Anyone growing any mystery varieties for Spring 2013?

[checkerkitty]

I love mystery plants! I think of them as a treasure hunt and hope I strike it big. I've got a few plants already that are mysteries for now:

1. A volunteer from Fall 2012. It survived a freeze that took out a JDs in the same large bucket. It may be a variety called Orange Blossom that I picked up at Whole Foods last year that I grew in the same bucket. It's covered in baby blooms so I guess I'll find out soonish. Nice determinate plant. This one is going back in a large pot all by its lonesome.

2. A RL plant in a pack of Stump Of The World seeds. All the others came up as PL.

3. A plant I bought today at the nursery because I knew it was wrong. Marked as Black Krim with potato leaves. The seedling is about 5 inches tall and has a bloom spike forming already. I've called the supplier to check on any other PL varieties they are growing and the age of the seedling. I should be getting a call tomorrow.

4. I have some leaf variation in seeds of Brown Sioux. They are all RL but not all the plants are identical in leaf shape. We'll see on this one since I've never grown this before.

Anyone else?

[Doug9345]

I don't know if they count as mysteries but I'm growing 4 F2 level selections from the dwarf project, 2 experimental crosses from Carolyns offers. That should give me quite a variety.

[b54red]

I'm also growing one that came from my Indian Stripe seed. This will be my third year growing it and it has proven the last two years to be very vigorous. I don't know what it will do this year but will find out. I'm trying a bunch of them as rootstock in my grafting experiments. Hoping the fusarium resistance it showed the last two years is a genetic trait that is in the seed otherwise I'll have a bunch of grafted plants with no hope of survival. Oh well I'm having fun with the grafting and maybe I'll learn a thing or two.

[checkerkitty]

Originally Posted by Doug9345

I don't know if they count as mysteries but I'm growing 4 F2 level selections from the dwarf project, 2 experimental crosses from Carolyns offers. That should give me quite a variety.

I think those would count as mysteries. I'm sure you'll have some variation at the F2 level plus those experimental crosses should be fun.

[janezee]

I'm trying an F3 Sweet Million, and an OP Tumbler that is pink, I think. I'm not growing the tumbling pink I got otherwise unlabeled in a round robin, so I won't confuse the two this year. Hope to be growing F7 of Rebel Yell, too.

Planting is in 2 weeks for tomatoes, next week for peppers. Yippee!

j

[FreyaFL]

I have one! I received quite a variety of seeds from a fellow Tomatovillian (Gardenboy, who is wonderful to have shared so many!!!) and the first of them is beginning to produce. It is supposed to be a Purple Passion RL but it's not. I contacted him and he said the original plant was next to a Black Cherry. I'm so excited! The fruit is REALLY delicious. I'll include a picture to show what it looks like (I've never grown either Black Cherry or Purple Passion before, but from pictures, it doesn't look like either to me.) It's golf ball sized and I picked the first ripe fruit 50 days from transplanting. Not even the Black Cherry I have has ripe fruit yet.

[Doug9345]

It's a nice looking tomato. Make sure you save seed from it.

[lakelady]

I thought I was growing Ingegnoli Gigante Liscio last summer, and then realized the fruits were not turning color. Closer inspection and I realized they were white, not red tomatoes. I saved seed to see if this was a cross or what, and sent some to Tania too since i got my original seed from her. Should be interesting to see if they offspring are white also, or red as they should have been. They were milder than reds, but I thought pretty tasty for a white tomato (I am no expert by any means on white tomatoes though).

[Moshou]

My plans for 2014 include to grow old Romanian tomato varieties. So I spread the word all around.

As a result I received a lot of seeds from varieties I never heard about. A friend living in our main city Bucharest, sent me some seeds of a variety people grow in Corbeanca, a place situated not far away from Bucharest. They call it 'Corbeanca Orange'

What I know in this moment is this variety produces very tasty orange tomatoes. I asked for more info. If I'll receive, I will let you know. Until then it is a mystery tomato.

[habitat_gardener]

I got some TPS seedlings at a plant exchange, grown from a custom cross, so what I get may be a new potato variety. Or varieties.

[Greenthumbroy]

Hi Checkerkitty

I planted Pomodoro seeds importe from Italy on 02-16-13 and they have just started to germinate today 02-21-13. Not "too shabby" I'd say ....eh? I am so happy.

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I ope this is helpful.

Greenthumbroy

[carolyn137]

Mystery varieties?

None intentially thank you, but time will tell when I get to work and make a list of the new ones sent to me, pack them up and send to the now four folks who are doing seed production for me, and then we'll know.

Yes, I try to grow a plant of each here at home, well Freda does it for me, plants raised by Craig and shipped up from Raleigh, so until germination, should it be PLor RR, etc.,and in many cases I haven't a clue,I'll have to wait until early Fall before I know if there are any mystery varieties around.

Carolyn

[bower]

I had a plant last year from a packet of Anna Russian seed, which was RL (not wispy) so I stuck it outdoors in an old compost heap where it did very well by my neglect (healthy, fruitful, and sturdy - went through Hurricane Leslie without batting a leaf). The fruit was like Costuloto Genovese (my best guess by looks) and was pretty good. (pretty and good, actually!) so I saved the seed.

I don't know if this was a cross with Anna Russian, or simply a stray seed from a wrong variety, so I'm planning to start ten of em just to see whether there are any wispy leafed seedlings to indicate a cross (there were no Anna Russians or other wispies around for a cross in my garden). Either way, since it's idle curiosity and there's no greenhouse space for them this year, the seedlings will have to go to some outdoor spot, and see if they can thrive like their mama plant in a less-than-2012 year.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by bower

I had a plant last year from a packet of Anna Russian seed, which was RL (not wispy) so I stuck it outdoors in an old compost heap where it did very well by my neglect (healthy, fruitful, and sturdy - went through Hurricane Leslie without batting a leaf). The fruit was like Costuloto Genovese (my best guess by looks) and was pretty good. (pretty and good, actually!) so I saved the seed.

I don't know if this was a cross with Anna Russian, or simply a stray seed from a wrong variety, so I'm planning to start ten of em just to see whether there are any wispy leafed seedlings to indicate a cross (there were no Anna Russians or other wispies around for a cross in my garden). Either way, since it's idle curiosity and there's no greenhouse space for them this year, the seedlings will have to go to some outdoor spot, and see if they can thrive like their mama plant in a less-than-2012 year.

Anna Russian is RL, it's just that the leaves are narrow, very indented along the margins and thus wispy and droopy as are many but not all ehart v arieties are,. but still RL.

Carolyn

[checkerkitty]

Originally Posted by b54red

I'm also growing one that came from my Indian Stripe seed. This will be my third year growing it and it has proven the last two years to be very vigorous. I don't know what it will do this year but will find out. I'm trying a bunch of them as rootstock in my grafting experiments. Hoping the fusarium resistance it showed the last two years is a genetic trait that is in the seed otherwise I'll have a bunch of grafted plants with no hope of survival. Oh well I'm having fun with the grafting and maybe I'll learn a thing or two.

I hope your rootstock experiment works! It would be great to grow your rootstock from saved seed. I was going to graft this year and didn't get around to actually doing the grafting. Any practice is good.

Originally Posted by janezee

I'm trying an F3 Sweet Million, and an OP Tumbler that is pink, I think. I'm not growing the tumbling pink I got otherwise unlabeled in a round robin, so I won't confuse the two this year. Hope to be growing F7 of Rebel Yell, too.

Planting is in 2 weeks for tomatoes, next week for peppers. Yippee!

j

I think you'll have fun with those! Did you save the seed from Sweet Million and Rebel Yell to dehybridize?

Originally Posted by FreyaFL

I have one! I received quite a variety of seeds from a fellow Tomatovillian (Gardenboy, who is wonderful to have shared so many!!!) and the first of them is beginning to produce. It is supposed to be a Purple Passion RL but it's not. I contacted him and he said the original plant was next to a Black Cherry. I'm so excited! The fruit is REALLY delicious. I'll include a picture to show what it looks like (I've never grown either Black Cherry or Purple Passion before, but from pictures, it doesn't look like either to me.) It's golf ball sized and I picked the first ripe fruit 50 days from transplanting. Not even the Black Cherry I have has ripe fruit yet.

That is too cool. I hope you have great luck with that plant and it turns out to be stable. Early and delicious is a wonderful combination. I can think of a few people who will be hoping for seeds of that particular tomato.