P20.

[strawman]

Hi, just wondered if anybody has any news about the availability of Jim Myer's blue tomatoes.
p.s. pretty good forum.

[Tormato]

Strawman,

P20 is a dark purple.

Red where the sun don't shine. (I had to Monkey around with that line, right Terry?)

P20 is also a bus route between the seedy wastelands of Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts. But, you're just looking for tomato seeds.

So, PM me a mailing address, for I know someone who has some.

Gary

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tormato

Strawman,

P20 is a dark purple.

Red where the sun don't shine. (I had to Monkey around with that line, right Terry?)

P20 is also a bus route between the seedy wastelands of Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts. But, you're just looking for tomato seeds.

So, PM me a mailing address, for I know someone who has some.

Gary

Quite a few folks have seeds for this experimental variety and I was sent a few fruits as well. I didn't like it at all.

There are several different selection lines that have now been distributed and what disturbs me is that originally someone was signed a paper saying that no seeds were to be distributed but were to be used only for individual breeding purposes.

But then someone who worked in the lab where this work was being done made a seed offer at another place where I post and when I asked her, she said no one told her she couldn't distribute them, she hadn't asked, and so she WAS distributing them. Point and counterpoint.

So opinions are highly variable based on what selection one gets. And since the selections aren't numbered or IDed it gets even more amusing.

There are no commercial sources and won't be for many years, if even then, b'c this variety is being developed for use in further breeding efforts from what I understand.

And there's a huge amount of info also available by Googling.

Yes, I saved a few seeds from the fruits sent to me but I'm not distributing them per the request of the folks who are developing it that they made of a couple of other folks who said they were going to use it only for breeding purposes/


Maybe it's the teacher still in me, maybe it's the researcher still in me, but when a request has been made to NOT distribute seeds, I adhere to that.

[Tormato]

Carolyn,

I guess the cat is out of the bag. And it's an unstable cat, at that. My source's tomatoes were all red.

Gary