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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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F3- the Next Generation:
It was not easy to choose which of the F2's to work with first. There were a number from each cross that I thought were worth bringing forward. I decided to go with three potato leaf hearts to begin with as they are unique ,each in their way. Hoping to stabilize a bicolour, a black and a ribbed dark pink/purple heart. All three have a clear epidermis in the F2. The flavour was great on all three and all three were early enough to produce in my zone 3 garden. If you are interested, you can watch the progress on my garden page at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3581757&type=1 KarenO |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Montreal
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Karen, it's amazing! Wishing you great success. Remember when you get something stabilized, I'll take some seed! Good work. We need delicious tomatoes in our northern climes!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
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Nice looking starts Karen, good luck with the project.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Me wanty!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NJ, zone 7
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Wow, KarenO, love all your beautiful gardens: backyard, greenhouse, and community.
Your crosses look amazing. Nice hobby with crossing tomatoes. Excellent videos. All the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchinis, beens, lettuce, herbs... Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to your 2015 postings.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Thank you for the kind comments, I really appreciate the encouragement I have received here at TV since I started this project.
I am so looking forward to the time when I can send stable seed to my Tomatoville friends to try. It's a slow process and it tests my impatient nature sometimes but I do think they will be worth waiting for in the end. Please continue to look in from time to time to see how they are doing. I am interested in any comments and ideas folks here have. Karen |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Chicago
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What a beauty! I am definitely out of my league...
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: glendora ca
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I wish i could see the link but i dont use facebook.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NJ, zone 7
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I do not use Facebook but can see the link and videos.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Hiya,
It's a public Gardening page I call Northern Gardener so anyone should be able to see it I think, even folks who do not have FB accounts themselves. have a try and let me know if you can't see the album please KarenO |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Yes, I can see it although I don't use Facebook.
Don't forget to post here too, Karen, so us non-FB users are reminded to see what's new. I hope you have a great season, and may you find the stable traits you seek! ![]() ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: glendora ca
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Thanks for the pics. I tried the link but it required me to log into facebook. Maybe that happens when you try it from a phone oh well. Beautiful i am liking the bicolor. Who am i kidding i like both great job.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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24 of each. So far so good with (as I thought) 100% potato leaf seedlings. Strong and vigorous with first true leaves. Opening up the greenhouse and potting up on the weekend
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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These are the three selections I'm working with this year. All Indeterminate potato leaf plants. This one chosen for odd colour and shape, ribbed blunt hearts. Meaty few seeds and fantastic flavour very dark pink/purple with clear epidermis. "Tundra" is what I call it
Last edited by KarenO; April 10, 2015 at 03:40 AM. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Midnight Sun: meaty bicolour hearts ripen pale yellow all the way to a dark apricot with dark pink/ yellow marbled interior. Great flavour. Clear epidermis
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