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Old July 21, 2020   #6
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Originally Posted by Solanum315 View Post
I have grown Tanggula and like it a lot.

My description: From the Philippines by way of Canada. Documentation suggests it is a stabilized cross between Earliana and Harrow from around 1960. Medium sized plants with medium to heavy fruitset of orange-red beefsteaks that resist cracking and blemishes yet still have thin skins and soft flesh. I attribute this ability to the relatively small amount of gel in these fruits. Delicious flavor that is just slightly on the sweet side of balanced. Great slicer, only slightly juicier than most oxhearts. I never saw any fruit like this in Manila or the provinces so I would assume that this was an experimental cultivar that was most likely not well suited for mass agriculture in a tropical climate.
Thanks for the description, I had lost track of this thread and started searching for the variety and it brought me back here! I didn't get any germination from my attempts this year but I will make it a must for next year.
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