Purple Haze F-1 Now Producing Fruit

[rnewste]

Thanks to a kind Forum member, I was sent some of his suckers from plants he got from Laurels, and guess what - - they have taken off like weeds (photo taken today):



The first fruit is now blushing (about golf-ball sized) so it will be interesting to compare taste with my other Purple Haze plants from F-2 seed:




Ray

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Looking very nice Ray!!! Will be interested to hear the taste comparisons.

[captnkirk]

Yes i agree with go big,thems some healthy looking plants you have Ray.

kirk

[rnewste]

go big and kirk,

Thanks, the Purple Haze is one of my Fall crop where I am trialing a new design EarthTainer II, Water-mizer Edition that now has 20% more potting mix and parses out the water in a more controlled basis. I'll be posting the new design as Freeware later this season, once I am certain that I've got all the design parameters optimized and verified.

Cut open my first F-1 tonight and it was quite good. Lots of green gel and seeds and as I recall in a post Morgan made a while back, this is indicative of a good tasting tomato.





Ray

[Raymondo]

Great looking plants Ray. I have a dwarf that I'm keeping going by propagating cuttings so that I can compare subsequent generations. Maybe that's the way to go with Purple Haze so that you'll always have the original to compare the growouts with. Just a thought.

[Medbury Gardens]

Thats a good idea Ray,i could do that with Dizzy F2 as i`m aiming to get two generations this season.

[Vince]

Ray,

I am glad you are getting fruit off those suckers. I killed the other ten I kept for myself!!! However I saved lots of F2 seed and was able to get one cross from the pollen of the clone mother. I thought about asking you to send me back a cutting, but decided it was to late now. Maybe you should try to keep that clone alive through the winter(role it inside at night). If you succeed in doing that, I will definitely ask you for a cutting in the spring. Cheers.

Best,

[rnewste]

Hi Vince,

I'll be happy to return the favor, and send you some suckers!

These two plants are growing like wildfire, and I am planning in late November to take cuttings and try to over-winter, to preserve the F-1 characteristics for 2009 planting.

Ray