Early Girl PL Associate

[travis]

This year, I found two potato leaf seedlings displayed among regular leaf Early Girl seedlings at commercial vendors.

Here are three photos of fruit and leaves off the first PL leaf plant I found back in April in a six-pack of Early Girl seedlings at a big box store ...








I found the other potato leaf seedling about two weeks later at a nursery where they start all their own seedlings. They did not have a single potato leaf variety in stock, and the second PL seedling also was in with the Early Girls.

I don't know what this is all about ... whether these PLs are F2s or whether they are from seeds mistakenly collected from a parent of Early Girl that did not cross at the breeding farm, or what.

Whatever it is ... it's "associated" with Early Girl, so I'm callin' it EG Associate PL for the time being.

I don't have pictures yet of the other plant, but it has a whole lot more tomatoes on it, not as limp foliage, but none are near ripe yet ... photos of them later.

I kept one of the regular leaf Early Girls from the same 6-pack as the tomato in these photos for comparison. It is growing in a container and is loaded with green tomatoes, but none have ripened yet. The red tomato in the photos above is the second to ripen on the PL vine and there is another ready to pick tomorrow. So the PL is several days earlier than the RL.

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