Aunt Ruby's German Green - skin color?

[Tania]

What should the skin color of Aunt Ruby's German Green be? Clean or yellow?

Tania

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tania

What should the skin color of Aunt Ruby's German Green be? Clean or yellow?

Tania

Yellow. It has that amber blush with sometimes a pink blush at the blossom end and occasionally a bit in the flesh.

But well I remember the several threads about Green Giant which also has an amber blush when Craig and several others in really warm areas said they never got an amber blush.

Craig sent seeds to me and his friend Jeff in MI and both of us got amber blush. I then asked Reinhard Kraft about it since he introduced it and he said he when grown in his greenhouse it tended not to get am amber blush.

I think the GG situation was another example of temperatures influencing gene expression.

Tania, why are you asking about ARGG? I'm just curious. Are you getting no amber blush? And what color was the membrane epidermis when you tore off a piece and held it to the light and compared it with pink and red fruit epidermises?

Sounds like maybe what Jeff has been going thru with his presumed clear epidermis Green Doctors.

[Tania]

Carolyn,

I grew Aunt Ruby's in 2006, and it had amber blush. I did not check the skin color back then, just assumed it was yellow.

This year I grew Aunt Ruby from a different seed source (actually the seeds were from you, 2005), and I did not get amber blush - but I got some pinkish blush/stripes at the bottom of some fruit (not all fruits), so I figured it was ripe, which it was. I checked the skin and it came out clear. This year it was certainly the best tasting green tomato I ever tried, with the buttery greenish yellow flesh, absolutely wonderful. The color (other than the pinkish blush) was very similar to Green Giant.

Btw, other green varieties I grew this year had the amber blush (just to rule out the environmental factor), but I did grow Aunt Ruby's in a greenhouse, and other green tomatoes were in the open ground. Around the time of maturity, the plastic of the green house was fully rolled up and not closed for weeks, as we had very hot weather here, so, technically, it was just a plastic roof over the plants.

This is why I was asking the question.

here are some pictures (no, I did not take a picture of a skin, but I trust what I observe, and yes, the skin first looked yellow until I cleaned it well from the flesh). Please note that the misshapen fruit is not a typical shape I got, that was a first fruit that I suspected was ripe - actually overripe when I picked it)

Tania

[Tania]

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