Granny's Heart is officially recovered!

[barryla61]

Here's a Grannys Heart that I was sure had herbicide poisoning from some manure we used.
We dug the plant, emptied the pot and cleaned it with bleach and put new media of peat moss and promix back in.
Well after a month it's showing some life. Would not have went to all that trouble except this was my only Grannys Heart plant.

About the small pot around the base - well even after planting deep there were still some "contaminated lookung branches so off they came, this left a long stem so to both stabilize and give more support we cut the bottom out of a planting pot, slit it down the side, placed around the stem and filled it with potting soil.

Plant is now right at 6 ft tall with lots of blooms

First pic is right after replanting, sorry not a great pic.
2nd pic was taken 3 weeks ago.
3rd pic taken yesterday.
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[greyghost]

Your plant really looks great! I grew Granny's Heart from Barkeater's kind offer and was really impressed with the fruits. Huge, cone-shaped red fruits
with a very good, kind of old-fashioned taste-also very juicey for an oxheart.
Well done-I think you'll find it well worth the effort! Darlene

[cloz]

That is Potato Leaf. I believe you got the seeds from me and I was getting PL plants in a germination test I did after I sent you those seeds. I currently have 2 PL plants from the same batch and 5 from seeds from the next generation. I am still trying to figure out how this is possible since I did not save any PL seeds at the time I processed the Granny's Heart seeds. The PL plants I have are producing both beefsteak and blunted heart tomatoes (still waiting for them to ripen) One did ripen and I ate it. It was delicious. It weighed 10.2 ounces. Once I get ripe fruit from all PL plants I will know better what the answer is, but Granny's Heart should be a Regular Leaf plant. I have 8 Granny's Heart RL plants growing so there will be plenty of seed saved.

The sliced tomato is from the PL plant and should be what your tomato will look like. The blushing heart is a Granny's Heart RL I picked yesterday (trying to beat the birds). It weighed 9.8 ounces. Some of my RL plants show tomatoes that are very blunted, almost beefsteak in appearance. Others look like the heart in the picture.

More info to follow once I get ripe fruit to compare.