Need a tomato ID

[JamesL]

Can anyone identify the Orange / red tomato in the pics?
It is growing in the same container as another Cherokee Purple - and clearly isn't.
It is an RL plant.

I was originally upset at not having a 2nd Cherokee Purple, but using my keen powers of observation I determined that what I thought was a Cherokee Green is in fact a Purple.
So net loss - 1 Cherokee Green.

So, based on my CG mix up as well, I thought we had some seedling confusion, but this tomato looks like nothing else I am growing. Guessing an errant seed, but what do I know.....

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by JamesL

Can anyone identify the Orange / red tomato in the pics?
It is growing in the same container as another Cherokee Purple - and clearly isn't.
It is an RL plant.

I was originally upset at not having a 2nd Cherokee Purple, but using my keen powers of observation I determined that what I thought was a Cherokee Green is in fact a Purple.
So net loss - 1 Cherokee Green.

So, based on my CG mix up as well, I thought we had some seedling confusion, but this tomato looks like nothing else I am growing. Guessing an errant seed, but what do I know.....

If you're saying that you weren't growing anything that looks like what you show in the picture and it could be a stray seed, let me ask where it appeared, as in seeds from which variety? And from seeds of that variety how many did you germinate and plant out?

And did you buy your seeds or trade for them, which is often a problem with the latter.

In that 3rd picture you show two fruits, one your mystery one and is the other one Cherokee Purple?

No way to ID a variety just with a picture unless it's something very unique and there must be several varieties, some I can think of, that resemble what you show. But until you share with us some answers to my questions we can't even rule in/out what you show is the result of a stray seed of a known variety or an F1 hybrid seed the result of a Cross Pollination.

[JamesL]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

If you're saying that you weren't growing anything that looks like what you show in the picture and it could be a stray seed, let me ask where it appeared, as in seeds from which variety? And from seeds of that variety how many did you germinate and plant out?

And did you buy your seeds or trade for them, which is often a problem with the latter.

In that 3rd picture you show two fruits, one your mystery one and is the other one Cherokee Purple?

No way to ID a variety just with a picture unless it's something very unique and there must be several varieties, some I can think of, that resemble what you show. But until you share with us some answers to my questions we can't even rule in/out what you show is the result of a stray seed of a known variety or an F1 hybrid seed the result of a Cross Pollination.

Carolyn,
I figured it would be impossible to identify. Thanks for looking though.
Not really concerned as they are still going to be eaten!

3rd picture - Yes - mystery tomato and Cherokee Purple together

My grow list - Cherokee Purple, Rowdy Red, Stump of the World, Brandywine Suddath, New Big Dwarf, Polish Linguista, Orange Banana, Goose Creek, Cherokee Green.
No matches for the mystery tom......
I bought my seeds from a variety of sources.
Pure conjecture - an errant seed(s) of some other variety ended up in the Cherokee Purple seed pack, as I had it labeled as CP.

I germinated 6 Cherokee Purples, kept 2 (or so I thought) and gave 4 away, and I don't know if the 4 give away's are actually growing as CP's, so my sample size of information is not much help.

Entirely possible my 4 year old "tomato elf" played "switch the labels", which I think might have happened with the Cherokee Green, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this one...

C'est la vie!