KBX or Kellogg'd Breakfast - Page 2

b54red · May 25, 2015

I always had much better luck with KBX than with KB. I have never had gray mold on a KBX plant even when it was right next to a black tomato riddled with the stuff. Roper I think you may need to prune a little on some of your potato leaf plants to allow more air flow particularly down low. I fight gray mold every year and it is almost always on black or GWR tomato varieties most of which are regular leaf. I haven't seen any real difference in leaf type affecting gray mold.

Bill

Bill

Gardeneer · May 26, 2015

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Originally Posted by roper2008

Unfortunately I cannot grow anymore PL plants. It's a shame because some varieties
I wanted to try only come PL. I use to be able to grow them, but last 3 years all of
them got grey mold. I think it is the oddest thing that only my PL plants get it and
not the RL. I can still grow KB though.

Thanks Roper
So your experience confirms my observation about PL being prone to grey mold.

For the same reason I picked KB over KBX.

ScottinAtlanta · May 26, 2015

KBX all the way here in Atlanta. KB want down too fast. KBX goes all season, keep picking off the yellow leaves, and it will muscle its way through 6 months of production.

I went from 2 KBX last year to 5 this year - no one can get enough of them.

Mushimi · May 28, 2015

This year at a local store, I picked up a packet labelled Kellogg's Beefsteak. Anyone know anything about it and if/how it relates to either KB or KBX? I haven't been able to find any sort of information online. I have a nice one growing though, with a couple of huge green beefsteaks on it so far and am very curious about it.

**carolyn137** · May 28, 2015

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Originally Posted by Mushimi

This year at a local store, I picked up a packet labelled Kellogg's Beefsteak. Anyone know anything about it and if/how it relates to either KB or KBX? I haven't been able to find any sort of information online. I have a nice one growing though, with a couple of huge green beefsteaks on it so far and am very curious about it.

Here is a thread from several years ago about Kellogg's Beefsteak

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=17201

And if you Google Kellogg's Beefsteak you'll find a couple of places listing it.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...efsteak+tomato

No such thing as a Kellogg's Beefsteak, it's Kellogg's Breakfast all the way.

And just b/c I'm curious what was the seed company name on your seed pack that distributed the seeds. it might match up with one of the places I saw with my Google search, link above.

There are some really bad places that give wrong descriptions, wrong names and wrong histories and wrong pictures. I just went through this kind of badness with someone here last week.

Carolyn

Mushimi · May 28, 2015

Thanks for the info Carolyn, you have satisfied my curiosity, and I can't wait to try my generic label Kellogg's Breakfast

Here's a scan of the actual seed packet, bought from my local feed store:

**carolyn137** · May 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by Mushimi

Thanks for the info Carolyn, you have satisfied my curiosity, and I can't wait to try my generic label Kellogg's Breakfast

Here's a scan of the actual seed packet, bought from my local feed store:

NK is Northrup King seeds, they don't sell directly to the public but do have racks of seeds in stores and also supply places like Gurneys, Fields and the like.

They were recenty bought out by Syngenta which is a large world wide company that's very involved in hybrid corn and soybeans and the like, some GMO's, and NK helps with development with those kind of seeds.

I gave you the Google search link so you know that other places are also selling seeds for what they call Kellogg's Beefsteak, I don't know who first got that wrong, but what you have is KB, not KBX.

Carolyn

AlittleSalt · May 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by carolyn137

NK is Northrup King seeds, they don't sell directly to the public but do have racks of seeds in stores and also supply places like Gurneys, Fields and the like.

They were recenty bought out by Syngenta which is a large world wide company that's very involved in hybrid corn and soybeans and the like, some GMO's, and NK helps with development with those kind of seeds.

I gave you the Google search link so you know that other places are also selling seeds for what they call Kellogg's Beefsteak, I don't know who first got that wrong, but what you have is KB, not KBX.

Carolyn

Carolyn, thank you for posting this. I learned a lot.

Mushimi · May 29, 2015

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Carolyn, thank you for posting this. I learned a lot.

Me too! Thank you for all of that information, Carolyn.

May 25, 2015	#16
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I always had much better luck with KBX than with KB. I have never had gray mold on a KBX plant even when it was right next to a black tomato riddled with the stuff. Roper I think you may need to prune a little on some of your potato leaf plants to allow more air flow particularly down low. I fight gray mold every year and it is almost always on black or GWR tomato varieties most of which are regular leaf. I haven't seen any real difference in leaf type affecting gray mold. Bill Bill

May 26, 2015	#18
ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	KBX all the way here in Atlanta. KB want down too fast. KBX goes all season, keep picking off the yellow leaves, and it will muscle its way through 6 months of production. I went from 2 KBX last year to 5 this year - no one can get enough of them.

May 28, 2015	#19
Mushimi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: San Diego County Posts: 22	This year at a local store, I picked up a packet labelled Kellogg's Beefsteak. Anyone know anything about it and if/how it relates to either KB or KBX? I haven't been able to find any sort of information online. I have a nice one growing though, with a couple of huge green beefsteaks on it so far and am very curious about it.