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Boutique Tomatoes · August 2, 2012

I'd need to find a variety that ripened whole trusses at once, or that had better hang time for ripe ones. With the Hawaiian Red Currants they seem to ripen one or two on a truss at a time and when they get to a certain point they just fall off.

If I could find a variety like that it could work, I remember when I was working in garde manger for an expensive hotel we would get specialty things packed in individual layers in shallow boxes like that all the time.

I really never expected the reaction they got. I was excited about the blues thinking about how different they look. The currants were just a tiny PIA that my daughter liked but they weren't anything that really excited me. Goes to show me that I shouldn't try to guess the market...

August 2, 2012	#10
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	I'd need to find a variety that ripened whole trusses at once, or that had better hang time for ripe ones. With the Hawaiian Red Currants they seem to ripen one or two on a truss at a time and when they get to a certain point they just fall off. If I could find a variety like that it could work, I remember when I was working in garde manger for an expensive hotel we would get specialty things packed in individual layers in shallow boxes like that all the time. I really never expected the reaction they got. I was excited about the blues thinking about how different they look. The currants were just a tiny PIA that my daughter liked but they weren't anything that really excited me. Goes to show me that I shouldn't try to guess the market...