This Is NOT SFT

travis · June 27, 2006

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 ...

PV

**nctomatoman** · June 27, 2006

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!

**nctomatoman** · June 27, 2006

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!

travis · July 28, 2006

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.

PV

Tomstrees · July 28, 2006

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 ~

~ Tom

June 27, 2006	#1
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	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 ... PV

June 27, 2006	#2
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	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! __________________ Craig

June 27, 2006	#3
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	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! __________________ Craig

July 28, 2006	#4
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	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. PV

July 28, 2006	#5
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	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 ~ ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale