the blue mystery

[travis]

Originally Posted by TomatoDon

I'm not sure which category, but this thread is fast becoming a Hall of Famer. A tomato called a blueberry from a variety that doesn't exist, that doesn't have seeds, but does have nipples and defies gravity by floating in thin air, and we have pictures to prove it. This is more rare than the tomato Mark Feron grew under a snow drift in a Wall Of Water that resembled Bigfoot.

And just when I think I've seen it all...

Neither this thread nor any other wacky thread ever beat Bully's Barbie House Giant Tomato thread of yesteryear

[TomatoDon]

Then, kind sir, you must post the link!

And I can't leave out the quote by Fusion: "There is indeed a variety floating around with the moniker Blueberry..." And it seems to be floating around here too!

[remy]

I received seeds from a tomato seed collector for Blueberry, and he told me as far as he was concerned it was pretty much the same as OSU Blue having grown them both as DarJones wrote. Being that OSU Blue was not genetically stable when seeds were originally distributed, I've assume that Blueberry was someone's seed saving work to get a more stable variety from it.

Tomatodon,
about the floating. It is pretty amazing.
Remy

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by remy

I received seeds from a tomato seed collector for Blueberry, and he told me as far as he was concerned it was pretty much the same as OSU Blue having grown them both as DarJones wrote. Being that OSU Blue was not genetically stable when seeds were originally distributed, I've assume that Blueberry was someone's seed saving work to get a more stable variety from it.

Tomatodon,
about the floating. It is pretty amazing.
Remy

And you'd be wrong if you assumed that Blueberry was someones seed saving work to get a more stable variety.

At the time the OSU Blue seeds got loose in the human population there were the reports from England about their GMO one with the inserted gene for anthocyanin from a Blueberry.

And someone got the two mixed up and referred to the OSU one as Blueberry, which was wrong, but has led to the present day confusion by many folks.

No seeds for the English Blueberry one have EVER been released, or stolen out the back door, or floated in the air or swam the pond.

And same goes for the one that the Italians developed and pictures have been shown on the net.

[remy]

Carolyn,
I think you misunderstood me.
I'm saying it has nothing to do with the GMO Blueberry. It is instead a name given to a saved seed form of OSU Blue. The OSU Blue seeds got loose a few years back. Then a couple years ago a variety named Blueberry(NOT the GMO one) appeared. From people who have grown it, it seems to be a saved, probably trying to be more stable, version of OSU Blue. The person who named it, I'm going to assume had no clue there was a GMO tomato with the same exact name. Sort of like me naming a tomato Remy and then finding out there is a tomato with the name Remy in France.
I hope I'm clearer,
Remy

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by remy

Carolyn,
I think you misunderstood me.
I'm saying it has nothing to do with the GMO Blueberry. It is instead a name given to a saved seed form of OSU Blue. The OSU Blue seeds got loose a few years back. Then a couple years ago a variety named Blueberry(NOT the GMO one) appeared. From people who have grown it, it seems to be a saved, probably trying to be more stable, version of OSU Blue. The person who named it, I'm going to assume had no clue there was a GMO tomato with the same exact name. Sort of like me naming a tomato Remy and then finding out there is a tomato with the name Remy in France.
I hope I'm clearer,
Remy

I guess I did misunderstand you b'c I've never known of a specific variety called Blueberry that wasn't the GMO one from England.

Do you know what the source of the one called Blueberry that isn't the GMO one is? Lousy sentence.

In the Yearbook there's one just called Blue, 3-5 ounces that has been listed for several years and still is listed and is from Estonia and was first listed by SSE itself in 1999.

Blaufrucht, aka Blue Fruit is totally different so doesn't need to be discussed here.

And the only two that Tania lists are Blue and Blue Fruit.

And I've never seen a variety called BLueberry listed in the Yearbook, not that the yearbook is THE authoritative place for all varieties but usually something novel does show up there.

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by travis

Neither this thread nor any other wacky thread ever beat Bully's Barbie House Giant Tomato thread of yesteryear

I couldn't find Bully's thread.
But, I did find a related one...

www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=6333

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tormato

I couldn't find Bully's thread.
But, I did find a related one...

www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=6333

OK, you posted the Barbie one and here's the Bullmato, aka Sad Sac one posted by Bully that was referred to in the Barbie thread:

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...light=bullmato

[TomatoDon]

That was a hoot! I wish I could photoshop an imagine of Barbie looking at a floating blueberry tomato!

[travis]

Bullmato Revisited: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...255227355.html

[TomatoDon]

BullMato is great! I loved the "rolling" pin scene when Mrs. Bully caught Mr. Bully coming in late that night! Pure cinematic greatness.

And while we're at it with floating blueberry tomatoes, Barbie House giant tomatoes, and 8 pound BullMatos, here's the MarkFeron snow-grown Bigfoot tomato link:

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...hlight=Bigfoot

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by TomatoDon

BullMato is great! I loved the "rolling" pin scene when Mrs. Bully caught Mr. Bully coming in late that night! Pure cinematic greatness.

And while we're at it with floating blueberry tomatoes, Barbie House giant tomatoes, and 8 pound BullMatos, here's the MarkFeron snow-grown Bigfoot tomato link:

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...hlight=Bigfoot

I ask, is Mark Feron, aka at least 12 aliases, still cluck clucking around somewhere?

[TomatoDon]

I wish I knew Carolyn. I think he got canned here before he could reply to the last post in the Great Snow Bank Wall Of Water Tomato test. Did he once say he was starting his own tomato site?

Oh...btw...you seem especially interested in the Chapman variety. I grew some this year and they are doing fine.

DS

[carolyn137]

(this file is of the varieties names only the data file is is over 209
pages in word or excel when completed enjoy. this copy is text for
simple down loading.

chickenman2)

Just for the old time memories, the above was an e-mail sent to me by the infamous MF back in I think 2007 and was the last of a series of 6 e-mails he sent to me with downloads with Gordon Graham's treatise on HOW to grow LARGE tomatoes.

I did not download it.

The last e-mail he sent to me invited me to take part in a little tomato project he was doing, this also in 2007.

I politely declined.

[BigdaddyJ]