Has anyone grown...

[janezee]

..Slava

Whippersnapper

Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe

Millefleur


Comments, please. I have 2, am curious about all. I need to decide! Thanks for your time and consideration.

jane

[Jeannine Anne]

Whippersnapper is a regular for me, it replaced Tumbler in hanging baskets. Early, pink and very prolific. I always used to start a couple of Tumblers which got the season off but the seeds were expensive and hybrids,Whippersnapper is a great one in it's place. Taste is very good. I have spare seeds if you need a few.

I have also grown millefleur which seemed to take over the greenhouse if I remember right but it was not a regular and does not stand out in my mind. I may still have seeds for that one..not sure.

XX Jeannine

[Tania]

I grew Fruhe Liebe and I like it - http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...%C3%BChe_Liebe

[salix]

Another thumbs up for Whippersnapper - does very well in pots, prolific, early and tasty.

[janezee]

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that about Whippersnapper and Tumbler. My mom so enjoyed having Tumbler in July, and we miss it. She's more than happy with SunSugar, though. She honestly said to me, "Just grow these. I don't even know why you try any others."
Whew, she just doesn't get it, at all!


j, who went from 10 to 60 varieties in 3 months, and counting. (Thanks to all that helped!)

[janezee]

Tania,

Thanks for that, too. I think you'll be hearing from me soon. That's just in time to make it into my order with the others!

and Jeannine,
I'm glad to hear that about the millefleur, too. I think that one might wait, because I just got Wild Sweetie from Carolyn, and I don't want both taking over the place. Don't currants cross too easily, too?

j

[Jeannine Anne]

Tatiana has open pollinated the Tumbler, she calls is Anmore Treasure and a pink version is Anmore Dewdrop..would also suggest very much you consider these from her.

XX Jeannine

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by janezee

Tania,

Thanks for that, too. I think you'll be hearing from me soon. That's just in time to make it into my order with the others!

and Jeannine,
I'm glad to hear that about the millefleur, too. I think that one might wait, because I just got Wild Sweetie from Carolyn, and I don't want both taking over the place. Don't currants cross too easily, too?

j

I think if you look at my seed offer you'll see that I said that Wild Sweetie has currant sized fruits, but is not a currant.

it used to be thought that all currant types had stigma's that stick way out so that they had to be pollinated by insects, but with time it's been found that maybe only half of them have that exerted stigma.

Someone I know who is an expert tomato geneticist says he's far more worried about his regular tomatoes X pollinting his currants than the reverse.

Matt's Wild, if you go to Johnny's to read, they introduced it, says it'a cerasiforme, which means that it's a half domesticated cherry tomato and the stigma is retracted.

My own favorite of the wee fruited ones is Sara's Galapagos, which I've been offering in seed offers here until I think last year. It's a genetically stable interspecies cross between a currant and something else not known, which was told to me by Dr Chatelet at the Rick Center at UC Davis, otherwise known as the TGRC.