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Old January 2, 2012   #16
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Others were very much your typical heart shape and my seed was from Barkeater.
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Old January 2, 2012   #17
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Others were very much your typical heart shape and my seed was from Barkeater.
I was just going to ask you your seed source and Bark was my seed source as well, and this is a cut and paste from the first paragraph of his seed offer:

(I have saved seed for Granny's Heart available for a SASE (no trades). It is a 50+ year old family heirloom from SE Pennsylvania. In the family it was always just known as Granny's Tomato, and her grandaughter says Granny purposely crossed a beefsteak and a plum tomato and got this excellent tasting red heart. Request as follows

So Barkeater says red heart.

I had one plant here at home and it definitely gave wonderful red hearts, and not blunt ones either.

Shoe in NC did the seed production for me and what he got from several plants were also well formed red hearts.

I've SSE listed it for 2012 and also will be offering it in my upcoming seed offer.
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Here you can see some Granny's Hearts while they were on the vine. The lower left one looks more blunted than the rest while the others look more typical.
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Maybe someone else who has grow Granny's Heart from Barkeater's seeds can comment on the leaf shapes in that picture.
Are those typical of Granny's Heart? Or is it one of those hearts that has more wispy foliage?
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Plants were very strong and not wispy at all like Anna Russian (which I also grew this year)
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Maybe someone else who has grow Granny's Heart from Barkeater's seeds can comment on the leaf shapes in that picture.
Are those typical of Granny's Heart? Or is it one of those hearts that has more wispy foliage?
It's RL but not as droopy/wispy as most hearts are. I have Freda bring me in obviously not just fruits but also foliage so I can look at it myself. And she knows by now what's wispy droopy which Granny's Heart is not.

There are other hearts that I've grown that aren't wispy leaved droopy either, but please don't push me for variety names right now b'c I'm not having a very good day.
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