Identify this variety, please

Cole_Robbie · July 24, 2016

I posted my grow list here: http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....&postcount=158

It's a long list, but at least this is a multiple choice question.

I'm at a loss to identify this variety. It's a dark tomato with a unique blotchy pattern to it.

Tracydr · July 24, 2016

Looks like a stink bug tomato. They make weird blotches like that.

UFXEFU · July 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I posted my grow list here: http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....&postcount=158

It's a long list, but at least this is a multiple choice question.

I'm at a loss to identify this variety. It's a dark tomato with a unique blotchy pattern to it.

What did you think you were planting? That may help to figure out what you have in hand.

Cole_Robbie · July 24, 2016

It could be. There are no white spots in the inside, though. It could be whiteflies, too.

Here are a couple more pics:

**carolyn137** · July 24, 2016

Is that the only variety you are growing that looks like that right now and I ask since I went through your list didn't see anything that rang any bells and wanted to suggest the tomato condition called Blotchy Ripening,

First,the photos and photography is always an issue.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...30.ZdQJnDAuwQM

And now the links

https://www.google.com/#q=blotchy+ri...tomatoes&hl=en

Carolyn

Cole_Robbie · July 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by UFXEFU

What did you think you were planting? That may help to figure out what you have in hand.

I pared down my original list. These are all tomatoes I have never grown before. It's one of these:
Andizhansky
Arkasin
Aroma
Atkinson
Banskia Queen
Batjanja
Beauty Mark
Bedouin
Benissoui Nante
Black Magic
Chernomor
Chocolate Champion
Da Chilo
Dagestansky
Daniel Burson
Dagestansky
Desert Rose
Elgin Pink
Everett’s Rusty Ox Heart
Firesteel
Flora-dade
Giant Willie
Gigant-10 Novikova
Glasnost
Highlander Pink
Honey Giant
Kazachka
Koskioso Verte
Leningradsky Skorospelyi
Li Cun
Mandarinka
Master Carnosa
Midnight in Moscow
Napa Rose
Negrillo de Almoguera
Nepal
Nicholas Duchov
Novosadsky Jabucher
Paul Robeson PL (unstable)
Peramoga 165
Pink Rose
Pink Titan
Polish Favorite
Porter
Remy Rouge
Russian
Russian Apple Tree
Russian Bull’s Heart
Shaker Village
Sosulka Rosoveya
Southern Nights
Spudakee
Taimyr
Terhune
Vorlon
Wild Rose
Willard Wynn
Wine Jug
Zigan

Cole_Robbie · July 24, 2016

Yeah, it's the only one that looks that way. I know stink bug bites, and I'm pretty good at seeing whitefly damage given my recent practice at it, and those don't seem to be the issue. The odd ripening certainly could be from environmental stress of some sort. It tasted good, though

I will grow it again even if I don't know for sure what it is.

ginger2778 · July 24, 2016

Whitefly damage causes uneven internal ripening, you just get lots of the tomato that never ripens, and it gives a hardness to the flesh, like it has a huge core. I know about this personally.
It does look like what you have on the outside though.

**carolyn137** · July 24, 2016

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Yeah, it's the only one that looks that way. I know stink bug bites, and I'm pretty good at seeing whitefly damage given my recent practice at it, and those don't seem to be the issue. The odd ripening certainly could be from environmental stress of some sort. It tasted good, though

I will grow it again even if I don't know for sure what it is.

And when you grow it again,be sure to save seeds from the blotchy one and see what it does in a different season.

Different varieties can be susceptible to different "stuff"in different years is perhaps the best way I can put it.

Carolyn

Gerardo · August 21, 2016

The blotch/uneven ripeness should penetrate into the core if it's whitefly damage. We all love the feeling of slicing into one and seeing the island of nothing.

What variety is this????? Holodeck Cherry?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garden-20-Se...4AAOSwoydWtB1y

July 24, 2016	#5
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Is that the only variety you are growing that looks like that right now and I ask since I went through your list didn't see anything that rang any bells and wanted to suggest the tomato condition called Blotchy Ripening, First,the photos and photography is always an issue. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...30.ZdQJnDAuwQM And now the links https://www.google.com/#q=blotchy+ri...tomatoes&hl=en Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

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Gerardo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: San Diego-Tijuana Posts: 2,598	The blotch/uneven ripeness should penetrate into the core if it's whitefly damage. We all love the feeling of slicing into one and seeing the island of nothing. What variety is this????? Holodeck Cherry? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garden-20-Se...4AAOSwoydWtB1y Last edited by Gerardo; August 21, 2016 at 12:38 AM.

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Tracydr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7 Posts: 3,207	Looks like a stink bug tomato. They make weird blotches like that.

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Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Yeah, it's the only one that looks that way. I know stink bug bites, and I'm pretty good at seeing whitefly damage given my recent practice at it, and those don't seem to be the issue. The odd ripening certainly could be from environmental stress of some sort. It tasted good, though I will grow it again even if I don't know for sure what it is.

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ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	Whitefly damage causes uneven internal ripening, you just get lots of the tomato that never ripens, and it gives a hardness to the flesh, like it has a huge core. I know about this personally. It does look like what you have on the outside though.