Real Box Car Willie

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Mark0820

I guess I have the real Box Car Willie tomatoes. I just found a thread on another site where Remy posted a picture of some smaller sized Box Car Willie tomatoes. She also describes two different sizes and slightly different shapes that match my description in the previous post. Since her description matches the tomatoes I am getting from Sandhill's seed, it must be the real deal.

I'm still not sure whether the hollowness I am experience is normal for BCW, or whether it is possibly due to the weather we had this year. I don't know why, but I just assumed it was a solid slicing tomato.

I still plan on buying seed from Remy, and next year will grow Remy's seed next to Sandhill's seed and see how they compare (since both got their seed from Carolyn).

Mark, just a couple of comments.

From the get go I've never gotten two shapes for BCW; always a slightly oblate, not completely round fruit shape.

And I've never gotten hollow ones either. But look up tomato puffliness and you'll see it can be weather related.