Variations in Purple haze????

[veggie babe]

Ray, there you go displaying your toms on the wife's beautiful quilt again, I can't believe she hasn't put a stop to that bad behavior of yours.
Back to maters.............yours look great, my Danko didn't grow near that size. I am dying to taste a good fresh tom, I should have my first tomorrow and it is from a volunteer plant.

have a great season,

Neva

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by veggie babe

Ray, there you go displaying your toms on the wife's beautiful quilt again, I can't believe she hasn't put a stop to that bad behavior of yours.
Back to maters.............yours look great, my Danko didn't grow near that size. I am dying to taste a good fresh tom, I should have my first tomorrow and it is from a volunteer plant.

have a great season,

Neva

Neva, I think Ray said it was Druzba, not Danko.

While I like Druzba a lot, I'm always interested is seeing how Danko does for folks b'c I love that medium sized red heart on a determinate plant.

[rnewste]

Well, I guess I've done a pretty good job of confusing everyone.

The plant in the same 'Tainer with the Purple Haze pictured above is a Druzba.

The 2 ripe tomatoes pictured are last Season's Goose Creek.

..and yes, in a previous post, I am also growing a Danko plant this Season for the first time:



...Too many tomatoes . . . So little time....

Raybo

[bigbubbacain]

This is all so enlightening. I've now harvested quite a few PH toms. They tend to look like a miniature version of Indian Stripe. If I put one next to the other it looks like "mother and child". I now pick at the first sign of blush and bring them in for complete ripening. While it's not quite as romantic as allowing them to vine-ripen, I've managed to beat the MOCKINGBIRDS and I've gotten to every single fruit before them....and I did it without all that heinous bird netting!

[duajones]

Color for me is more like Paul Robeson the only time I grew it. Good to hear you are beating the birds Bubba!

[Vince]

Ray, were the mixed PL RL Seedlings derived from a RL F3?

[rnewste]

Vince,

I really don't remember the donor tomato PL or RL. Sorry.

Raybo

[bigbubbacain]

Originally Posted by duajones

Color for me is more like Paul Robeson the only time I grew it. Good to hear you are beating the birds Bubba!

Well, the fat lady hasn't sung yet. It's just June, and I'll be pushing my plants to see how long we can go before stink bugs and spider mites make it so depressing for me to keep growing.

I think the crazy little Jack Russell rat dog that runs loose in my garden does more to keep birds away than my early picking.

Bubba

[lumierefrere]

Ray got his seeds from me. I got mine from Keith. My experience is that each generation is "identical" to the F1.
I know my experience is atypical.

Barb