deep pink/purple F2, and I got both RL and PL vines.

[PVP]

Typical Indian Stripe, not the "B" selection but just just general population.





The Indian Stripe "B" selection I am working on generally will throw larger and earlier
ripening fruit and continue to bear longer into the fall. I'll look to see if I have any pics.

[PVP]

Here are some starter packs of F2 seedlings where the original parents were Potato Leaf x Regular Leaf.
Count the segregation and recombination ratio PL:RL = 1:4.

[PVP]

A couple of years ago, Chapman Beefsteak was all the rage. I grew one that obviously was not true to type.
Every tomato on the vine was nippled or heartshaped from start of season to frost regardless of normal or abnormal climatic conditions.













Good thing about this off-type Chapman was that it set blossoms to fruit during extended hot daytime temps up to 98*F whether dry or humid.
I sent seeds to a fellow down in San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio, and he got same good results growing in straw bales.

[darthslater]

Here is an example of a normal voyage and a tomato, and what i believe to be a cross. The dark tomato came off of the only plant like it in a row of 50. Yeah JT, I know they are ugly.