Mostly Mystery swap questions

[Tormato]

This thread will be for questions about varieties received, and any other questions. I'll start it off.

Many of you will receive...

"Blue Suede-uth Shoes" F1 (RL)

...and would likely have questions about it.

It's a small/medium red globe with dark purple to black shoulders.

This is what I believe is a natural cross of OSU Blue and Brandywine Sudduth, from my garden in 2011. I'm estimating I saved about seven tomatoes, so maybe 1 in 7 will be RL, and the rest PL (Brandywine Sudduth). That's if no other crossing took place.

I know what Brandywine tastes like. I don't know what a suede shoes tastes like. In my garden, it was a toss-up as to which it more resembled in flavor. But then, red tomatoes are usually lousy tasting, from my garden.

I also have F2 and F3 seed, not sent in the swap.

Dr. Lve Apple

[tlintx]

Ok, dumb question time. I sent some of the same type in multiples of ten, and as many of the wishlist types as I could find in my stash. What was I supposed to request? "Send me whatever, I prefer reds and canners and pinks and dwarfs" seems like it's putting a lot of the onus on you! Am I over thinking this? Am I also super excited to see what shows up? HECK yes!

[Tormato]

I'll look through your wish list sheet tonight. If I remember correctly, you've been "sponsored" in the Cherry/Grape category (twice). That would mean getting ~20 different cherry and grape varieties back, for starters.

Gary

[Tormato]

Black and Red Boar...a striped?, a bi-color?, or both?

I need to find out, and then get back to the donor on whether they want Striped category, or Yellow/Gold/Orange/Bi-color/White category varieties, or both.

[green_go]

Gary,
Black and Red boar is striped (orange and green stripes, not black and red ), but the flesh is not bi-colored. I would gladly accept tomatoes from both categories (striped + bi-color/yellow/orange)
Here is the picture of one of my Black and Red Boar tomatoes:

[bluebonnets]

That's gorgeous!!

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by tlintx

Ok, dumb question time. I sent some of the same type in multiples of ten, and as many of the wishlist types as I could find in my stash. What was I supposed to request? "Send me whatever, I prefer reds and canners and pinks and dwarfs" seems like it's putting a lot of the onus on you! Am I over thinking this? Am I also super excited to see what shows up? HECK yes!

I don't see a "specific variety" wish list, just specific category types.

If you'd like, you still have time to PM me a wish list of 10, or so, varieties.

For now it looks like I'll be sending back...

~25 pinks
~20 hearts
~20 cherries
~15 paste/canners (these might be mostly paste types)
~10 dwarf/determinate
~5 blacks
~5 striped
~5 y/g/o/bc/w
4 hot weather
3 greens
2 blues





























...and a partridge in a pear tree.

[newatthiskat]

I will take the pear tree LOL. This freeze will probably get mine :-(

[tlintx]

Our printer broke about four minutes before I went upstairs to print my lovely letter to you, my toddler was chewing on my hair, and my "sure I'll drop that off at the post office for you as you seem to have enough troubles right now" person was tapping her foot impatiently. Can't understand how I forgot to write down my top three or so.

I will PM you ASAP.

(I'm starting to get ridiculously excited about the pinks. Is it just me or are they creeping up in popularity lately?)

[Tormato]

Bumping to the top, because the questions have begun.

[tnpeppers]

Then I will move my last swap question over here...I had three varieties I was having trouble identifying, but that has been reduced to one: I have a batch of seeds in a 2 x 2 packet that seems to have been made from a page from a very colorful bean catalog...the seeds are labeled 'Tomato URI 2013.' Any ideas?

[ChilliJez]

Please excuse if this is not the best place but I can't see where elsle to post so...

Thank You!

My parcel arrived yesterday but I postponed opening it 'till this evening like a kid waiting for Christmas morning.

And today as I looked through the treats you've sent I feel like a 7 year old with the coolest thing to have. A diamond fellow Gary for organising and a lovely community here for sharing. Thank you all.

I now have a project just discovering the potential of these new varieties. Happy days.

[rwsacto]

Originally Posted by ChilliJez

Please excuse if this is not the best place but I can't see where elsle to post so...

Thank You!

My parcel arrived yesterday but I postponed opening it 'till this evening like a kid waiting for Christmas morning.

And today as I looked through the treats you've sent I feel like a 7 year old with the coolest thing to have. A diamond fellow Gary for organising and a lovely community here for sharing. Thank you all.

I now have a project just discovering the potential of these new varieties. Happy days.

Ditto
Holy Moly! I don't have enough trays to start just one of each type. Now to research and prioritize.

Great job and thanks Gary,

Rick

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by tnpeppers

Then I will move my last swap question over here...I had three varieties I was having trouble identifying, but that has been reduced to one: I have a batch of seeds in a 2 x 2 packet that seems to have been made from a page from a very colorful bean catalog...the seeds are labeled 'Tomato URI 2013.' Any ideas?

Someone asked the same question in that other thread.

All I can find at Google is the following:

https://www.google.com/#q=tomato+variety+URI

URI stands for the University of Rhode Island and there are quite a few varieties listed, but none specifically named URI.

So perhaps an unnamed variety from one of the trials at some time and the 2013 indicates when the seeds were produced by the person sending in the seeds..

Carolyn

[Tormato]

I'll search through the stacks of paper and find the source who sent URI. Perhaps it was one of the Gardenweb participants.

Gary