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Old March 21, 2018   #1
KarenO
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Planted several early tomatoes to practice on in the new greenhouse A few weeks ago and they are all growing well, most are blooming and starting to set fruit in the Greenhouse:

GGWT
Amurskiy Tigr
Gold Pearl
Betimes Macbeth... Not micro, not even dwarf... so the two plants I grew are not Betimes Macbeth... never once have I grown a Wagner tomato seed that was what it was supposed to be... Oh well so it will be a surprise and as long as it's edible will be fine in April I'm not very fussy.
Siberjak
Andrina
Red Robin
Tiny Tim
Yellow dwarf
Rose Quartz Multiflora
Karzelek Palawski
Aztek
Venus
Beliy Naliv
Alaska
Maskotka
F5 Dwarf PL black cherry... needs a name.

Main Group sowed today March 21:

F7Midnight Sun
F7 Tundra
F7 True Colours
F6 Polaris

KARMA Pink F7
KARMA Purple F6
KARMA Purple MF F6
KARMA Apricot F6
KARMA Miracle F6

F6 Peachy Keen (working name)new at F5 segregation from KARMA Apricot) 4 oz supersweet delicious PL Bicolour.

F4 dehybridized tumbler F1 cherry Terrenzo

F5 Sahara-dehybridizing a dry no gel red plum/paste. long keeper

6 new F3 Beefsteak and 2 globes from my crosses, unnamed as yet. Looking forward to these a lot.
Clear yellow PL
Bright Red PL
Bright pink PL
Green shouldered black RL
Chocolate Brown RL

above are all very large beefsteaks

Bicolour yellow and red with green gel and a red nipple on the blossom end RL. F2 was intensely sweet.

Dark rose-Purple globe RL
Chocolate Brown globe RL Both of these are perfect shape ? semi determinate or possibly large determinate plants

And the rest of the Garden :these mostly new for me, an eclectic mix of everything: excited to try all of the new ones

Ramallet Reina Maria
Mansilla De Las Mulas
Pomidor Paw
Queen Marbena
Inima Dorinei
Belle Angevine
Elgin Pink
Not Purple Strawberry
Violet Noir
Mocha Splash
Altai Orange
Vintage wine (or not
Sirenovoe Ozero
Rick Munday
Blue River
Meme Beauce
Black Gruska
Maralinga
Dwarf Sophie's Choice
Grekisk Balkong
Orange Cream
Dwarf Russian Swirl
Tennessee Suited
Tsarskiy Podorok
Glossy Rose Blue
Ted's pink Currant
Green giant
Columbianum
Bosque green cherry
Aurantiacum
Russian Queen
Tsar Kolokol
Brad's atomic grape
Starfire improved
Red Viper
Donskoi
Captain Lucky
Earl's red
La Nanesse
Dragon's Eye
Sailors Luck

That's it so far anyway. Always subject to last minute additions if I find a spare centimeter of room.
KarenO

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That's some list! I didn't realize you grew so many. You're up there with Marsha.

Do you grow mainly in the GH?

Best of luck with your garden.
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Old March 22, 2018   #3
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Mostly outdoors. In the greenhouse just as seedlings. My crosses get the best garden spots, the others in pots everywhere.
Crazy tomato lady.
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Old March 22, 2018   #4
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“Peachy keen”
Small beefsteak that grew out in the F5 from KARMA apricot. Hoping to coax a bit more size and keep the awesome sweet flavour.
PL early MS IND Small bicolour yellow and pink beefsteak
Nice Surprises keep popping up
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Those are so pretty. Like KARMA Apricot in a large size. KA was so sweet and peachy tasting, I predict it is going to be as beloved as KARMA pink. If this tastes like its KARMA before it, you will have a superb tomato. Here's our beautiful KARMA Apricot bicolor.
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Wow KarenO! Simply huge, sounds like a full time job.
I'm so happy to see Midnight Sun and True Colors at F7.... congrats! And all the diversity of OP's, I hope you're going to show and tell everything about them.
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Karen, how many do you grow of each cross?
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Incredibly diverse list! I hope you have a great growing year!
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Old March 22, 2018   #9
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Karen, how many do you grow of each cross?
Of the higher generations only a couple of each since they are appearing mainly stable.
the F3’s will be more as there will usually be more variability to select from. The more you grow of the early generations the higher
the chance of finding something to select that is worth continuing.
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Those are so pretty. Like KARMA Apricot in a large size. KA was so sweet and peachy tasting, I predict it is going to be as beloved as KARMA pink. If this tastes like its KARMA before it, you will have a superb tomato. Here's our beautiful KARMA Apricot bicolor.
It’s not necessarily easy to recover larger size from a cherry, maybe the dominent small size genes will reassert themselves but I’m hoping it stays this big or preferably even a bit bigger.
As always, time will tell. It tasted amazing.
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That's some list! I didn't realize you grew so many. You're up there with Marsha.

Do you grow mainly in the GH?

Best of luck with your garden.
About the same number as usual although the first time since we moved I am back up to full speed. Mostly I only post about my crosss but I can’t resist trying new to me ones every year. I will have lots of nice and fairly unusual ones for the swaps and for trades which I enjoy. Also, if the timing is right I have some new crosses in mind...
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Karen, what do in your spare time? Haha.

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Karen, what do in your spare time? Haha.

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I can tomatoes for a hobby. After watering all the hot dry summer ...
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I hope the Karma Purple MF & Dwarf Black Cherry PL will be available in a couple of years.
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