grubs mystery green

[Tania]

I have pretty large beefsteak-like fruits on my RL plant. I am waiting for it to ripen to see the color. It set fruit before the real PL GMG, and has more fruits of the plant so far. I am excited.

[kenny_j]

Tania, I picked theo one in the picture several hours after I took the picture. We have had an extreme drought here with less than 1/2 inch rain since early may. Now as my tomatoes are getting close, we have had 2 inches or so in a few days! I went back out to the garden and this beauty was splitting, and it was staring to rain again!! I picked everything that had any color. I am calling this Grubs Mystery Pink. It is potato leaf, and loaded with fruit. The flavor was some what bland from the rain, but what was there was silky sweet. Not intense, not sickening sweet, just pure sweetness. Without even a hint of tartness, so maybe not what you would call balanced or complex in flavor. How much of this was due to water, I don't know. The texture was incredible, smooth and buttery? Melt in your mouth? Brandy wine like in texture, maybe better. I personally like sweet and tart together, so am hoping the rest to come will show some of this, minus the soaking rain that is. I was excited when I saw the pink, and after tasting I will definately save seed and see what develops with further plants. I have 2 more of these that have not blushed yet, excited to see what develops. My wife does not like acidic tomatoes, upsets her stomach and she gets canker sores easily. She helped me sample it, and gives it 2 thumbs up!!
I have to add more about the flavor and texture. It reminded us both of water mellon. Doesn't taste like mellon, and is not as firm or crispy as melon. It is more the consistancy of the sweetness and the consistancy of the texture that is like "watermellon with no seeds in it.. I wished I had looked at it more closely after cutting it in half, but it seemed like it was meaty with plenty of juice, but no large pockets of juice and gel. Like descriptions I have read for hearts ( I have yet to sample a heart, growing several this year). Sorry to go on about this, but I have never tasted a tomato quite like this before.

[kenny_j]

All 4 plants ended up pinks. I did not experience the divine texture after that first fruit, but the flavor did remain the same, mildly sweet with no bite what so ever. Will not save seed on this one. Debbie liked them, but liked the brandywines better, as did I.

[Tania]

I got my first fruit from the RL plant - it ripened to deep green color, both the fruit shape and the size is exactly like my PL Grub's Mystery Green. Very strange! I'd expected it would be a cross, so I was surprised to see it ripening to green. It is almost like it flip flops the leaf type on me.

Have not tasted it yet, but it looks beautiful

[Medbury Gardens]

When i sat down during winter with my trusty tomato seed tin to work out what varieties i was going to grow, i thought well.. ive gota have a green tomato..i just LOVE green tomatoes,in there i saw grubs Mystery Green in a packet that had been sent to me a few years ago and which i hadn't grown since,so me thinking it must have been a green tomato i decided that "well thats the 'green' one for the season".
Then this morning out of interest i thought i'd go and do a search for it to see what it looks like and its red ???

[TightenUp]

i've read about a red tomato popping up from true GMG seeds. there is an old thread on here somewhere about GMG and you will see some people have the red tomato show up on occasion.

did you have a PL plant? how big are the red toms?

[Medbury Gardens]

Oh ok,so its a green when ripe tomato that can throw a red fruit sometimes,is that right??.
Here's my plant as of this morning,remembering we are only 6 days into spring down here,this plant was started at the start of winter inside the house and has been in my tunnelhouse for 5 weeks.

[TightenUp]

if i remember correctly the entire plant will be red tomatoes.

[TightenUp]

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=1182

[salix]

Richard, Grub's Mystery Green is one of my favourite tomatoes - and mine have always produced GREEN (when ripe) fruits. Yummy ones.

[Medbury Gardens]

Well thats interesting,you're saying Willa that you had green tomatoes and TightenUp reckons they are red

[Medbury Gardens]

Originally Posted by TightenUp

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=1182

There's a few people in that thread we haven't heard from for while

[TightenUp]

Originally Posted by Medbury Gardens

Well thats interesting,you're saying Willa that you had green tomatoes and TightenUp reckons they are red

sorry. i didnt mean to say all GMG plants come out red. just a few people have had red ones because the variety wasnt %100 stable. i hope the old thread gives you some answers.

i wasnt a member back then. def some names i dont recognize

[Medbury Gardens]

No worries,i only had a quick scan over that thread,i'll go back and have a good read of it now.

[fantoma]

My favourite tomato so far