Carolyn's Fall 2011 Feedback Data For Seeds Sent

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Heritage

Carol,

My Green Zebra Cherry were from Carolyn through SSE. I pruned a few greenhouse plants to a single stem and they produced large cherries - about golf ball size. I left a couple of other plants grow without pruning and the fruit from those was about one inch and smaller. Was the flavor of yours the same as GZ or was it sweeter (more typical of GZC)? It would be nice to have a larger GZC-flavored tomato.

Steve

First, Carol, it's good to see you back posting.

Now, about GZ cherry. It was named by Manfred Hahm who found it in the small box of cherries in a store in Germany and named b'c it looks like GZ. He was able to trace the shipment back to the Netherlands and that was it.

Carol, if you look in your 2011 Yearbook you'll see that those who list GZ Cherry are getting about 1-2 oz cherries, and if you look at the listers for Green Zebra you'll see that sizes range from 2 oz up to 7 oz and some say about 2 1/2 inches in diameter.

So, no known relationship at all between GX Cherry and GZ and the tastes are very very different. I'm not a fan of GZ but love GZ cherry b'c is has a much sweeter taste than does GZ.

In addition, the seeds of GZ cherry for several folks, including myself, are much larger than I've ever seen for a cherry tomato.

I don't prune plants so maybe if one does one might get larger fruits, and that's rather well known if plants are pruned to jsut one stem, as Steve did.

My results were based on the original seeds that Reinhard Kraft sent to me that I grew and I did distribute seeds to several places, as I usually do.

Manfred is a good friend of Reinhard's and he's the one who has the seed list which one can access off Reinhard's website, and all there is in German.

I hope that clarifies that GZ and GZ cherry are tow different varieties, in many ways.