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Originally Posted by greyghost
Ella, I'm growing La Vie en Rose from Secret Seed Cartel as well. Several years ago, maybe '9 or'10, Terry had sent another T'Ville member, BigdaddyJ seeds for
Claude Brown's Yellow Giant which produced a large coral tomato. They decided
to call it Claude's Coral Giant--Bigdaddy gave me seeds-I thought it was great tasting but too often, I got a large yellow (not our favorite). Terry eventually named the stabilized coral La Vie en Rose and the yellow segregate Moonshiner's
Ball -I've read that MB may listed on her site this fall. Mine are good but not quite as good as before-none of mine are this year. I also have a lot of catfaced fruit even though I culled as many as I could. Just not the best year for looks or taste! I should have mentioned that at the time of the cross, Terry thought the parents might have been Claude Brown's Giant Yellow and Fritz Ackerman.
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Darlene,
I actually read that Claude Brown's Yellow Giant was one of the parents on the website written by Terry (with pictures of LVeR and M). And was hopping one day to be able to grow it. I like CBYG. I got my seeds for CBYG from Maria/blueribbontomatoes, have being growing it for few years now. I pick at the end of the season few green tomatoes from CBYG and let them ripen. We have them as the last onec of the season. They are big maters. The biggest was more than 2 pounds. They are late for me. None is ripe yet.
Thank you for the seeds of LVeR. It is an excellent tomato.