How is your bi-color grow out going? (Working name - Emma)

[Suze]

Don, I will be planting a couple of seedlings in the garden in the next day or two. They are both PL.

Thanks for the seeds! I sent you seeds for a couple of varieties I like a week or two ago, even though you didn't ask for anything in return. Hopefully at least one of them is something you might want to try and don't already have.

(note: Don originally started this thread w/post #4, but I moved some of the updates we were posting on the trade thread to here - Suze)

[KCMO_Don]

Thanks for the updates!!
I have 8 of the bi-color plants going as well (all PL).

I also grow all of the SUPER hot peppers, so I have over 100 pepper plants to baby-sit as well.

[KCMO_Don]

So if we are all getting potato leaf seedlings... that is even more curious!
when my daughter showed me where she got it, pointed inthe direction of NAR, Carbon, Paul Robeson, and Marriana's Peace! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[Magnolias4Ever]

My tomatoes are about 3' high now. The plants are very healthy -- straight stocky stalks, potato leaf....

They are just beginning to bloom and the flower looks like a double-type flower (double the # of yellow petals) versus a single-type flower like some of my other tomatoes.

Also, it looks like 4 or 5 tomato blooms on one truss.

How's everyone else's doing? I will try to take a couple of pics to post soon.

[KCMO_Don]

Hey Judy...
I have the same thing!
5-6 tomatoes per truss!!!!!

ANy updates from you?

[Moonglow]

i cannot wait to see photos on this thread .

[Magnolias4Ever]

Hi Don! How about an update?

Initially each truss had several tomatoes. The plant has culled down each truss to just 1 tomato each.... kinda weird, but the other just dried up and fell off.

But the one fruit remaining on each truss is HUGE! it is sort of flat-ish and very ruffled.... Here's a pic of the largest one (you can also see another one in the back that is smaller on another truss).



Just wondering, was the original tomato ruffled like this?

I can't wait to see what this one looks like when it's ripe.... to me it looks like it's going to be striped because there are darker green stripes on it already...

What do you think?

[Suze]

I picked my first one a couple of days ago (6/17), and brought inside to finish up on the counter because I saw it blushing about halfway up and it was my watering day. Late season in my garden, coming in around the same time as (for example) other lates like Aunt Gertie's Gold, Lillian's Yellow, etc.

Just cut into it (6/19) and flavor is great - reminds me a lot of Regina's Yellow for taste. Peachy/fruity, but not bland at all.

Pics aren't the best for lighting (sorry) because I just now took them indoors.

[KCMO_Don]

Mine are mostly golf ball sized at this point, but "appear" to be bi-color on 5 deep trusses.
Who knows what they will ripen to be.

To me this is a huge part of the fun of OP tomatoes (and peppers).

Thank you SO much for going to the trouble of growing this for me. Did it appear to have any bi-color attributes? My monitor, and my old eyes had your fruit mostly pink.

Thanks again!

I'll post picts soon.

Don

[KCMO_Don]

Originally Posted by Magnolias4Ever

Hi Don! How about an update?

Just wondering, was the original tomato ruffled like this?

I can't wait to see what this one looks like when it's ripe.... to me it looks like it's going to be striped because there are darker green stripes on it already...

What do you think?

Thanks for the update Judy!!
I don't remember much ruffling, but I am kicking myself for not taking a picture!

It seems that there is a fair amount of variation among the f1 versions.

I have an RL and a PL version in my garden. The RL plant is throwing trusses like a cherry tomato!!! But at this point they do appear to be bi-color!


Thanks again for going to the trouble to grow this out!!
You are awesome!

Don

[KCMO_Don]

Does anyone have any saved seeds from this project?

Magnoliasforever (Judy I think) had some AWESOME fruits and was supposed to send me some seeds, but she simply vanished after posting pictures.

Thanks
Don

donpratt1@gmail.com

[KCMO_Don]

Thank you SO much for taking the time to grow these, and to post your pictures!
You are Awesome!!

[sic transit gloria]

Looks like Regina's Yellow, maybe a little more yellow. If it was dead ripe, it would probably have more pink and look very close to RY. Interesting.

[KCMO_Don]

Still really cool to me since I almost exclusively grow reds, pinks, and blacks.
I grew Kellog's breakfast last year but it was 20 feet from where this was picked.
Like I said before, I just think it's so neet that the grow outs aren't producing normal red fruits like the parent plant.
I'll try and get some picts of what mine are doing.

Thanks again!

[Magnolias4Ever]

Wow, my tomato is still growing and showing no signs of ripening.... here's an updated pic from this afternoon:


The white you see on the leaves is a little DE to control aphids...

This tomato is just continuing to grow even more... I would have thought that it would at least show some signs of turning, but it hasn't yet. It is by far the largest tomato I have in the garden!!!

Here's a picture of the next one (just a bit smaller than the first one).... it has also culled down to just the one tomato on the truss... it is going to be very large too:


This tomato was transplanted into the garden on 4/10/2009 so it's already at 78 days.

I can't wait to see what it is going to look like as a ripe tomato but at the same time, I'm really excited to see how big the fruit is going to get!!