Post by Alan on Sept 16, 2007 19:42:05 GMT -5
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I've got something new I found at our farmers markett that I am really excited about!
Every once in a while I come accross something new, different, and exciting from the other vendors of our market, whom for the most part are into far more "commercial" type, synthetic, hybrid, farming, than the more adventorous Bishop's Homegrown "weird produce" folks.
Anyhow, there is one older couple who'm I am always checking out their table, because by all means, if anyone will have something a bit different it will be them, for they have a habbit (such as myself) of saving hybrid seeds (for the past 50 years)!
Not because they are into plant breeding, but for frugal reasons, and maybe a bit of curiousity.
Anyhow, two years ago I noticed an intriguing berry box of yellow cherry tomatoes........
Why were they intriguing?
The shapes, tones of color, an the comments coming from a return customer about these particular tomatoes.
In that little quart container, was a mixture of yellow and orange, oddly shaped tomatoes, odd in that some had a bit of a pear shape, some had a traditional cherry shape, but the majority (a large majority) were a nice orange/yellow, beefsteak shaped cherry!
I asked them where they came from and the lady (Mrs. Nicholson) told me that they had been growing them for a number of years and they had been started as yellow pears and had crossed over the years!
I had always meant to buy some of them, but customers always beat me to the punch, untill saturday, now I am fermenting what looks to be close to 1/2 ounce of seed!
There was still a bit of variation in the box and Mrs. Nicholson had said that for the past few years they hadn't even planted the seeds or plants of these tomatoes but that instead these had "self-sowed" the past few years in an area of the garden that they now leave unturned for this exact purpose.
The shape is exactly that of a flatened beefsteak tomato, some even with some slight ridging at the shoulders, the taste (according to my mother and market customers that I asked) is terriffic, average rating being an 7.5
I asked the nicholsons what other tomatoes if any that they might remember that they had for sure grown around their yellow pear tomatoes and got a few ideas of where the cross came from.....
Sungold....
Rutgeurs..
Large Pink (not sure what this is, they didn't have a name, I figure more than likely something close to Brandywine)
Anyhow, I know these tomatoes are not yet stable but I think I might offer a few up as a breeding material introduction in the 2007/2008 Hip-Gnosis/B.R.S.I.P. list of available germplasm as PL#0014-07-V1.0 !
Just wanted to let you know......if you have a request for the BRSIP you might want to add this to it!
I've got something new I found at our farmers markett that I am really excited about!
Every once in a while I come accross something new, different, and exciting from the other vendors of our market, whom for the most part are into far more "commercial" type, synthetic, hybrid, farming, than the more adventorous Bishop's Homegrown "weird produce" folks.
Anyhow, there is one older couple who'm I am always checking out their table, because by all means, if anyone will have something a bit different it will be them, for they have a habbit (such as myself) of saving hybrid seeds (for the past 50 years)!
Not because they are into plant breeding, but for frugal reasons, and maybe a bit of curiousity.
Anyhow, two years ago I noticed an intriguing berry box of yellow cherry tomatoes........
Why were they intriguing?
The shapes, tones of color, an the comments coming from a return customer about these particular tomatoes.
In that little quart container, was a mixture of yellow and orange, oddly shaped tomatoes, odd in that some had a bit of a pear shape, some had a traditional cherry shape, but the majority (a large majority) were a nice orange/yellow, beefsteak shaped cherry!
I asked them where they came from and the lady (Mrs. Nicholson) told me that they had been growing them for a number of years and they had been started as yellow pears and had crossed over the years!
I had always meant to buy some of them, but customers always beat me to the punch, untill saturday, now I am fermenting what looks to be close to 1/2 ounce of seed!
There was still a bit of variation in the box and Mrs. Nicholson had said that for the past few years they hadn't even planted the seeds or plants of these tomatoes but that instead these had "self-sowed" the past few years in an area of the garden that they now leave unturned for this exact purpose.
The shape is exactly that of a flatened beefsteak tomato, some even with some slight ridging at the shoulders, the taste (according to my mother and market customers that I asked) is terriffic, average rating being an 7.5
I asked the nicholsons what other tomatoes if any that they might remember that they had for sure grown around their yellow pear tomatoes and got a few ideas of where the cross came from.....
Sungold....
Rutgeurs..
Large Pink (not sure what this is, they didn't have a name, I figure more than likely something close to Brandywine)
Anyhow, I know these tomatoes are not yet stable but I think I might offer a few up as a breeding material introduction in the 2007/2008 Hip-Gnosis/B.R.S.I.P. list of available germplasm as PL#0014-07-V1.0 !
Just wanted to let you know......if you have a request for the BRSIP you might want to add this to it!