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Old May 14, 2013   #50
Boutique Tomatoes
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Risking thread jacking, I think I read somewhere that you were trying Negate this year Wendy? I've been amazed at how vigorous the seedlings are, this one is fairly representative of mine from TPS:



They're considerably larger than any of the other TPS lines I have started and are already sending up new stems while still in the 2 ˝ inch pots. High hopes for a nice blue/black out of these... Most of the others I have from TPS are looking for red flesh. I'd love to find a good orange flesh line as well, but Tom doesn't have anything available and Charles Brown didn't respond when I tried contacting him.

This kind of experiementation is how the crops were originally developed from their wild ancestors. The commonly grown varieties are a tiny sliver of the genetic pool out there and for some growers it's fun to connect with history this way. And who knows, you might just come up with something great!

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