Prudence Purple

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Gimme, PP was also one of my first heirlooms I ever grew. Like you, it was a Jack-in-the-Beanstalk, straight-up grower, very early, and then when it ripened - yeccch! It was completely inedible. Don't know if it was physiological, sunburnt, or what. White core, yellow shoulders, deep core, completely useless.

Then again, it may be climate related as my only other big, early pinks were lousy too - Gregori Altai and Anna Russian.