Not Isis Candy

[Suze]

From the same seed pack I've used before -- a cross, an instability?

Seems I remember reading somewhere that Isis Candy can occasionally be unstable.

Thoughts?

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Ate the dead ripe one this evening. Flavor is good.

[Rena]

I dont have any idea Suze but it looks tasty! :wink: My isis died so I could not compare with you! This is the second year. I think I am giving up.-Rena

[carolyn137]

Suze,

That sure is not Isis Candy, the coloration is wrong, and I've never heard of it being unstable and from several sources it's always been cherry size.

I'm here checking something, all showered, ready to take off for the hospital soon altho I got bumped b'c of an emergency ortho surgery needed by a little boy. Children with emergencies have priority, then adults with emergencies, then comes the regular elective surgeries, which makes sense.

My brother just made a pot of coffee and I'm going nuts just smelling it. Sigh.

So surgery today but just later than scheduled.

And that isn't Isis Candy, to get back to the issue at hand.

[Suze]

I left this one out--



A google search on "isis candy" + unstable has a result from Dave's Garden (2002 post Brook did). Only DG members would be able to see this, and only if logged in while doing the search. So that's where I might have gotten the idea.

Anyhow, whatever happened (cross, stray seed in the pack, instability), the flesh on this one is consistently showing a bit of red/orange marbling throughout the fruit. Doesn't show well in the pic of the slice, but it's there.

Also, the striping that radiates from the blossom end remains even when the fruit is ripe. The shoulders remain orangish yellow with a couple of green 'splotches' too. Size is consistently flattened tennis ball size. Overall, an interesting looking fruit.

Rena, I'm saving seeds. Do you want some? Hard to tell what we'll get, though...

[nctomatoman]

I've found it to be unstable - just as in Snow White cherry - my suspicion is that Joe Bratka distrubuted them prior to them being fully stable. I've isolated a very tart, seedy medium sized oblate bright yellow from Isis. I once had a red cherry from Snow white Cherry.

[Suze]

Originally Posted by nctomatoman

I've found it to be unstable - just as in Snow White cherry - my suspicion is that Joe Bratka distrubuted them prior to them being fully stable.

Craig, that is pretty much exactly what Brook said in that post.

How stable is the tart yellow you isolated?

[nctomatoman]

The tart yellow is fairly stable - I haven't grown it in a few years. This fall I may offer a few seeds to a few people to grow it out more extensively (I named it Canary - I haven't seen another tomato quite like it!). I grew it prior to having a digital camera, so unfortunately, don't have a picture to share.

[Gimme3]

In my humble opinion...an Isis Candy is a strange, an beautiful in it's unique habit of growth...Tomato. But it's worthless to me, for ever havin any single thought about it bein even a half-way decent yielder.

In other words...i never got no Candy...good or bad...lol...from it. It's a Freak...in my book...a plant that Will
astound one, in it's unique structure, an then make a Fool, out of the grower that gave it space an attention....when it gives back....absolute Zero...))) Put this cultivar over in the Bonsai file,...please...)))