'Hearty' Indian Stripe Hearts???

travis · June 27, 2015

I am back home. My garden is a mess. Monster plants had to be wacked and hacked back into submission. Weeds out of control.

The reason I asked about Indian Stripe Heart origin is that back about 2008, 2009 or so, a lady in Washington State told me she had gotten a heart shaped tomato from Indian Stripe seeds I sent her. I don't remember her name but she went by the nickname BlueLytes.

She sent me some seeds, but they were all unviable. The seeds were tiny and white as if they were either immature or had the seed hulls completely fermented off and only the endoplasm remained.

The seeds I had sent her were saved from Indian Stripe plants grown for two or three years from seeds I got from Victory Seed Co., but back then I did not bag blossoms, so they could've been crossed with who knows what, and I could not fathom a guess at this time.

I do not know who else BlueLytes shared the "heart shaped" seed with, but remember that in the next couple of years some folks did report a repeat of the heart shaped purple fruit.

June 27, 2015	#13
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	I am back home. My garden is a mess. Monster plants had to be wacked and hacked back into submission. Weeds out of control. The reason I asked about Indian Stripe Heart origin is that back about 2008, 2009 or so, a lady in Washington State told me she had gotten a heart shaped tomato from Indian Stripe seeds I sent her. I don't remember her name but she went by the nickname BlueLytes. She sent me some seeds, but they were all unviable. The seeds were tiny and white as if they were either immature or had the seed hulls completely fermented off and only the endoplasm remained. The seeds I had sent her were saved from Indian Stripe plants grown for two or three years from seeds I got from Victory Seed Co., but back then I did not bag blossoms, so they could've been crossed with who knows what, and I could not fathom a guess at this time. I do not know who else BlueLytes shared the "heart shaped" seed with, but remember that in the next couple of years some folks did report a repeat of the heart shaped purple fruit.