Earl's Faux, Yes..?

Vince · November 16, 2008

Casey's Heirloom tomato site is awesome. This was stolen from there and is in no way directed toward they are spreading false info. Solid web site, Cheers.

Read the below description please...
Earl’s Faux
Midseason!! ! Potato Leaf
A very dedicated tomato grower in Ohio, Earl
Candenhead, was expecting Red Brandywine, a regular
leaf variety, in a seed trade. He grew out those seeds
and was surprised to find a pink fruited potato leaf variety
instead. Earl grew it out again the following year and it
produced the same pink fruit and leaf type so his seeds
were not the result of some sort of unknown cross.
Heirloom growers absolutely gush over this variety as
they say that it is one of the finest examples of “well-balanced” flavour in a tomato.

Question How can a (STABLE) pink potato leaf variety arise from a rl Red Brandy wine within one generation? Answer..JMHO this is impossible. Earl's Faux, which I have grown several times and is delicious(smaller than BWS), must be another variety that has been misnamed. Unless, god, the moons of saturn, and Uranus were all alighned at once to create this new OP variety in one generation....? Or maybe it is a gift from god...Any one have an opinion of which tomato EF may actually be? Or is it really possible to have a stable mutation(with different (leaf, skin color, flavor) arise in one generation?

November 16, 2008	#1
Vince Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Riverside, CA Posts: 942	Earl's Faux, Yes..? Casey's Heirloom tomato site is awesome. This was stolen from there and is in no way directed toward they are spreading false info. Solid web site, Cheers. Read the below description please... Earl’s Faux Midseason!! ! Potato Leaf A very dedicated tomato grower in Ohio, Earl Candenhead, was expecting Red Brandywine, a regular leaf variety, in a seed trade. He grew out those seeds and was surprised to find a pink fruited potato leaf variety instead. Earl grew it out again the following year and it produced the same pink fruit and leaf type so his seeds were not the result of some sort of unknown cross. Heirloom growers absolutely gush over this variety as they say that it is one of the finest examples of “well-balanced” flavour in a tomato. Question How can a (STABLE) pink potato leaf variety arise from a rl Red Brandy wine within one generation? Answer..JMHO this is impossible. Earl's Faux, which I have grown several times and is delicious(smaller than BWS), must be another variety that has been misnamed. Unless, god, the moons of saturn, and Uranus were all alighned at once to create this new OP variety in one generation....? Or maybe it is a gift from god...Any one have an opinion of which tomato EF may actually be? Or is it really possible to have a stable mutation(with different (leaf, skin color, flavor) arise in one generation? __________________ Vince Last edited by Vince; November 16, 2008 at 03:51 AM.