The Color Black

[Worth1]

I cant count how many people have told me I was stupid for making my own corned beef when I could just buy it at the store.

Then the comments on green when ripe.
Where do they not get it?
They always say fried green tomatoes.
No these are green when ripe not green tomatoes like you would fry.

The Paradigm set forth for tomatoes and many other vegetables like carrots is astounding to say the least.

Red tomatoes orange carrots and nasty sour tasteless oranges.
The blood orange has never caught on here in the US very well.
The name sets people off.
They should call them Sangria (means bleeding in English) oranges instead.
Or maybe du sang. it seems the fancy French words are always catchy here.

Lets just change black to noir that should do it.

Tomates noir.
Or maybe tomaten schwarz German or pomodori nero Italian.
Goth tomatoes would draw in some folks.
Anything but black, black is evil, witches and black cats and it puts people off from the beginning.

Worth

[psa]

The fun part is when they then ask why I don't have any green bell pepper plants for sale.

[Gardeneer]

On The Color Concept :
Actually Black is not a color .
You wonder where/how did they come up with "colored people " !!. everybody is "colored"
When something reflects a certain wave length ( in our visual range ), it has a color. But true black object will not radiate or reflect a wave. JMO

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

On The Color Concept :
Actually Black is not a color .
You wonder where/how did they come up with "colored people " !!. everybody is "colored"
When something reflects a certain wave length ( in our visual range ), it has a color. But true black object will not radiate or reflect a wave. JMO

Nowadays, people call black, white, and grey a neutral color. That is not what I learned in school. The word color wasn't used - they were neutrals. Stuff changes.

I have also wondered why black tomatoes are called black. I've grown blue tomatoes that changed from blue to purple and then almost black. But those are called BLUE tomatoes.

[NarnianGarden]

I'm sure we will see more dark varieties in the near future, from crosses between the antho and the chrolophyll varieties.. The latter would greatly improve the color of the antho, I suppose.

[PhilaGardener]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

On The Color Concept :

When something reflects a certain wave length ( in our visual range ), it has a color. But true black object will not radiate or reflect a wave. JMO

It can be an all absorbing topic!

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by PhilaGardener

It can be an all absorbing topic!

On top of that: COLOR is a perceived thing to us humans and some other species and such does not exist. Color reveals the surface characteristic of given material that reflects certain wave length.
Somehow, we the humans have acquired the system to interpret certain wavelengths in the form of colors

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

On top of that: COLOR is a perceived thing to us humans and some other species and such does not exist. Color reveals the surface characteristic of given material that reflects certain wave length.
Somehow, we the humans have acquired the system to interpret certain wavelengths in the form of colors

The last time I thought of stuff like that was back in the 70's after taking something called Windowpane.

Worth