Pandora's Box
 

Last summer one of my breeding lines generated a unique segregant that really got my attention. Orange and striped on the outside, and bright lime green inside. Working name is Pandora's Box.

Whoa that looks amazing. Lemme know if you ever want somebody to grow it!!!

Really cool color combination.

How was the flavor?

[QUOTE=Raffles;244902]How was the flavor?[/QUOTE]

Taste was very good. The only negative, and it's an important one here in MN, is that this plant was very late. I'm hoping I can find segregants in the next generation that are stable for the color combo and with earlier fruit.

Could the lateness be partly the blame of the cool crummy weather we had last "summer" ??

I know here in Wi, we didn't really have a spring and summer didn't get here til about mid to late July.

Maybe with a normal summer it will be more of a normal ripe time.

Carol

[QUOTE=Wi-sunflower;244914]Could the lateness be partly the blame of the cool crummy weather we had last "summer" ??

I know here in Wi, we didn't really have a spring and summer didn't get here til about mid to late July.

Maybe with a normal summer it will be more of a normal ripe time.

Carol[/QUOTE]

Yep, not an ideal year. To complicate comparisons in earliness, a late spring hail storm took off the growing points on half my plants. KBX was one of the parents and is pretty late here, so that's partly why I assumed the worst.

i volunteer to try them out down here where the summer is 6 months long!

Very nice id love to give it a try

ill contact you

S

Was it productive once it got going?

That's a lot of recessive genes going on there. Good catch.

Remind mind me Mark, what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?;)

[QUOTE=carolyn137;245034]Remind mind me Mark, what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?;)[/QUOTE]

In the myth, the opening of Pandora's Box introduced evil into the world. My intent was to capture the notion that you can't tell a book by it's cover - or the inside of a tomato from the outside.

Carolyn - you've got me second guessing myself on the name. I'll let this simmer for a while, it won't be stable for a couple of years.

Frogsleap - is there already a tomato named Surprise!?

[QUOTE=frogsleap farm;245047]Carolyn - you've got me second guessing myself on the name. I'll let this simmer for a while, it won't be stable for a couple of years.[/QUOTE]

Maybe I'm showing my age but since it isn't really a true red as much as it looks like one, how about "Fellow Traveler"?

[QUOTE=carolyn137;245034]what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?;)[/QUOTE]

The comments I could make...but I won't

Let me know if you don't use that name. I think I might have a new tomato that would be more fitting of the name. :))

[QUOTE=doublehelix;245071]The comments I could make...but I won't

Let me know if you don't use that name. I think I might have a new tomato that would be more fitting of the name. :))[/QUOTE]

I think I'll keep the working name Pandora's Box. I like the box full of surprises metaphor, though in this case the surprises are good, not evil.

Very nice lookin mater there Frog, Glad to hear the taste is there also.

[QUOTE=frogsleap farm;246061]I think I'll keep the working name Pandora's Box. I like the box full of surprises metaphor, though in this case the surprises are good, not evil.[/QUOTE]

Nothing wrong with changing the outcome of the myth of evil to good coming out of Pandora's Box.

Why just last week I was able to solve the mythical conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg.;)

[QUOTE=carolyn137;246079]Nothing wrong with changing the outcome of the myth of evil to good coming out of Pandora's Box.

Why just last week I was able to solve the mythical conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg.;)[/QUOTE]

and the answer is ...

[QUOTE=frogsleap farm;246233]and the answer is ...[/QUOTE]

I thought I had the answer Mark when I was cooking two over light to go with the hash and watching those eggs cook, but upon thinking it over again I guess I'd better think it over again.;)

what's wrong with an evil tomato? havent you seen the movie?

Everyone knows the egg came first since all chickens are hybrids :shock:

Wait, I said that wrong. The egg came first because the first chicken was a hybrid and all subsquent hatchlings are unstable :dizzy:

Oh wait, I think I'm still wrong :?:

According to the physicists the erg came first.

The way I heard it, the rooster came first......

Now you must remember that after Pandora let out all the bad stuff, there was one thing still left in the box right? It was HOPE.

just call it Pandora. That is a fantastic tomato name.

DarJones

Just don't keep the lid on the box!

Beautiful tomato Mark. Really enjoy the pictures of this (and other tomatoes) posted to your blog. If you ever need a volunteer or it becomes available down the road please reach out. Amazing cross. Tomato gods were smiling that day!

Michael

[QUOTE=Raffles;246790]According to the physicists the erg came first.[/QUOTE]
but I prefer to dyne and move.:)