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Old June 27, 2006   #1
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Default This Is NOT SFT

I put this 4-gallon container out in the street so you can get a good profile view of the plant ... whatever it is ... it's about 4 feet tall and growing like a weed.




For comparison, look at this Silvery Fir Tree growing in the same size container ... it's a stumpy, lumpy, bushy, dwarf thing about 18 inches tall.





The next two pictures are flower trusses on the plant that's not an SFT ... they look kinda like cherry tomato flower trusses don't they?





And here's a little green tomato on the Not SFT plant. It looks like a little grape tomato, huh?




Nothin' like the flowers and fruit on the real SFT ...



So, what the heck is it? I found it in a six-pack of typical RL cherry tomato seedlings at a farm supply store in May. It's been wispier and taller than my three SFTs all along. The stems and foliage are thin and erect, not dense and crumpled like the SFT.

Updates as they happen ...

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Old June 27, 2006   #2
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You've got yourself a really odd item there (I am worried about it standing in the street alone....going to get hit by a car!). Looks like a carrot foliaged indeterminate - some bizarre cross or mutation!

What IS going on - variegation showing up everywhere, all sorts of big striped tomatoes (Brad in CA, are you growing your fields under high tension wires (!!!) - seems like for whatever reason, all sorts of new things are emerging these days!
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Absolutely, Keith - I think that the vastly increased numbers of heirloom enthusiasts and seed savers is leading to an increase in varieties through various mechanisms...(crossing, catching the odd mutation, etc). Pretty cool, actually!
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Old July 28, 2006   #4
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Default Not Silvery Fir Tree ... It's a Cherry ... Updated Photos

Here's a couple more pics to update the Plum (Fir) Tree thingie. The plant is now about 7 feet tall, and I'm startin' to top one growing tip at a time. I wonder how tall it would get if planted in the ground and allowed to grow without pruning.





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PV -

As a thought ...
I had a few fruit come off
my plant just like the ones you've
posted above -
But you're right ...
Most of them looked like this:



oh !!!!
and here is one in the middle, that looks something
like what you got off the same plant ~



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