Mystery Maters

[kath]

Looking for information about these tomatoes, especially from anyone who may have grown them:

Kentucky Striper? - think this may be an error and should be "Kentucky Striped", but thought I'd ask just in case

Whittaker Oxheart?

Mobil?

Russian Pink Heart? - found a few old threads that mention folks have grown and liked it; one said that it's 2' tall and averages 6 oz. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for anything you may be able to offer.

Kath

[kath]

bump............

[carolyn137]

Kath, what sources have you already used to find out some information about them.

I saw your post asking for information but right now I simply don't have the time to go looking, but when I possibly do have time I don't want to duplicate going to the sources you've already used to research them.

[kath]

Thanks, Carolyn- Tatiana's, Bing, and the search on T'ville. Unless I missed something in those places, or have a misspelling, I was hoping from feedback from those who have grown them, heard about them, etc. The SSE yearbooks are something I can't access, but I don't expect anyone to expend a lot of time searching for me...was just hoping the right people might see the post. Thanks for your help.
Kath

[carolyn137]

Kath, try both Googling and I guess first going to Ventmarin, a site in France ( you can google it as Ventmarin, but it's also known as Passion Tomatoes), blurbs in French but usually not that hard to understand, and many with pictures.

if nothing, please post here and when I do have time I can browse some older Yearbooks.

Why the interest in these specific varieties and where did you lean about them for that might help as well.

[fortyonenorth]

Hi Kath -

Here's what I found at SSE for two of these:

MOBIL
70 days, huge, regular leaf, robust det. plants bearing a great profusion of good sized, bright red perfectly shaped fruits with mild taste, one of the earliest. Hungarian heirloom, Geza Korbely, Hungary

KENTUCKY STRIPED
90 days, indet., regular leaf plant with a good yield of 12-18 oz. yellow and red bi-color fruit with very good flavor. Another member said it was "decent"

[kath]

Thanks, 41N!

The Mobil seed came from Geza via a trade w/ another Tomatovillian, and this is a bit more info than he was given from Geza. The packet says the fruit size is 150 g.

Kentucky "Striper" is probably not a variety, I guess. This was received in a seed swap involving over 100 people and this was all that was on the envelope. If it is Kentucky Striped, there is info about that one that is readily available.

So that leaves "Whitaker Oxheart" which was received in a trade. I inquired about it but didn't get any information about it...a mystery mater.

Also was hoping that someone who has actually grown Russian Pink Heart could tell me a bit more about it than what I was able to find and described in post #1. A 2' heart sounded like an unusual plant.

Trying to whittle down a list that's way too long. These are seeds that I have and I'm not sure they are making the cut.

Tried Ventmarin, Carolyn, but not speaking French and not having much use for pictures at this point, I think it's easier for me just to cross these off the 2011 grow list if no one has grown them. lol

[fortyonenorth]

"JD" (as in JD's Special C-Tex) was J.D. Whitaker of Conroe, TX - I wonder if there's any connection with your heart.

[kath]

Originally Posted by fortyonenorth

"JD" (as in JD's Special C-Tex) was J.D. Whitaker of Conroe, TX - I wonder if there's any connection with your heart.

That's exactly what I wrote in a PM to the person who sent me the seeds, but I guess they just didn't know.
It's also a reason for me to hold on to some hope that it's a good variety because of how much I liked JD's...but I know that's pretty silly.lol

[Full Moon]

I checked ventmarin for you and he has Mobil and Kentucky Striped (no "Striper") listed. I didn't see anything that came close to Whitaker Oxheart. I looked for a few diffferent spellings and found nothing.

He describes Mobil as a semi-determinate (27"-32" high) growing in clusters of six 2" red fruits. Very productive

[kath]

Originally Posted by Full Moon

I checked ventmarin for you and he has Mobil and Kentucky Striped (no "Striper") listed. I didn't see anything that came close to Whitaker Oxheart. I looked for a few diffferent spellings and found nothing.

He describes Mobil as a semi-determinate (27"-32" high) growing in clusters of six 2" red fruits. Very productive

Thanks a lot, Full Moon!
kath

[shlacm]

Hmmmm, I found Kentucky Striper mentioned HERE But I can't actually read the post as I'm not a member.

[kath]

Originally Posted by shlacm

Hmmmm, I found Kentucky Striper mentioned HERE But I can't actually read the post as I'm not a member.

So perhaps there is a tomato with that name, or perhaps someone from this forum took part in a swap and supplied the packet of seeds that I received with an incorrect name...hmmm. May just have to grow this one and see if it matches the description of Kentucky Striped.

Thanks for searching, shlacm.

[OneoftheEarls]

that's Kentucky Stripper kath...but please...please do NOT Google it

[carolyn137]

It's Kentucky Striped as also listed in the SSE YEarbooks.

it's not uncommon for someone to not be able to read the name of a variety on a traded seed pack and/or misspell a variety name and that misspelling goes forward from person to person.There have been several times when i've searched and searched, only to find out that the name was spelled wrong.

So Kentucky Striped it is, which is a typical gold/red bicolor of which there are now probably about 200 named similar ones, some better than others but the ones that have stripe somthing in the name are not refering to distinctive stripes, rather, just the normal reddish/pink blush on the exterior and marbling in the interior, which is what makes them bicolors.

To give you some examples here;s so named striped ones in the SSE Yearbook, all red/gold bicolors:

Striped Cavern
Striped German
Striped Turkish

....... all of which are red/gold bicolors, and I didn't include the ones with Striped as part of the name that really are nor did I include the Brad Gates ones that really are.