For Carolyn: Status of some of the varieties you sent me

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by bigbubbacain

Carolyn:

I'd really like to be part of your seed offering this year. When will the next round of seeds be available?

Bubba

Bubba, as you can see from what I posted and you copied, everything is up in the air this year and I haven't the faintest idea if I will be making a seed offer and if I do I have no idea when I'd do it, as in what month or so.

All I can tell you is that if and when I make an offer it will be very sparse as compared to previous years and it will be posted in the Exchange area under trades, although I don't trade seeds.

[Worth1]

Carolyn

As you know by now I didn't get a chance to plant any of your seeds this year.
But with better record keeping on my part next year and a little luck we will see what your seeds will do for me then.
in Texas that isn't too far away for me.

Only 4 months till seed planting time.
It seems like it was only yesterday that I started seeds for this year.

Worth

[bigbubbacain]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Carolyn

Only 4 months till seed planting time.

Worth

Thanks Worth! I'll now have something good to think about every morning when I wake up

[Alberta]

Carolyn
Those WES tomatoes are huge!!! Also very tasty. Thanks so much for sending them.
Alberta

[carolyn137]

Would someone please consider sending me back some seeds of Wes and Red Penna?

I'm just about out and I do share seeds with some folks who are friends and aren't part of my SSE circle of friends nor are part of my online circle of friends.

I think there are a few other varieties that I'd appreciate having a few seeds back as well but right now I can't tell you what they are and I won't be looking at my seed stocks for a month or two so I'd know which ones were out or almost out.

I used to be able to keep up with seed stock growing, especially for the ones in my book, and now that I can no longer grow hundreds of plants each year I no longer can do that. So I concentrate on mainly brand new varieties sent to me that are new to almost everyone. That is, Freda does it all.

Alberta, glad you liked Wes for it's a real winner in my experience.

At the end of the 2004 season I had lots and lots of seed for Wes, Red Penna and Chapman, but that seed is almost gone now. And those are three of my faves.

[PNW_D]

edited - private email sent

[Alberta]

Carolyn
If you PM me your address (which I had and of course can't find now) I'll send you some WES once I ferment and dry them.
Alberta

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Alberta

Carolyn
If you PM me your address (which I had and of course can't find now) I'll send you some WES once I ferment and dry them.
Alberta

Thanks so much Alberta, will do.

And PNW-D has offered to send some Red Penna Seeds so that's great as well.

I won't know about the few other varieties I really do need a few seeds for but perhaps when I do get a chance to take a look at my stocks it would be best for me to post in the Varieties Wanted Forum.

[elkwc36]

Everything is 4-6 weeks late here. Matt D Imperio is setting very well if the fruit has time to make it before frost. Chapman has started setting also. JD

[montanamato]

Matt D'Imperio was just voted our best so far....What a nice tomato, I can't wait for more...

Jeanne

[MikeH]

Hi Carolyn.

About the end of the season here and I'm including the results of the seed you sent:

VB-Russia-Taste of the first pink fruits were on par with a standard paste type,rather bland.After they got to going tho,nice sweet tomato flavor.Great in salsa!

Akers West Virginia-Wow,a keeper for sure.Pretty low production but wasn't in the best of spots either.I'll repeat next year for sure.

Red Brandywine(RL)-Now I know what everyone has been talking about.Wonderful tomato that is right up there with the best of them!!

Thanks again for sharing with all of us.

[flipt]

Carolyn,

If you're still short on Wes, Red Penna or Chapman - plmk. I have a fairly good amount of all three.

Flip

[dice]

The oddly shaped, oversized fruit on the Dr. Carolyn Pink plant
are actually pink and quite tasty.

(I take it this is crossed. There were few flowers per cluster,
more like a large pink beefsteak than a cherry. Is this
characteristic of Dr. Carolin Pink? RL. If I save seeds, I'll call
it DCBP: Dr. Carolyn Big Pink.)

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by dice

The oddly shaped, oversized fruit on the Dr. Carolyn Pink plant
are actually pink and quite tasty.

(I take it this is crossed. There were few flowers per cluster,
more like a large pink beefsteak than a cherry. Is this
characteristic of Dr. Carolin Pink? RL. If I save seeds, I'll call
it DCBP: Dr. Carolyn Big Pink.)

Ever since I received the seeds from an SSE member there have been two sizes that appear on separate plants.

I save seed from the larger size and get both sizes. I save seeds from the smaller size and get two sizes.

The smaller size is about the size of the fruits of the variety Dr. Carolyn and the fruits of the larger size are like much larger cherries and when it's been a wet season they can even be a bit larger but never the size of a large beefsteak as you mentioned.

So I don't know what you have except it doesn't sound to me like Dr. Carolyn Pink and I don't know the source of your seeds for Dr. Carolyn Pink either. Maybe from me in a seed offer but I've never ever gotten anything resembling a large beefsteak and I can't even rememberif I did offer them in a seed offer.

[dice]

The smaller size is about the size of the fruits of the variety Dr. Carolyn and the fruits of the larger size are like much larger cherries and when it's been a wet season they can even be a bit larger but never the size of a large beefsteak as you mentioned.

So I don't know what you have except it doesn't sound to me like Dr. Carolyn Pink and I don't know the source of your seeds for Dr. Carolyn Pink either. Maybe from me in a seed offer but I've never ever gotten anything resembling a large beefsteak and I can't even rememberif I did offer them in a seed offer.

I did not mean that the fruits were beefsteak-sized. (They were
about the size of 1.5 golf balls, and a couple were boat-shaped,
like a diminutive Brandywine, doubles maybe.) I meant that the
number of flowers per cluster was more like what I see on large
pink beefsteaks than what I typically see on cherry tomato
flower clusters.

Other cherry tomatoes that I have grown tend to have more
flowers per cluster. I have not grown Dr. Carolyn, but I do have
Galina's growing, and it has 2-4 times the number of flowers
per cluster as this plant. So I was wondering if what people
know as Dr. Carolyn Pink tended to show the low flower count
(for a cherry tomato).

(Meaning, is this the big-fruited Dr. Carolyn Pink that has been
mentioned before or a chance cross of Dr. Carolyn Pink with
some unknown pink with low flower count per cluster?)