Some interesting pics/varieties (CAUTION: Pic Heavy)

[korney19]

First, I mentioned to somebody at the Buffalo-Niagara Tomato Tastefest some of these...


Sophie's Choice... SPROUTING SEEDS!






Jagged Leaf, a potato leaf variety whose descriptions varied from 3oz to 8oz, and so did the fruit:




BabyBeef, cute as a button--U.S. Quarter sized baby beefsteaks on a dwarf plant:




A dwarf Angora:






A Cherokee Green Cross F2 (working name Cherokee Bi-Color) many versions/colors:




A yellow version:



A green when ripe, First Stage:



Same green when ripe vesion, Stage II:



There are also green & orange, green & amber, and gold & orange versions.


Rose Quartz Multiflora:




SuperMultiFloraLicious (23-24 fruit in this cluster... some fell off; same 9" plate but had to zoom out to get the pic):




Dwarf Variegated:




Green Potato Leaf Dwarf:




Last but not least, from Carolyn... Kellogg's Breakfast Heart Cross:

[BigdaddyJ]

I'm interested in Baby Beef. Taste? Production? How small a dwarf plant? Perhaps a candidate for my sunny bay window this winter???

TIA

[tomatoaddict]

ditto on the baby beefsteaks. I want to know about them

[MikeInCypress]

Mark, What is the history on Baby Beef? Looks a little like Ceylon but without all the fluting?

MikeInCypress

[korney19]

I forgot all about them. They were planted in between my peppers in 4 gallon buckets, got about 18" tall & 18-24" wide, and what's in the pic was about half of what's on ONE plant. They have variable locules--some have 3-5 locules and some that are boat shaped have them zigzagging locules like boat-shaped beefsteaks. They are seedy and tomatoey tasting, not sweet but maybe similar to Riesentraube. I just harvested enough today to save seeds before I forget. I only tasted a half of one while seedsaving so can't give a better description yet.

[remy]

Mark,
Neat photo of Sophie's Choice with the seeds growing!
Have you grown Red Star? It has cute fruit like Baby Beef, but it is a normal size plant. It was early and very productive for me last year. Plus it tastes way better than Ceylon.
If you want seeds let me know.
Remy

[carolyn137]

Back in the early 90's I received a series of crosses done by Stanley Zubrowski of Canada.

He was trying to introduce some taste into early varieties and so had crossed Brandywine with varieties such as Stupice, Glacier, and I'd have to check the others.

I grew out what he sent and distributed F2 seeds to many folks who were at that time subscribers to the newsletter that Craig and I were doing on heirloom tomatoes called OTV( Off the Vine)

So what?

Well, many of those crosses led to mini beefsteaks such as Mark showed above. I never worked with those crosses but others did, and I've lost track of what happened to their selections.

I think I still have some old seeds of some of those crosses around somewhere and it's entirely possible that some folks here did get the F2 seeds as well from one seed offer I made at GW several years ago along with about 100 other varieties.

Cute, cute, cute, they were, and not bad tasting at that.