Your favorite bicolors? - Page 2

Catntree · February 20, 2006

Tonnelet: The 60-90 g. fruits are elongated and red with yellow and orange stripes. Indeterminate growth. This variety was created, in 1990, by Luc Fichot, in Belgia.

Doesn't look like a bicolor, but a striped.
I haven't grown any of the three you mentioned, Jeanne, so can't help you.....hope they are good!

Little_Rhody · February 20, 2006

This is a picture of Berkley Tie Dye, cut open, that I took this past summer. This tomato has very pronounced zebra stripes and I think it is a sport of somthing like green zebra. Brad of Wild Boar farms could say for sure.

Carolyn137,

This looks like a bi-color to me. I'm wondering how you would categorize this tomato? If it is a bi-color, then it is unlike most other zebras, that do not have this interior marbling.

carolyn, I hope the pic shows up because it did not in the preview

Suze · February 20, 2006

I hope the pic shows up because it did not in the preview

'What you see is what you get' in preview.

Here's the pic (I hosted it, couldn't get your url to work here even with the proper tags ([ ]instead of <>) maybe
because it was so long?):

Seems like a bicolor to me -- has the marbling.

**nctomatoman** · February 20, 2006

What we have with this and Ananas Noire is a new type of bicolor! Typically, bicolor is shorthand for yellow with red marbling. With the advent of green fleshed varieties with red streaks, it is agreed that these are indeed bicolors - except we now have to qualify which colors make up the bi!

Grub · February 20, 2006

That's fully wild. Just sick. Way cool.
A tricolour, perhaps?

Did it taste good?

KCMO_Don · February 21, 2006

It looks like a WOUND!

Suze · February 21, 2006

It looks like a WOUND!

Perhaps. A rather yummy tricolor wound, at that.

TomatoDon · February 21, 2006

Suze,

I know you and others mention Lucky Cross quite often. Is that a yellow? A bi-color?

I am new to this Heirloom game. Does a full ripe yellow or bi-color taste like a red? I would think not. But then, I've never eaten one. I don't have a yellow or bi-color (that I am aware of) on my 2006 grow list and thought about adding Lucky Cross.

Just curious.

Don

Suze · February 21, 2006

Suze,
I know you and others mention Lucky Cross quite often. Is that a yellow? A bi-color?

Don,

LC is a PL bicolor, and it performs quite well for me. If I could only grow one bicolor,
it would likely be LC (or perhaps Burracker's Favorite) based on my experience so far.
As for the specifics of taste, I think you'll have to make that determination yourself.
And the only way to do that is to grow it. It's not one of the 'mild' bicolors in my opinion
(I don't care for 'mild').

My suggestion is to give it a shot.

Little_Rhody · February 21, 2006

Suze,

Thank you for posting the picture. That code always worked for me in that other place. I'll have to play around with it.

Grub,

I really liked this one. I has very good taste, not bland. This particular tomato was huge, and had split a little in the middle. It was probably over ripe.

Craig,

After reading Carolyn'd description of bi- colors and how zebra striping really doesn't qualify, I was also thinking this was something new and different. Anxious to see what you think when you grow it out.

carolyn

**carolyn137** · February 21, 2006

Hi other real Carolyn

Yes, it sure does look like a bicolor to me as well.

But I don't really think of some of Brad's stripey ones as the striped ones that I know as in Green Zebra, Red Zebra, Black Zebra, which have been out and about for quite a while. They have no interior secondary coloration.

If I remember correctly Brad has said that many of his striped ones probably came from crossing with I think it was Green Zebra, but the results of those crosses with unknown parents, I guess, are showing far more variability with secondary interior coloration.

Grub · February 21, 2006

KC,
Acidic, what, as in lysergic.
But I don't see any of that persistent purple haze.
Thank heavens.

bully · February 21, 2006

Ananas Noire is wild i have seeds if you want to try them.

I liked lil lucky and L.Cross.

none prettier than Copia..none blander either

I had this Hillbilly once that was awesome...mind out of the gutter people!

Nothing like that swirling paisley mix of cutting into a ripe Bi-color
Didn't fancy Burrackers Favorite..kept wondering what his least favorite tasted like.

Of course I'm still wondering what Mr. Kellogg eats for lunch and dinner.

**nctomatoman** · February 21, 2006

I don't know, Bully - Vintage Wine was even prettier than Copia - but it was a pretty horrible vintage!

feraltomatoes · February 22, 2006

I grew Vintage Wine last year and people where very happy with them. I wonder if its climate or what.
Pretty good tomato flavor and fairly sweet, very beautiful. I would say that East Coast-West Coast flavor preference is not a factor since at least half my market customers are from the Mid-West or East-Coast.

Is it possible that Berkeley Tie Dye crossed with that Morning Glory in my garden to give it that Acid flavor(lol)
Actually many claimed it to be a salty flavor during mid season, I would say it was the saltiest I have tried, is it possible to have a higher salt level in tomatoes or is it another compound?
This year I will try to taste the individual colors of one tomato and see if I can taste the difference, I have never tried this but I am going to assume that different color means different flavor, so eating a tri-color is like eating three tomatoes in one which would give it its own flavor.

February 20, 2006	#16
Catntree Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maine Posts: 177	Tonnelet: The 60-90 g. fruits are elongated and red with yellow and orange stripes. Indeterminate growth. This variety was created, in 1990, by Luc Fichot, in Belgia. Doesn't look like a bicolor, but a striped. I haven't grown any of the three you mentioned, Jeanne, so can't help you.....hope they are good! __________________ Zone 4/5

February 20, 2006	#19
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	What we have with this and Ananas Noire is a new type of bicolor! Typically, bicolor is shorthand for yellow with red marbling. With the advent of green fleshed varieties with red streaks, it is agreed that these are indeed bicolors - except we now have to qualify which colors make up the bi! __________________ Craig

February 20, 2006	#20
Grub Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 2,722	Wow! That's fully wild. Just sick. Way cool. A tricolour, perhaps? Did it taste good?

February 21, 2006	#21
KCMO_Don Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KANSAS Posts: 223	nice It looks like a WOUND! __________________ GIGGITY - GIGGITY

February 21, 2006	#23
TomatoDon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MS Posts: 1,521	Suze, I know you and others mention Lucky Cross quite often. Is that a yellow? A bi-color? I am new to this Heirloom game. Does a full ripe yellow or bi-color taste like a red? I would think not. But then, I've never eaten one. I don't have a yellow or bi-color (that I am aware of) on my 2006 grow list and thought about adding Lucky Cross. Just curious. Don __________________ Zone 7B, N. MS

February 20, 2006	#17
Little_Rhody Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: RI Posts: 106	This is a picture of Berkley Tie Dye, cut open, that I took this past summer. This tomato has very pronounced zebra stripes and I think it is a sport of somthing like green zebra. Brad of Wild Boar farms could say for sure. Carolyn137, This looks like a bi-color to me. I'm wondering how you would categorize this tomato? If it is a bi-color, then it is unlike most other zebras, that do not have this interior marbling. carolyn, I hope the pic shows up because it did not in the preview

February 20, 2006	#18
Suze Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 3,027	I hope the pic shows up because it did not in the preview 'What you see is what you get' in preview. Here's the pic (I hosted it, couldn't get your url to work here even with the proper tags ([ ]instead of <>) maybe because it was so long?): Seems like a bicolor to me -- has the marbling.

February 21, 2006	#26
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Hi other real Carolyn Yes, it sure does look like a bicolor to me as well. But I don't really think of some of Brad's stripey ones as the striped ones that I know as in Green Zebra, Red Zebra, Black Zebra, which have been out and about for quite a while. They have no interior secondary coloration. If I remember correctly Brad has said that many of his striped ones probably came from crossing with I think it was Green Zebra, but the results of those crosses with unknown parents, I guess, are showing far more variability with secondary interior coloration. __________________ Carolyn

February 21, 2006	#27
Grub Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 2,722	Acidic KC, Acidic, what, as in lysergic. But I don't see any of that persistent purple haze. Thank heavens.

February 21, 2006	#28
bully Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S.E. MI Posts: 794	Ananas Noire is wild i have seeds if you want to try them. I liked lil lucky and L.Cross. none prettier than Copia..none blander either I had this Hillbilly once that was awesome...mind out of the gutter people! Nothing like that swirling paisley mix of cutting into a ripe Bi-color Didn't fancy Burrackers Favorite..kept wondering what his least favorite tasted like. Of course I'm still wondering what Mr. Kellogg eats for lunch and dinner.

February 22, 2006	#30
feraltomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Home=Napa Valley/ Garden=Solano County Posts: 245	I grew Vintage Wine last year and people where very happy with them. I wonder if its climate or what. Pretty good tomato flavor and fairly sweet, very beautiful. I would say that East Coast-West Coast flavor preference is not a factor since at least half my market customers are from the Mid-West or East-Coast. Is it possible that Berkeley Tie Dye crossed with that Morning Glory in my garden to give it that Acid flavor(lol) Actually many claimed it to be a salty flavor during mid season, I would say it was the saltiest I have tried, is it possible to have a higher salt level in tomatoes or is it another compound? This year I will try to taste the individual colors of one tomato and see if I can taste the difference, I have never tried this but I am going to assume that different color means different flavor, so eating a tri-color is like eating three tomatoes in one which would give it its own flavor.