Varieties that weren't

[JosephineRose]

I think Karen posted this over on her Facebook page, but how many times have you folks planted a variety you were excited about - only for it to turn out to be something else?


I have had it two of the last four seasons. This year, the culprit was "Dr. Wyche." I was super excited about trying those great big yellow tomatoes... and instead I am growing a red cherry. Oh well!


Stray seeds, sometimes the surprise is good, sometimes it's "meh."

[slugworth]

Anna Russian
Pictures looked good but turned out to be a paste tomato.
Oregon spring and sub arctic plenty took 75 days and tasted like
supermarket tomatoes in January.

[JosephineRose]

Originally Posted by slugworth

Anna Russian
Pictures looked good but turned out to be a paste tomato.
Oregon spring and sub arctic plenty took 75 days and tasted like
supermarket tomatoes in January.

I felt the same way about Oregon Spring.

[GrowingCoastal]

Originally Posted by JosephineRose

I felt the same way about Oregon Spring.

ditto

[Koala Doug]

I was excited to grow Lithium Sunset for the first time this year... but it, unfortunately, turned out to be Solar Flare (a variety that I was already quite familiar with).





C'est la vie... accidental seed mix-ups happen.


P.S. - If anyone has a few Lithium Sunset (the yellow-dominate, striped bi-color from Fred Hempel) seeds that they'd like to share with me, I'd be highly appreciative!

[Christa B.]

Here is my Lithium sunset, not sure if it's the right one. The striping is very faint and only on the bottom. This is my first one so I have no opinion on the flavor yet. If it looks right, I would be happy to send you some seeds.

[davidj]

I've got an Orange strawberry plant with potato leaves. They are not showing their color yet, but fruit shape looks similar to my regular orange strawberry plant. I'm growing this variety for the first time.

I'm also growing a Alpha tomato (from Experimental farm network) that has 7 to 10 oz flattened deeply ribbed red fruits. They are quite early for such big tomates, I picked three today, one week after my first Bison tomato (I picked a big Katja yesterday and my first Jaune Flammée today). The other plant has round-shaped smaller fruits. Other characteristics are similar (potato leaves, compact indeterminate healthy plants).

I might also have a Northern Lights cross from seeds collected last year. I usually get early very big fruits, but my plant have much smaller fruits this year. Can't wait to see them get their colors, then I'll know.

David

[jtjmartin]

I grew out Buffalo Soldier - mine are orange! Good taste though.

My Chris Ukrainian is striped like Green Zebra.

My Sweet Orange Cherry has never been orange (always yellow or golden). It's one of many favorites, however.

Sub Arctic Plenty was midseason for me, too. I liked the meaty texture.

Randy Sine's Evil Jalapeno gave me a plant that produced orange fruit and a plant that produced red fruit. I liked the orange one most.

One Ancient watermelon of mine had white flesh.

Urban Beefsteak had small fruit.

Omar's Lebanese did not get anything like giant fruit.

Pineapple was pure yellow (not bicolor), although I heard that this is normal.

One of my Mustard Bhutlahs has anthocyanin on its leaves and fruit, which is awesome.

Ammon Martin's ground cherry was not the stated species, but it's been my most prolific ground cherry, and has decent taste.

Pruden's Purple and Thessaloniki were variegated on some branches.

Mexican was a micro with large cherry tomatoes, which had good taste and texture.

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by shule1

My Chris Ukrainian is striped like Green Zebra.

My Sweet Orange Cherry has never been orange (always yellow or golden). It's one of many favorites, however.

Sub Arctic Plenty was midseason for me, too. I liked the meaty texture.

Randy Sine's Evil Jalapeno gave me a plant that produced orange fruit and a plant that produced red fruit. I liked the orange one most.

One Ancient watermelon of mine had white flesh.

Urban Beefsteak had small fruit.

Omar's Lebanese did not get anything like giant fruit.

Pineapple was pure yellow (not bicolor), although I heard that this is normal.

One of my Mustard Bhutlahs has anthocyanin on its leaves and fruit, which is awesome.

Ammon Martin's ground cherry was not the stated species, but it's been my most prolific ground cherry, and has decent taste.

Pruden's Purple and Thessaloniki were variegated on some branches.

Mexican was a micro with large cherry tomatoes, which had good taste and texture.

Oh wow, that is quite a circus
Never have I gotten a variegated version of anything. There have been differences between the promises and results though.
Some Russian varieties (seeds directly from the company) have produced totally differently from the expected and advertized.

Cosmonaut Volkov - turned out to be some red paste tomato.

Antonovka Medovaya - it should be green but so far it looks like any ordinary tomato... no hints of it being GWR.

A variety was supposed to be 'Golden eggs', in the picture they really looked oval shaped. The fruits look like long paste or sausage.. (like 'Eros' or 'Auria'..)
Ah well, if the taste turns out OK, all is well...

[Tormato]

Fish Lake Oxheart "Red". It weren't, and it still isn't.
This year (year 5?, year 6?) I finally got a red tomato. The problem is that it is heavily flutted piriform.

[ddsack]

Originally Posted by Tormato

Fish Lake Oxheart "Red". It weren't, and it still isn't.
This year (year 5?, year 6?) I finally got a red tomato. The problem is that it is heavily flutted piriform.

I have yet to see anyone put up their hand and say they got a red FLO. I highly suspect that the original release was a darker pink, and was described as a red without the epi skin test being done.
I grew German Red Strawberry this year, and it is a large heavily fluted piriform as well, on both plants! I've never grown it before, but it for sure does not look like a heart.

Then there is Dorothy's Mennonite BiColor. Which is a big beautiful and tasty tomato, but just a mono color pink. (Or is it red? Have not done the skin test!)

Originally Posted by shule1

My Chris Ukrainian is striped like Green Zebra.

My Sweet Orange Cherry has never been orange (always yellow or golden). It's one of many favorites, however.

Sub Arctic Plenty was midseason for me, too. I liked the meaty texture.

Randy Sine's Evil Jalapeno gave me a plant that produced orange fruit and a plant that produced red fruit. I liked the orange one most.

One Ancient watermelon of mine had white flesh.

Urban Beefsteak had small fruit.

Omar's Lebanese did not get anything like giant fruit.

Pineapple was pure yellow (not bicolor), although I heard that this is normal.

One of my Mustard Bhutlahs has anthocyanin on its leaves and fruit, which is awesome.

Ammon Martin's ground cherry was not the stated species, but it's been my most prolific ground cherry, and has decent taste.

Pruden's Purple and Thessaloniki were variegated on some branches.

Mexican was a micro with large cherry tomatoes, which had good taste and texture.

I forgot to mention a few:

* Red Trifele Russian was round (with little flavor).
* Pink Trifele Russian was a long paste-type.
* Pink Accordian was a long paste-type.
* Tropic was a tiny plant, too, similar to how Mexican turned out.
* Husky Red F1 was RL instead of rugose
* Chris Ukrainian was striped
* Kimberly was RL
* Chocolate Stripes was PL
* Delicious had both leaf types

All those I've mentioned so far were from store purchases. Here are some crosses from trades, SASE and such:
* Jim Dandy turned out to be an awesome multiflora cherry that sometimes tasted like butterscotch. Bush habit, but like a giant tumbleweed shape.
* Ambrosia Red was a prolific golfball-sized yellow with decent taste
* A stabilized Brandy Boy F12 turned out to be RL, but I loved it.

Here are some crosses from my own garden:
* Amana Orange is brownish and has stripes
* Pruden's Purple crossed with a similar tomato, producing red-orange fruits; the purple tasted better
* Missouri Pink Love Apple looked just like Girl Girl's Weird Thing (and had little flavor)
* Black Beauty crossed with Sweetie (the result was a prolific, large red cherry; almost every fruit split before I harvested it)
* The aforementioned Ambrosia Red that was a yellow golfball shape turned out to be a pink pleated, but not hollow, tomato the next year. Mushy, but not mealy flesh. Decent taste. Fermented quickly if you didn't eat it right away. Fruits weren't as large as say Zapotec.
* Probably lots of others, but I better be off.

[slugworth]

Red Brandywine
The tomatoes were red,but the plant was a determinate type.
I got 6 tomatoes then nothing.

[Gardadore]

My one Anna Maria’s Heart is producing beautiful medium sized globe luscious dark red ( black variety type) tomatoes. I have nothing else like them this year so it did not come from a seed that should have been sown in a different cell. It was from saved seeds so who knows what happened. I am saving the seeds and naming it Not Anna Maria’s Heart for my own use. If it comes back true I have a new winner for me! Taste is fantastic and all globes are about the same size. Beautiful tomato.