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Post by tomc on Sept 22, 2010 16:17:21 GMT -5
I've grown out what was supposed to be Opalka (five or six times), whatever it was I grew it darned fer sure was not a cows-horn shaped paste. If you can get the right cultivar Opalka might give CT a run for its money.
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Post by tomc on Sept 19, 2010 14:34:45 GMT -5
If you have the space and facility of a germinating space, why not give it a trial and report back?
My cold feame space (when I had it) was always overshadowed by squash vines of one kind or another when a second grow out might've been possible.
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Post by tomc on Sept 19, 2010 7:54:44 GMT -5
Thanks Darth, Cows Tit makes a cows-horn shaped red fruit on a (mostly) tomato-leaf indeterminate plant. It is good enough to eat fresh, and is meaty enough to be suitable for cooked tomato product. Its leaf shape is v-e-r-y long, I have described it as lanceolate. The drooping nature of this leaf shape makes it easy (for me at least) to over water. I advise to check soil for moisture levels, and to not water based on what the plant looks like.
I expect a good plant breeder can say why this shape accession pops up every so often, This cultivar was collected by Keith Mueller while touring tomato feilds (as a buyer perhaps?) in 2004-5. The plants distict shape made it stand out in a feild. The grower when asked named it "a cows tit tomato". Hence its colorful name.
There are other very similar accessions, I was able to grow CT side by side with Gilbertie, CT out produced Gilbertie in three trials running.
This is a superior tomato and has reliably made crops every year save 2009. '09 was the year that potato blight wiped out most of the tomato crop in the northeast.
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Post by tomc on Sept 14, 2010 12:48:31 GMT -5
Darth, First I am going to resettle this fall nearer my eldest. Next, persuade a doctor I'm not dieing. Then, get a new garden back up and opened; which will subsume, that I can get the eight or ten tomato cultivars I already think are truely superior back into collection for some seed banks I'm fond of..
Then, and only then, can I start rummaging around for new trials.
This puts "new stuph" back on my grow-list mebee spring of '12.
Gettin' old sucks
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Post by tomc on Sept 14, 2010 6:32:05 GMT -5
Darth the tomato in the left is pretty clearly oblate. Now I know your fond of heart shapes. To a degree I share your fondness, b-u-t if ya can't find more to say about this one, it might get taken as being panned...
I'm just saying
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Post by tomc on Sept 6, 2010 8:48:04 GMT -5
You may be getting a second dividend from your compost tea, of baby frogs.
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Post by tomc on Sept 5, 2010 14:30:12 GMT -5
Paw paw grows fine in a wide variety of soils. It does best if protected from too much direct sun as a sapling. A couple hours in morning or afternoon is plenty.
If you are growing seedlings in pots shake out and replace a good portion of last years soil-mix to keep gas exchange high.
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Post by tomc on Sept 5, 2010 4:55:21 GMT -5
I don't guess that I have seen a passion vine. I know May Pops flowers look like passion flowers.. are they the same thing? I would love some seeds. Maypop is a common name for a passiflora family plant. It-they could easily be the same one. IE maypop = passion flower.
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Post by tomc on Sept 5, 2010 4:49:56 GMT -5
Just please don't freeze the seed you plan to pass on. Drying is also not a good thing for this seed. Add a few drops of water to some sand, add seeds and refridgerate.
If not dried or frozen this seed will slumber nicely till spring warmth makes it germinate in pand or seedling beds.
I have had about the same germination rate with and without scarifying seed coat,
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Post by tomc on Sept 4, 2010 6:46:12 GMT -5
Tomatoes are ripening nicely, I've been eating al Icare to for more than 4 weeks. Curcurbits are passing away-cuke done, summer squash and zucc's ditto. The kast planted of a main crop was Whipple's White a sweet corn witch has erupting silks, so I think it will bear this year..
Not bad for an adlibed garden inna community garden.
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Post by tomc on Sept 3, 2010 15:51:54 GMT -5
PV, you mention regional as well as comparisons based on weather conditions. Any forerunner in the wet and rainy conditions the Northeast has been plagued with in 2009 and again, in 2010?? As far as cold and wet northeast, I think we're strewed. I've not found one.
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Post by tomc on Sept 1, 2010 6:20:33 GMT -5
The fruits are small, ugly colored things. And the taste is lousy. Could it be someone goofed on the seeds that I got? It was tart, and then it was sour... yuck, and the fruits were small, not even standard sized, but not quite a cherry. Someone posted a photo linked to this thread. If yours did not look at least something like the oblate one pounders, then maybe you were growing out not true-to-type seed irregardless of its origins.
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Post by tomc on Aug 31, 2010 9:48:31 GMT -5
Tslagi purple is an excelent tomato for any OP tomato grower to at least trial. As Darth suggests this cultivar is one you'll keep coming back to.
Much as I like eating this tomato it IS an unesthetic color. Please try to put your eyes in neutral untill after you have eaten as least a couple.
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Post by tomc on Aug 18, 2010 18:55:34 GMT -5
The edit button is called the "modify" button in the upper right of your post boxes. It IS on this post not on most others
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Post by tomc on Aug 16, 2010 7:09:27 GMT -5
JT, at present there is not an "edit button" in the send messages section. we should have one !! Spud, do you mean the "modify" button down there? ----> On my screen at the bottom right corner (in microscopic font size) is-are "reply", "send topic to a friend", and "print". I don't see an "edit, or modify" tab.
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