Golden version of a green zebra

heirloomtomaguy · November 8, 2014

So every year i grow green zebra and am pretty familiar with the variety. This year i sowed some seeds i bought a couple years ago and all 4 of my plants produced this super golden/yellow version. Has anyone else seen this color out of a green zebra plant. Like i said i have been growing this variety for years without these results. Maybe Tom Wagner or any of you have some insight for me.

KarenO · November 8, 2014

My experience is small but I I have had green zebra tomatoes that dark golden colour but only if they were well past their prime and very overripe. Same with malachite box, if you leave them long enough they turn that colour but are inedible to me at that level of ripeness.
Yours don't look soft yet.
Karen

heirloomtomaguy · November 8, 2014

These ones were picked almost ripe not over ripe. That's why i was a little puzzled. Usually they are more green than gold but these particular plants put off gold with a touch of green. In the pic with two tomatoes the one on the right is off of a green zebra from a different seed company. The taste was also sweeter on the gold one than the usual citrus tang of the green zebra.

PaddyMc · November 9, 2014

Very cool. Worth a re-grow for sure.

Sun City Linda · November 9, 2014

Beautiful!

Salsacharley · November 10, 2014

Looks like Orange Green Zebra

http://www.dianeseeds.com/tomato-ora...een-zebra.html

greenthumbomaha · November 11, 2014

Yep, that is what my Orange and Green Zebra looked like. I prefer the regular Green Zebra for tangier taste. Both plants kept going well past anything else I left standing until just before the freeze last week. Highly productive too.

- Lisa

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heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	These ones were picked almost ripe not over ripe. That's why i was a little puzzled. Usually they are more green than gold but these particular plants put off gold with a touch of green. In the pic with two tomatoes the one on the right is off of a green zebra from a different seed company. The taste was also sweeter on the gold one than the usual citrus tang of the green zebra. __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." Last edited by heirloomtomaguy; November 9, 2014 at 12:02 AM.

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KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,931	My experience is small but I I have had green zebra tomatoes that dark golden colour but only if they were well past their prime and very overripe. Same with malachite box, if you leave them long enough they turn that colour but are inedible to me at that level of ripeness. Yours don't look soft yet. Karen

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PaddyMc Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 241	Very cool. Worth a re-grow for sure.

November 9, 2014	#5
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	Beautiful!

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Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	Looks like Orange Green Zebra http://www.dianeseeds.com/tomato-ora...een-zebra.html

November 11, 2014	#7
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	Yep, that is what my Orange and Green Zebra looked like. I prefer the regular Green Zebra for tangier taste. Both plants kept going well past anything else I left standing until just before the freeze last week. Highly productive too. - Lisa