Disaster!

gardenmermaid · May 9, 2022

Well, I don't quite understand how it happened exactly, but a tray of 24 soil blocks with 5-inch tall beautiful tomato seedlings was dumped upside down with the seedlings piled on top of each other with no way to tell who is who.
The soil cubes were all crumbled up so I potted them up into solo cups. There are five plants that have very distinctive potato- leaves with 3 smaller plants and 2 that are much taller. I think the tall ones are Purple Bumblebee because I had 2 Purple Bumblebees, 1 Ruby Surprise and the rest of the varieties have 3 of each. The remaining varieties are: Mrs Maxwell's Big Italian, Limbaugh Legacy, Curtis Cheek, Arbuznyi, Black Master, German Black, Costeluto Genovese.
I will be researching to find out if there are any differences in leaf shape between these varieties to see if I can try to tell them apart. I don't have enough experience with these varieties to know who is who between the pinks and blacks even when they have fruit. If anyone can give me any hints or tips I would appreciate it. Once they are not wilted I will try to take pictures to see if we can differentiate.

The other issue will be finding a place to grow them as I was only planning on one each of the 9, not 24 and it is hard to give away unlabeled plants since people want to also know what they are growing.
I am also disappointed because some of these were grow outs of old seed to renew my stash but if I can't be 100% sure of the variety I won't be saving the seeds.
I moved about 4 years ago and was planning a big side by side comparison to see what does best here.
Anyway, that is the end of my venting of my disappointment and frustration.
On the bright side, my white and green tomatoes are still separated and labeled so those comparisons will still happen and worse things have happened than having to grow double the tomatoes I was planning on.

May 9, 2022	#1
gardenmermaid Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: In the snowy desert of SE Idaho Posts: 111	Disaster! Well, I don't quite understand how it happened exactly, but a tray of 24 soil blocks with 5-inch tall beautiful tomato seedlings was dumped upside down with the seedlings piled on top of each other with no way to tell who is who. The soil cubes were all crumbled up so I potted them up into solo cups. There are five plants that have very distinctive potato- leaves with 3 smaller plants and 2 that are much taller. I think the tall ones are Purple Bumblebee because I had 2 Purple Bumblebees, 1 Ruby Surprise and the rest of the varieties have 3 of each. The remaining varieties are: Mrs Maxwell's Big Italian, Limbaugh Legacy, Curtis Cheek, Arbuznyi, Black Master, German Black, Costeluto Genovese. I will be researching to find out if there are any differences in leaf shape between these varieties to see if I can try to tell them apart. I don't have enough experience with these varieties to know who is who between the pinks and blacks even when they have fruit. If anyone can give me any hints or tips I would appreciate it. Once they are not wilted I will try to take pictures to see if we can differentiate. The other issue will be finding a place to grow them as I was only planning on one each of the 9, not 24 and it is hard to give away unlabeled plants since people want to also know what they are growing. I am also disappointed because some of these were grow outs of old seed to renew my stash but if I can't be 100% sure of the variety I won't be saving the seeds. I moved about 4 years ago and was planning a big side by side comparison to see what does best here. Anyway, that is the end of my venting of my disappointment and frustration. On the bright side, my white and green tomatoes are still separated and labeled so those comparisons will still happen and worse things have happened than having to grow double the tomatoes I was planning on.