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Wow I can't believe I didn't see this till now--congratulations KarenO!!! All your tomatoes look fantastic and I am so happy for you. That was a lot of work but your efforts paid off. Great job.
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Hey Karen, I'm glad to hear you got the next gen going in the new digs!
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F4 of the green/ pink bicolour heart. Potato leaf plant.
I am calling it Sundog aa it showed up as a fluke f3 segregation from the bicolour yellow heart I call midnight sun and its sort of a rainbow effect. Almost tricolour as there is yellow in there too imo. This fruit is very ripe and very sweet but I find that This is one of those tomatoes you can eat quite green if you want to and it tastes good then as well. Very few seeds. Nearly solid about 8 oz. most productive and earliest interestingly of the F4s. Two small locules with a total of about 20 seeds in this fruit. Not a seed collectors dream tomato but usually the later fruits have more KarenO Last edited by KarenO; September 3, 2016 at 08:52 PM. |
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Wowza! Gorgeous doesn't begin to describe that.
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Thanks so much Marsha, this cross is turning out to be all I had hoped for and way more besides.
Soon I will be able to work on the delicious CL cross. There are some amazing F2 beefsteaks to choose from. Also, in my search for hearts exclusively I set aside some beautiful beefsteaks from this one as well. Couple of crosses have given me years and years worth of work ![]() Enjoying the process Karen |
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KarenO, this tomato reminded me the inside colors of some variety of a red plum. It looks so delicious and beautiful, of cause. Great job, as usual.
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Pretty fruit, KarenO.
![]() But did you know I had a selection last year named Sundog? I'm growing the F3 this year and found the one I was looking for - full Beta orange with gf, determinate, so will be growing the F4 out next year for sure. I named it for the radial stripes which look like the sundogs we commonly see here over the water. These are just ripening. |
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Nice one Bower, looks wonderful. I didn't know you had used the name. I can think of something else for this one.
The name doesn't matter too much but the tomato does ![]() Something northern... Ideas folks? KarenO |
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Hmmm I love your northern names... looking at that sweet fruit the long streaks of color remind me of a few northern things... sled trails... or ice fjords where you gaze down into the depths. But I'm just imagining the sun or sunset light falling on them, and I don't know special words for those things.
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The opposite of midnight sun in northern terms is polar night so maybe that is a fun name.
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I think of a dark tomato when I see night. How does BC sunset, or Canadian Sunstreak feel?
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Yum, those "Rainbow Clouds" are as pretty as the tomato for sure!
KarenO, the pink and green also reminds me of those beautiful patches of wildflowers in the tundra in summertime. "River Beauty" is the name of a gorgeous pink one - actually a type of dwarf fireweed, that is important as a food in the far north, as well as a sight to behold. check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamerion_latifolium |
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