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Post by tomc on Apr 18, 2010 21:44:58 GMT -5
Snow White is a smaller indeterminate tomato-leaf very pale yellow cherry tomato. Taste is good. Not strongly sweet or citrus. (I doubt if they'll hire me for wine tasting) though it does have hints of each.
A visually atractive fruit on a vine well sized for home gardening.
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Post by tomc on Apr 12, 2010 17:35:40 GMT -5
I've grown black cherry twice. It is edible. it is not on my grow list.
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Post by tomc on Apr 9, 2010 9:22:24 GMT -5
Violets, and 4 O'Clocks, are rather the "Che Guevera" of flower world. They disburse seed by use of an exploding seed pod.
Those are nice English violets, an' I do not doubt they could've gotten there by volunteer, but their very civil, and not a bit wild. ;D
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Post by tomc on Mar 22, 2010 21:32:51 GMT -5
I have grown out Lucky cross and am watching new seedlings erupt out of germinating pans as I write. Its been a longish layover since my last grow out ('06).
As my feeble recollection remembers it Lucky Cross is the bigger of the two cousins I've tried. Little lucky is an even smaller fruited reduced internode length semi-determinate bi-color tomato. Oh, they have potato-leaves as I recall.
Fruit taste is good. Where and when this tomato got up and hunted for me was when fruit had a true "flame" pattern (which it does only part of the time :-( ) On those years I can sell as many tomatoes as it'll produce. On off years it has yellow shoulders fading into a red blossom end. Good but a lot less WOW factor.
On this fan-boys applause meter I'd give it a 7 or 8 out of 10.
I am very prone to growing out a new cultivar more than once. A single shot sometimes misses.
This IS a smaller plant and has semi determinate habit. So if you want a long picking season this model does not provide. On a per-plant basis if yield to can for a growing family is the engine that drives your garden try something else.
If a successful tomato for your garden is a medley of good taste-perfume and handsomeness, this cultivar succeeds IMO.
I could'a sold four times as many tomatoes as I got the last year it made good "flame" bi-color stripes.
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Post by tomc on Mar 19, 2010 21:59:05 GMT -5
And I've saved seed from tomatoes I didn't like (for seed bankers) on the premis that 'just cause I didn't like it, no one else will either'. I'm sure that aint so.
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Post by tomc on Mar 19, 2010 9:21:20 GMT -5
Black from Tula performs well enough, ie makes a enough fruit to be worth while.
Taste and apearance is no more than a six. ie better'n a store tomato. has cracking problems and a blotchy hide.
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Post by tomc on Mar 17, 2010 22:00:46 GMT -5
Mine went into germination pans yesterday.
Last year was a bust (late blight), so this year I'm being very conservative.
Cherokee Chocolate ( brown oblate), Cows Tit (cows horn paste), Esthers (yellow cherry), German Red (oblate), Lucky Cross (stripe slicer), Preacher (pink cherry), Stupice ( red cherry), Tibet Appel ( pink oblate).
Lets see if Fortuna will be good to me this year.
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Post by tomc on Mar 10, 2010 23:29:06 GMT -5
Never tell spud any secrets. here in is proof that the fellow has a photgraphic memory
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Post by tomc on Mar 6, 2010 23:21:33 GMT -5
Um a cherry tomato may set several hundred fruit. A good slicer might produce near to a hundred fruit. A good beefstake will be superior if it makes three dozen fruit. A good oxheart might make as few as ten fruit.
Now all that said, the yummiest of oxhearts make a fruit that (to me) makes up for its lack with quality..
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Post by tomc on Mar 6, 2010 23:15:57 GMT -5
I never put seed into cells, only sprouted seedlings.
Seeds start out in 5" daffodil pans
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Post by tomc on Mar 4, 2010 23:19:57 GMT -5
Me?
Just a couple apples, a couple plums (er stone fruit) pecans walnuts and hazelnuts
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Post by tomc on Mar 3, 2010 23:46:56 GMT -5
I *think* I fixed the gender thingy, nope. I'm not in drag
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Post by tomc on Mar 3, 2010 23:41:54 GMT -5
Yes, you can cull female plants. I'll not bother to do that. The "startling" and "massive" increase in yeild from all-male supermale plants is vastly over rated. *If* any increase exists at all.
I likes my mary Washingtons and I collect seed against my inevitable 'next' bed, or relocation.
Supermale's aren't GMO's but the puffery is about the same.
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Post by tomc on Feb 26, 2010 23:13:57 GMT -5
About a dozen years ago Catharine Vinson ran a blind trial of OP tomatoes on YKW. That got me back into growing a lot more tomatoes than I might've otherwise done.
The bulk of tomato seed I save goes back out via people like Janet Abramson, Trudi Davidoff, and Robin Tavares.
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Post by tomc on Feb 26, 2010 11:13:32 GMT -5
No, My name is still Tom Cagle. Your registration robot alows NO spaces or capitol letters. Or at least so I beleive after trying about sixty (yes I said sixty) times.
So much for being ADA complaint...
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