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Old January 29, 2016   #16
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After reading Fred's glowing review, I put ICD on my wish list and Gary kindly sent me some seeds. I'm going to grow it, in the north, this summer.

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Old January 29, 2016   #17
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I got some ICD too from Gary's swap and I'll be growing it out this year. Looks like there will be some diversity of areas. Hopefully it does well for everybody.
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Old January 29, 2016   #18
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I also received some in the swap- the name sounds like it is a candy, LOL, and will be growing it out this year.

So many lovely tomatoes, some with silly or funny names, some that are tongue twister names and so on, but all hopefully will be so good!

I am excited to grow a LOT of peas, beans, tomatoes and corn, plus my absolute favorite summer squash the old stand by, yellow crooknecks! I love the warty ones, think they have more flavor. And also several other squashes, plus the ever lovely and seductively sweet melons.

Can it be summer without melons?!!
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Old January 29, 2016   #19
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Our ICD have germinated and look really good.

It's good to see you back Star
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Old January 29, 2016   #20
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I would be interested in growing ICD if anyone has seeds to spare. I grew Blueberry cherry last year and really liked the flavor, as long as I left it long enough to get nice and ripe. I probably don't have any interesting tomato varieties to exchange but might have something along the lines of greens/peppers.
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Old January 29, 2016   #21
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I would be interested in growing ICD if anyone has seeds to spare. I grew Blueberry cherry last year and really liked the flavor, as long as I left it long enough to get nice and ripe. I probably don't have any interesting tomato varieties to exchange but might have something along the lines of greens/peppers.
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Old January 29, 2016   #22
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Just to show how my mind works, I saw ICD and my brain interpreted it as Impulsive Compulsive Disorder. I just thought about it and said "Yep!"

Yes, I too am growing ICD this year and will have plants for sale.
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Old January 30, 2016   #23
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Gary sent 3 seeds of ICD and was not going to grow any more blue tomatoes as I didn't like the flavor. You've all changed my mind and I'm hoping all 3 seeds will germinate.

Thanks for the thumbs up!
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Tormato is sending me ICD, too, if he still has them; hoping to have it in my row of cherry tomatoes this season.
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Old February 2, 2016   #25
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How big the ICD plant grow, relative to Indigo rose and Indigo Apple ?

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Old February 3, 2016   #26
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kayrobbins - Thanks for the nice words about Painted Pink. There have been a lot of obstacles to overcome in developing blue tomatoes with good flavor. Selections of breeding stock made by researchers early on were partly to blame. Fortunately, many of the lines out there now are much improved.
I grew a plant labeled Indigo Cherry Drops from a local nursery last season and it struggled in our unusually damp, cool weather. It would be better to have started from seed and I should do that this year.
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i tryed dancing with smurfs last year and didnt like the flavor at all so this year im trying siberian tiger its said that its pretty tasty.
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How do you know when they are ripe? All of mine start out very dark with a small patch of green on the bottom. Now one has the small green patch changing to red. Is it ripe? Do I need to wait until the small red patch is a deeper red?
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Old May 31, 2016   #29
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When my ICD's were ripe the bottom was a brick red so it sounds like yours needs a little longer.
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kayrobbins - Thanks for the nice words about Painted Pink. There have been a lot of obstacles to overcome in developing blue tomatoes with good flavor. Selections of breeding stock made by researchers early on were partly to blame. Fortunately, many of the lines out there now are much improved.
I grew a plant labeled Indigo Cherry Drops from a local nursery last season and it struggled in our unusually damp, cool weather. It would be better to have started from seed and I should do that this year.
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Lee, growing Indigo Cherry Drop and Painted Pink worked out so well for me. The Indigo Cherry Drop produced earlier but it also was one of the first tomato plants to decide it had enough of Florida's weather. Painted Pink took its time but is producing like crazy despite the heat. That made a perfect combo for me and I will grow both again this fall.

I am not sure if it was part of your breeding goal but Painted Pink and Danube always give me tomatoes after everything else is done.
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