Ripening fruit

[MargeH]

I am starting to get ripe fruit on a lot of my plants.

Citron compact. I didn't know a tomato could taste like that. Really good.




Campbell 1327. I tried to drown this plant in a defective self-watering pot and thought that this was the only tomato I would get.
Now that it has recovered they have all started growing.




Prue. We had rain last week and it cracked.




A couple other new photos.

German Red Strawberry. Carolyn's seed.




My first mystery. This is a saved seed from a plant that I grew in the fall. The seed came out of a pack of Homestead
seeds from Totally Tomatoes. I grew the first one in a 7 gallon self-watering pot.
The plant got to be 7 ft. tall before it got TYLCV. I wasn't expecting a plant that big. It was a real surprise.





Green Zebra. These are cool looking tomatoes. I hope I like the flavor.

[Adenn1]

Great pictures Marge! Please report on taste when you can. I am so envious right now...I hope to put a couple of my toms in containers in a couple of weeks.

[garnetmoth]

drool :-) good work,

how does citron compact taste? lemony? sweet?

[cthomato]

Nice pix! If your Green Zebra is anything like what I grown, it will not taste like any tomato you've tried before. It takes a little getting used to, IMHO.

[MargeH]

Garnetmoth
I had to wait for another Citron to ripen before deciding what to say about it. I'm not good at describing taste, but I guess I would say it is mild, sweet and fruity, with a hint of tomato taste. I liked it and have saved seeds to grow this one again. I have to grow in pots because where I have sun in my backyard is around the pool on cement. I have trees where there is dirt. Ctiron is a nice one to grow in pots.

Cthomato
Still no green zebras have ripened. I have lots of them on the plant so I hope I do like it.

I ate my first Break O' Day yesterday. I really am glad that I listened to Carolyn about that one. It has a nice old-time tomato taste. I also liked my first German Red Strawberry. Sweeter than Break O' Day but really good. My first Brandy Boy and Brandywine are starting to turn. I am looking forward to trying those two.

Marjorie

[MargeH]

Here is a photo of my haul on May 4. The season is in full swing here.
Tomatoes include Brandy Boy, Brandywine, Kimberly, Citron Compact, Break O Day, Homesweet, Sweet 100, Sungold, Sweet Baby Girl,
Red Zebra, Lime Green Salad, German Red Strawberry, Momotaro and a purple at the back from seeds I saved from a tomato
I bought at a farmer's market last summer in Asheville, NC. I think it is a Cherokee Purple. Does it look like one??

[feldon30]

Marge,

You post some of the best pictures on here, and you seem to be having fantastic results!! I doubt my tomatoes will look that good.

[MargeH]

Thanks Feldon,

I got a Canon S3 for Chirstmas and I am really enjoying it.

In my job I have done some photography, but I don't consider myself a real professional. I do get advice from some, though.

Marjorie

[duajones]

Originally Posted by feldon30

Marge,

You post some of the best pictures on here, and you seem to be having fantastic results!! I doubt my tomatoes will look that good.

Agreed, great photos and fantastic looking tomatoes. Very well done! And if that is a cherokee purple, it sure is pretty compared to what I normally get.

Duane

[dcarch]

Can good pictures be taken by accident? Possible.

I think there is a lot of evidences showing whoever took this picture is very skillful and with talent:

1. A long focal length lens setting is used to get a nice perspective, from foreground to background.

2. A diffused illumination is used to get a very nice soft look without sharp shadows such as from using a flash.

3. A plain backdrop is used to accentuate the subjects.

4. Very nice composition.

Two thumbs up.


dcarch

[garnetmoth]

thanks for the taste reviews and awesome pictures!

[Star]

beautiful photos

marge... how tall is your citron compact ?


thanks,
Star

[MargeH]

Originally Posted by Star

how tall is your citron compact ?

I am growing one plant in a 5 gal. self-watering pot. My plant is about 4 ft. So far, I have picked 8 tomatoes off of it. There are probably about 10 more on the plant. We have hit high temps (high 80s-low 90s) and humidity and most of my plants have slowed down. I don't know if I will get anymore on it now.

Marjorie

[honu]

Marge, absolutely gorgeous! You are a very talented photographer and tomato grower! What is TYLCV?

[MargeH]

Thank you for the praise on my photographs. I am a quilter and I am trying to come up with the right picture to do a quilt in the style of Ruth McDowell (a fabulous art quilter for those of you who don't know anything about quilts beyond the ones on beds). That means I have been taking a lot of pictures.

Originally Posted by honu

What is TYLCV?

It is Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus. Your climate is probably right for it, so hope it doesn't find its way to Hawaii anytime soon. It showed up in Florida in the '90s from the Caribbean. The strain of it here originated in Israel. They have been dealing with it for about 40 years.

If you visit GW, see if you can find Delta Charlie's discussion of it from a couple of weeks ago. He had a great picture of an infected plant. Someone also posted some links to literature on it in that thread. Carolyn had some things on it, too.

It is a bad virus that is spread by the whitefly. The leaves become misshapen with yellow margins and each set of leaves that forms is smaller and more misshapen. It pretty much stunts the plant and you rarely get more tomatoes from the point the plant is infected. If you do, they are much smaller that normal.

I thought I had it again in one of my plants early this year, but I pulled that plant and it hasn't shown up anywhere else.

Marjorie