Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
|
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
February 20, 2012
|
#1 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Andrews, Texas
Posts: 104
|
Rumors of my demise are exaggerated...
You have to love the internet. I started posting on gardening forums around 2001, just a few years before the variety JD's Special C-Tex became popular. I've noticed several descriptions of that variety that say it was developed by the "late" JD Whitaker. I've even gotten a few e-mails asking me if I was the breeder of that tomato.
For the record, I did not develop the C-TEX tomato, though I wish I had, and I am very much alive. My only connections to the tomato are that my first two initials are JD, and I am (thankfully) a Texan. It is cool having something in common with Mark Twain and Paul McCartney!  Jason |
|
|
|
February 20, 2012
|
#2 |
|
Two-faced Drama Queen
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
Posts: 955
|
now THAT is awesome. I would definitely have some fun with that.
|
|
|
|
|
February 20, 2012
|
#3 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: WI, USA Zone4
Posts: 1,887
|
Dang, I got it all wrong too. I thought you were in the tractor business!
|
|
|
|
|
February 20, 2012
|
#4 |
|
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Z6 WNY
Posts: 2,354
|
 That is too funny!Remy
__________________
"I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop |
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#5 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Cypress, TX
Posts: 963
|
JD:
Did you own a wholesale nursery in the Houston area in the 1980's? Just Curious MikeInCypress
__________________
"Growing older, not up" |
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#6 | |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Andrews, Texas
Posts: 104
|
Quote:
I graduated High School in 1990...didn't own much of anything in the 80's. I did go to Astroworld once. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#7 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: NW Indiana
Posts: 1,150
|
So, I'm still confused. Is there another JD Whitaker (the late JD Whitaker of Conroe, TX) or or is actually you (very much alive) who's name is inexplicably attached to this tomato?
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#8 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Pleasure Island, NC 8a
Posts: 1,162
|
AWESOME! Absolutely awesome epitaph material!!!
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#9 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Anmore, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,970
|
JD,
Wow, so awesome that you posted this! Now I wonder if there was another JD Whitaker in Conroe, Texas, who had something to do with this tomato? Tatiana
__________________
 Tatiana's TOMATObase
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#10 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Andrews, Texas
Posts: 104
|
I'm confused as well. Either scenario is possible. I know the variety originated in Southeast Texas and when it was first discussed on this and other forums its lineage was unknown.
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#11 |
|
Tomatoville® Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 4,386
|
JD
Great story! Glad that you are still with us!
__________________
Michael |
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#12 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Edina, MN (Zone 4)
Posts: 945
|
I thought the name was J.D. Green - the person who originated JD's Special C-Tex.
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#13 | |
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
Posts: 21,169
|
Quote:
__________________
Carolyn |
|
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#14 |
|
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,250
|
I confess. I did it.
What? Carolyn, I have to point out that use of the pronoun "him" in the above sentence is extremely ambiguous. Did Craig give the seed to J.D Whitaker? or did John Green give the seed to Craig. DarJones |
|
|
|
|
February 21, 2012
|
#15 | |
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
Posts: 21,169
|
Quote:
John Green of TN gave the seeds to Craig and Craig grew them out and named the variety Cherokee Purple, based on the information that John gave him. John was never able to locate the woman who gave him the seeds to get more information and the allele studies that were posted elsewhere more recently showed that Cherokee Purple could not be 100 years old. So there rests the story and Cherokee Purple has become a favoite of many growers, which I think is the most important aspect of the story.
__________________
Carolyn |
|
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
View Public Profile
Find More Posts by jdwhitaker
Visit remy's homepage!
Hybrid Mode
