Blush Tomatoes

[WhippoorwillG]

Originally Posted by Tom Wagner

Mark, at least you were able to get striped, red, brown, orange, and yellow. You drew the short stick not getting a green and a bi-color. Sometimes, eight is not enough. Did you save any seed...any faves?

Sometime ago someone asked me about the spelling and how the name was to be pronounced.
Mamognahela Epidote
Mah-MOW-gnah-hela EP-i-dote
mamó = grandma / pron. [mah-mow]Gaelic
gna hela Nordic
Epidote…a many colored crystal like mineral

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Here is a funny video on trying to pronounce Manongahela as in the river in Pennsylvania. I remember picking up some colorful river stones out of that river back in 1971..many colors....and getting all confused on how to say that name.

Mah-non-gah-hela!

I like to play around with names and spellings...duh...look at this...

With the unique spelling, google tried to argue with me when I tried to see what others were getting from this cross. :banghead:

Poor picture, but this gives you an idea of the variation:


And an even worse picture of the stripes. They were much more pronounced early on.


I did however save seeds from all but the red one. It had a strange flavor/odor of fresh beef. There are a variety, some of which I find unique, so I will be working them heavily next year to work toward something unique. Tom, Kinda wierd saying this to you, but if you want/need seeds for this, pm me an addy. I am very happy with them. They don't yield huge, but the plamts are consistant and hardy.

And so I'm not totally redirecting the conversation, this pic contains Blush, Maglia Rosa (bottom left), purple bumblebee (top center), and the earliest Mamognahela (brown with green shiulders directly above blush)
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[WhippoorwillG]

Left the pic out:


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[Tom Wagner]

A riot of color. Thanks

[Stowaway]

I relocated across country quickly and unexpectedly in June, leaving eighteen tomato plants behind. Last week my brother was kind enough to spend $25 shipping a bunch of them to me. Unfortunately, he put a couple of fully ripe tomatoes in the box, and it took eight days for them to get to me, so most of them weren't suitable for anything but sauce by the time they arrived. I was able to eat a couple of Blushes, and I was floored by how sweet and flavorful they were. The sauce I made was about 1/4 Blush, and everyone who tasted it thought I'd put honey in it. It was just on the right side of the border to too sweet territory.

It really is a tomato you should feel proud of, Fred.

[Fred Hempel]

Thanks Stowaway.

I agree that Blush is great, and it was not the only really good tomato to come out of the original cross (my son's). The other one was "Taste"

This summer I went back to the original packet of F2 seed, and I have planted about 100 feet (maybe 30 plants) in the field. Partly for historical reasons, as it was the first really successful cross we made where almost everything tasted excellent. Partly because I am curious to see what we might have missed! I weeded the tomatoes yesterday, and there was a "taste"-like plant. The others have yet to produce ripe fruit.