I had a Black Brandywine a few years ago that smelled like a sweaty horse. From reading other posts about that variety, I get the feeling there are more than one Black Brandywine out there.
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There certainly is/are,more than one BB out there,I'll try to explain,without fetching Tania links since several of us knew about this before she did.
Lind at TGS was having seed production done at Seeds by Design in CA,there was a cross pollination between a black she had not sent and I think Brandywine,and I don't think the other parent was known.
I fetched Tania's thread since I wondered if she knew the other parent,and she didn't.
http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...,_Regular_Leaf
Linda offered it in her catalog and online but it turned out to be not stable,and I remember Craig L saying one kind of fruits were a bag of seeds,and we agreed,the other fruits looked something like Black From Tula.
Linda ASAP pulled it from her offers,but some already had it and who knows what they did with it,passing what along in seed swaps,,seed offers,etc.
Then along came what was called True Black Brandywine,created by Will Weaver,and if you look in the legacy Forum you'll see a somewhat scathing review of that,as well as some like Tom Wagner,saying it was possible.
Tania's page for it
http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...ack_Brandywine
But if you want the comments please go to the Legacy Forum and read.
So yes,who knows by now how many different versions are out there,no way to know.Introduce something unstable, and there you go.
Carolyn