Dr Carolyn, a question.

[Dr_Redwine]

I hope this post finds you well. I think of you often and hope you recover better than ever.

Now on to my question. Do you remember if all of the sliced tomatoes in your book were sliced at or near the equator of the fruit?

The reason I ask is that the cross-sections of my Red Brandywines look like the iron cross of German military fame. The one in your book looks much meatier than what we're getting.

Inquiring minds and all...
DrR

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Dr_Redwine

Now on to my question. Do you remember if all of the sliced tomatoes in your book were sliced at or near the equator of the fruit?

The reason I ask is that the cross-sections of my Red Brandywines look like the iron cross of German military fame. The one in your book looks much meatier than what we're getting.

Inquiring minds and all...
DrR

Yes, they were all cut by Frank, the photographer, and he tried to cut all of them at the equator so that it would be easy to see the seed locule spaces as compared with flesh.

Are you doubting that you have RB based on a cross section?

[travis]

Here is a photo of a sliced Red Brandywine from Victory Seeds:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/...ne_red_doc.jpg

When you say the cross section looks like a Maltese Cross, I assume you mean more like this photo of Cardinal from Victory Seeds:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/...s/cardinal.jpg

PV

[JerryL]

Here is a picture of a Red Brandywine I grew from seed received from Carolyn.

[matermama]

aaaaaaaahhhhhhh................................... ................................ouch, woops i felt a bit faint and fell off my chair after i saw all these great pics of tomato. :wink:
sue

[Dr_Redwine]

Carolyn:
Yes, the cross sections of all of these tomatoes don't match the one shown in your book. The taste is not spectacular either, but they are good. Everything else matches your written description. Having never grown a lot of these OPs before, I really am at the mercy of the seed sources.

Papa Vic:
Mine look like the bottom linked photo. I may just have myself a Cardinal. Every one of them look exactly like that. They are also a little more toward the orange side of color than red, as well.

JerryL:
Mine don't look like that, but that's what I want.

Thanks folks,
DrR

[carolyn137]

Mine don't look like that, but that's what I want.

What was your seed source?

Carolyn

[Gimme3]

Dont want to muddy this water, but DO wanna say it's fine question, that prompted me to ponder the cross-sectional view as a good means of identification. An i also, now so armed w/this good info, am gonna be payin close attention to the cross-sectional traits, of these Buck's county Hybrids, which..the first of..aughta start comin in...in the next week or 2. Great question, Great answers...)))
i got another Question for you..Dr. C...)))but wont mess up this thread w/it, . ...Amazing....also..the Cardinal Plant's near perfect...Iron Cross.

[Dr_Redwine]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Mine don't look like that, but that's what I want.

What was your seed source?

Carolyn

Those came from Victory. I had good luck on the others ordered from them and was really impressed with their prompt service. Whether or not they had a mix-up or I had one won't keep me from ordering from them again.

I guess I really should have asked my question this way: Is the cross-section of the fruit a viable way to identify a variety or do they vary?

DrR

[Dr_Redwine]

Gimme3:
We're all family here as far as I'm concerned...I don't mind one bit if you fire in a question on this thread.

DrR