Re: OSU Blue and Indigo Rose

ChristinaJo · July 15, 2013

I thought I read a post that suggested they were one of the same....

Which if they are, I ordered both and have more seed than I wanted of this variety. Please let me know. Thanks

joseph · July 15, 2013

OSU blue was taken out the breeding program before the university was ready to release it publicly. So while they may be close cousins, I don't think that they are the same. There is likely to be more subtle diversity within the various strains of OSU blue than within Indigo Rose.

DavidP · July 15, 2013

I've grown both and would say that Indigo Rose is more deeply colored than OSU p20 but they are fairly similar in everything else. I can't say I'm that impressed with either but its different so thats good I guess.

ChristinaJo · July 16, 2013

Thanks for the answers. I have never grown them before, so we'll see what happens.

**Tom Wagner** · July 16, 2013

A bit of a rehash, but posts from almost two years ago...

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=20107

I would say that Indigo Rose (P20-3-1) is different from the P20 or OSU Blue that I received several years ago from various people.

I noticed that a lot of my crosses of Indigo Rose to many of my blues have taken...lines that date back to OSU Blue/P20 crosses. I have cooperators down in Portland, OR. that are raving about the ripe blues out of my more recent segregations. I hope to know if flavor modifications are intact. I left them with several growers with numbers only. That way they are not influenced by the name or expectation.

July 15, 2013	#1
ChristinaJo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NE Texas Posts: 425	Re: OSU Blue and Indigo Rose I thought I read a post that suggested they were one of the same.... Which if they are, I ordered both and have more seed than I wanted of this variety. Please let me know. Thanks

July 15, 2013	#2
joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	OSU blue was taken out the breeding program before the university was ready to release it publicly. So while they may be close cousins, I don't think that they are the same. There is likely to be more subtle diversity within the various strains of OSU blue than within Indigo Rose.

July 15, 2013	#3
DavidP Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Riverside, Southern California, USDA 9b, Sunset 19 Posts: 63	I've grown both and would say that Indigo Rose is more deeply colored than OSU p20 but they are fairly similar in everything else. I can't say I'm that impressed with either but its different so thats good I guess.

July 16, 2013	#4
ChristinaJo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NE Texas Posts: 425	Thanks for the answers. I have never grown them before, so we'll see what happens.

July 16, 2013	#5
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	A bit of a rehash, but posts from almost two years ago... http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=20107 I would say that Indigo Rose (P20-3-1) is different from the P20 or OSU Blue that I received several years ago from various people. I noticed that a lot of my crosses of Indigo Rose to many of my blues have taken...lines that date back to OSU Blue/P20 crosses. I have cooperators down in Portland, OR. that are raving about the ripe blues out of my more recent segregations. I hope to know if flavor modifications are intact. I left them with several growers with numbers only. That way they are not influenced by the name or expectation.