larger indigo rose

[bejustice]

indigo rose is averaging 2 ounce sized tomatoes. I have one plant out of 600 producing larger tomatoes. This one is 4 ounces. I have the plant flagged and plan to save some seeds.

[WhippoorwillG]

That looks closer to what I got out of OSU Blue. This is my second year of indigo rose and first for osu blue.

Best of luck with your larger fruit.....and wow, 600 plants of indigo rose.


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[Eirik]

That is quite the beauty! Would you say indigo rose is earlier than other blues? And those seeds you are saving are probably gonna be awesome!

[bejustice]

This is the first blue I have ever grown. They are a little earlier than our reds, but I think it is because they are smaller. Everything is a little later this year. They put on a lot of tomatoes. They have an interesting taste. It is not bad, but different and difficult to describe. I think they would sell in bigger urban farmers markets. With a couple other interesting blues they may sell commercially if they were well packaged, maybe like stop light peppers or Kumatos, but it seems kind of risky.

[WhippoorwillG]

In my climate, Indigo Rose is very slow to ripen. I was harvesting all but large late season slicers before the first IR was ready. In contrast, the first few OSU Blues came in almost three weeks earlier.

However, if you are looking for that completely black tomato with an almost entire covering of the antho, I have found nothing to beat the IR. I am still looking forward to some truly delicious fruits that express the antho in a big way.

[bejustice]

We planted our IRs with our cherries early, second week of April, before our larger tomatoes. IR was the last to start ripening amongst the cherries, and our reds are late this season. I think IR would fit nicely in 3" LDPE tubing with a cardboard tray and move at a WF type supermarket. Mixed cherries may be the easiest way for me to get some of the new blue varieties out there. I bought some of the Clackamas seeds. I need to order some Helsing. Which one cracks less? IR cracks a little around the top for me, not too bad, on the first ones off. The plants are loaded, not really a problem. It is getting late to grow out for seed.

I thought OSU and IR were more or less the same. Has anyone grown Black Galaxy? Who was the first out with the antho varieties?

[bejustice]

Here is another picture. The first pick through was evenly sized.