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Post by dld on Feb 12, 2010 15:52:02 GMT -5
Fess up my friend, I know you have grown loads of PL's sooo... Which is your favorite??
Does anyone else have a favorite PL they want to mention?
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Post by sorellina on Feb 12, 2010 16:14:21 GMT -5
Ciao Rich-
Well, I have 3, I can have 3, right? Marianna's Peace, Brandywine Sudduth, and Lucky Cross.
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 12, 2010 18:02:22 GMT -5
Ummmmmm....LUCKY CROSS!
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Post by spudleafwillie on Feb 12, 2010 21:27:26 GMT -5
Rich,
After long and serious thought on my fave PL:
Has to be my Throwback Potato Leaf Plum, a genetic throwback in the F16 generation of fruit color. It happened in the F16 growout of long stabilized Roughwood Golden Plum, seed that i received from William Woys Weaver in the F9.
Until the F16 RGP had always thrown gold colored, double heart shaped fruits. Let me back up a bit and say the parents of RGP were San Marinzo, a red RL paste variety and Yellow Brandywine, a yellow PL beefsteak.
In a planting of 6 F16 RGP plants, was one PL plant with red plum shaped fruits and the other 5 plants were RGP PLs with normal golden fruits. I saved seeds from The red fruits and it grew true for 2 more generations.
It was a genetic throwback to to the red fruit color of one of its grandparents, San Marinzo but in PL leaf form. That red fruit gene was somehow carried through 7 generations of gold colored fruit and then expressed in the F16 grow out, There was no San Marinzo plants grown within a 10 mile radius of my garden or any other red paste tomatoes, Therefore the only explanation for the red plum shaped fruit on a PL plant was a genetic mutation, a rare occurrence in tomato growing.
It is the only genetic mutation in PL's i have ever seen in growing maters for over 50 years.
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Post by timothyt on Feb 13, 2010 5:57:36 GMT -5
Hey Rich, I have to say I have a rough time with only naming one favorite of anything, but especially tomatoes! There are just so many "good ens" out there and every growing season seems tweak the flavor one way or the other. But, if forced  I'd have to say Pruden's Purple for taste. But last season PapaVic turned me on to Spud's Spudakee and I was most impressed with productivity,fruit quality, taste, and at least for me it was far more disease tolerant than CP. This year I'll be adding KBX, Vorlon, and Lucky Cross to the mix. T |
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Post by camochef on Feb 17, 2010 11:34:02 GMT -5
Richard,
I'd have to admit that Spudakee was a great tomato for me last year, outperforming Cherokee purple 10 fold. Taste was much superior! But in all fairness it was planted much later than my Cherokee Purples and the weather was kinder to all my later planted tomatoes.
I favor Potato-leafed tomatoes over regular leafed and that is one of my considerations in my selection process. But to pick one as a favorite I would have to go with what many compare other tomatoes to, and that would be Brandywines. and out of all the different Brandywines and Brandywine crosses that I've grown, and I have spent years seeking them out and growing them, Cowlick's Brandywine and Brandywine-Glicks have been my favorites year after year, both in taste and production.
Most say that Brandywine-Sudduth's is the best of the Brandywines but I find the first two much superior in production, and somewhat superior in taste.
There have been others like Barlow Jap and some of my Amazon Chocolates that are real standouts too, but I'd have to go with ones that have been grown in my gardens year after year and have proven themselves to be extra special!
Camo
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Post by PVP on Feb 17, 2010 17:03:17 GMT -5
Big Cheef and Spudakee are #1 and #2 for me. Daniels is a great PL variety too. Looking forward to Parker Family Red this summer.
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Post by dld on Feb 17, 2010 17:24:24 GMT -5
Big Cheef and Spudakee are #1 and #2 for me. Daniels is a great PL variety too. Looking forward to Parker Family Red this summer. Me too!! |
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Post by tomstrees on May 24, 2010 14:51:41 GMT -5
Big Cheef and Spudakee are #1 and #2 for me. Daniels is a great PL variety too. Looking forward to Parker Family Red this summer. Spudakee is top notch ~> best ever PL for me |
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Post by amideutch on May 26, 2010 12:26:33 GMT -5
Spudakee
BFT PL from TT which came from Spud which is probably Spudatula.
Cowlicks Pink Brandywine
Toedebusch Pink
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Post by tomstrees on May 26, 2010 15:59:36 GMT -5
Spudakee BFT PL from TT which came from Spud which is probably Spudatula. Cowlicks Pink Brandywine Toedebusch Pink yup - Spudtula source is B - was tough for a while to get em to germ - my last planting = success! |
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Post by jcm05 on May 27, 2010 6:16:58 GMT -5
I sowed a bunch of Spudatulas this year. Bout half of them came up RL which I thinned. Will be growing the two strongest PLs of the bunch this year.
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Post by tomstrees on May 27, 2010 8:47:16 GMT -5
I sowed a bunch of Spudatulas this year. Bout half of them came up RL which I thinned. Will be growing the two strongest PLs of the bunch this year. come to think of it had same prob. but only went with the PL - Ami has PL - the RL came out Pink J ~> |
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Post by amideutch on May 30, 2010 12:54:52 GMT -5
Tom, I'm glad you did because it is one hell of a tomato. Come to think of it I got some seed for Aker's West Virginia PL and grew them out last year and it was a butt kicker. Ami
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Post by tomstrees on Jun 1, 2010 8:37:39 GMT -5
Tom, I'm glad you did because it is one hell of a tomato. Come to think of it I got some seed for Aker's West Virginia PL and grew them out last year and it was a butt kicker. Ami Akers was a BEAST of a plant for us - it even grew in a "less desirable" are of our patch and produced 100's and 100's of tomatoes with great flavor - what " F #" are you on ? 2 or 3 or  ~> Tom |
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I'd have to say Pruden's Purple for taste. 
