chocolate blues

Minnesota Mato · September 18, 2013

Chocolate Blues from Tom Wagner: work in progress, brown/black fruited tomato with a fair amount of blue showing up on the shoulders. It has stripes and are dramatic with the interplay of blue on chocolate. A few of my chocolate blues spoiled on the vine while I waited for them to turn brown/black. I noticed the color change today and they were ripe. Not really what they were supposed to be but they are beautiful!
Craig

**Tom Wagner** · September 18, 2013

Chocolate Blues, Muddy Waters, Blue Green are but a few of my GWR blue shouldered tomatoes with stripes. The earlier versions of some of these started out with with smokey brown flesh but segregated for green flesh.

I have used the first two in lots of crosses this season. Often when I used them as female parents I didn't always get a good hand pollination and the seed set was low causing the locules not to be filled well with seed.

Below is a cut up tomato fruit of Muddy Waters...looks similar to my versions of breeder seed of Chocolate Blues. The pollen used to get seed of this fruit was Green Zebra which makes seed of it an F-1 hybrid and backcross at the same time.

Medbury Gardens · September 18, 2013

Most importantly what's the taste like

Jayc · September 19, 2013

They look lovely Minnesota Mato. Similarly I was surprised to see some GWR types show this year from my saved seed (Although the 3 plants I had last year all had brown/black fruit).

1-083 by jayb 35, on Flickr

Chocolate Blues must be one of my favourite of the 'Antho' tomatoes. Taste overall has been very good with a not too sweet, deep rich 'tomatoey' flavour.

But one of the stand-outs for me was this striped GWR, sweeter than the blacks and tasted gorgeous!

1-059 by jayb 35, on Flickr

September 18, 2013	#3
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	Most importantly what's the taste like __________________ Richard

September 18, 2013	#2
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	Chocolate Blues, Muddy Waters, Blue Green are but a few of my GWR blue shouldered tomatoes with stripes. The earlier versions of some of these started out with with smokey brown flesh but segregated for green flesh. I have used the first two in lots of crosses this season. Often when I used them as female parents I didn't always get a good hand pollination and the seed set was low causing the locules not to be filled well with seed. Below is a cut up tomato fruit of Muddy Waters...looks similar to my versions of breeder seed of Chocolate Blues. The pollen used to get seed of this fruit was Green Zebra which makes seed of it an F-1 hybrid and backcross at the same time.

September 19, 2013	#4
Jayc Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: UK Posts: 319	They look lovely Minnesota Mato. Similarly I was surprised to see some GWR types show this year from my saved seed (Although the 3 plants I had last year all had brown/black fruit). 1-083 by jayb 35, on Flickr Chocolate Blues must be one of my favourite of the 'Antho' tomatoes. Taste overall has been very good with a not too sweet, deep rich 'tomatoey' flavour. But one of the stand-outs for me was this striped GWR, sweeter than the blacks and tasted gorgeous! 1-059 by jayb 35, on Flickr