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Post by cortona on May 13, 2010 18:20:34 GMT -5
i have my plants outside from a week but temps are realy too mild for showing violet on the stem, the only part that seems to show some purple are the low side of the leef! aniway one of the plant have decided to start flowering so i wil probably isolate this first truss of flower to ensure total urity of the seeds!
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Post by wildseed57 on May 28, 2010 20:55:42 GMT -5
Has any one taken some reasent photos of the blue tomato plants and does anyone have photos of their plants with tomatoes coming on yet? George W.
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Post by DarJones on Jun 6, 2010 21:39:29 GMT -5
Wild,
I have about 80 F3 blue tomato plants in the garden. They are derived from 7 highly selected F2 plants grown in 2009. A few of them have 6 to 8 ounce tomatoes set. I'll try to take a few photos tomorrow and post them so you can see what they should look like. I will be selecting for the best combination of flavor, size, and production from this years plants with hopes of stabilizing something in a year or so.
DarJones
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Post by Penny on Jun 7, 2010 5:52:19 GMT -5
No pics here, but i only have 1 plant growing, and flowers are just starting to pop now.
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Post by nuts on Jun 8, 2010 17:03:17 GMT -5
no tomatoes yet but here are some pics USO,you can see some pigmentation on stem and leaves,but it's not so evident in the photo pinkfloyd ,I suppose it's kind of pink,because its name and because it's a alan bishop creation,and you know it's an alan bishopcreation because it has a name of a rock group. Some of them had some curled leaves but it doesn't seem very bad and jack white(jack white is a rock artist,so..ABcreation),I hope it's some kind of pink/black too just can't wait for the tomatoes...
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Post by jeannineanne on Jun 10, 2010 14:30:37 GMT -5
Hi, just thought I would say hi. I was kindly give a few OSU blue and am growing them this year, The foliage is quite purple compared to others that I have. I was very late getting started so have my fingers crossed that they have time to mature. I also have a similar one called Blueberry , the foliage of that one is purple compared to everything else.
XX Jeannine
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Post by wildseed57 on Jun 17, 2010 14:13:49 GMT -5
The photos look great, thats for posting them along with the purple folage, are the fruit also supposed to be purple or blue? Also I was wondering how big the plants got, are they inderminate? I grow the indeterminat, rather than the other also how big are the tomatoes suppose to get? I like the beefsteake varieties over the smaller ones which I grow for my grand daughters. Thanks. George W.
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Post by ozarklady on Jun 17, 2010 15:58:16 GMT -5
I just reviewed my photos of tomatoes, Risentraube, Peach Blow Sutton, and OSU blue are all three blooming. There is no more purple on the Blue than the others, in photos. In person, I see a hint of blue, where the stems meet the soil.
They are spaced about 12' apart, in containers, with other garden crops in between them, not nightshade plants. Do I need to worry about unwanted crosses and bag the blooms on the tomatoes to get pure seed?
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Post by bunkie on Jun 18, 2010 11:09:41 GMT -5
due to the rain, i have not been able to transplant my OSUs out in the garden yet. hopefully we're having some sun tomorrow and will do so.
they are in the greenhouse and still in small pots. they have wicked large stems and are flowering at present and creating fruit. the stems and leaves are all purple. will try and take some pics soon.
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Post by wildseed57 on Jun 28, 2010 15:01:25 GMT -5
With all the different weather thats going on, I'm wondering how the blue tomatoes were doing and if any had started to ripen yet. Here in South East Missouri, its been very hot and dry with high humidity. At my main garden I have had to water twice a day just to keep it from drying completely out. while just a couple states away its been raining so much that they have had serious flooding. So I was wondering if that was causing any of you problems with growing your tomatoes, hopefully none of you have been in the flood zone. George
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jun 28, 2010 16:09:34 GMT -5
Wow. I'm really Interested in the OSU Blue project. It's actually the reason i joined the forum. I heard members here had seed they were sharing. I would love to get some seeds once the season is over, and if someone is willing to share. Any that have been slightly improved flavour wise would be best, but if not any seeds would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Post by ozarklady on Jul 4, 2010 0:17:15 GMT -5
I got photos today! We finally got some much needed rain, and while looking around to see if we got enough rain to not have to water, I discovered, my OSU Blue is showing blue, but not on the stems, per se. I see blue shoulders and these are about golf ball sized at the moment.
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Post by DarJones on Jul 4, 2010 20:28:00 GMT -5
I have about 80 plants that are F3's derived from a cross of P20 blue with a high flavor line. Keith Mueller made the crosses a couple of years ago. Here are a few photos to compare with. Please note that the P20 line I selected are uniformly dark almost black where exposed to sun. The cross included genetics for pink fruit so some of the most promising F3's are pink with purple shoulders. The gene for pink radically affects expression of coloration in tomatoes and that includes the anthocyanin bio pathway. Please note the size of fruit in these photos. Among the problems with the original lines was max 2 inches diameter fruit. These plants are producing many fruits up to about 12 ounces and 3 to 4 inches diameter. Photo 1 is regular leaf small pink fruited photo 2 is heart shaped fruit likely from a bee made cross last year. photos 3 to 7 are potato leaf plants with larger fruit and varying levels of anthocyanin. photo 8 is of ripe Purple Haze which parental stock in the cross. DarJones
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Post by cornishwoman on Jul 13, 2010 12:07:05 GMT -5
my osu blues ,seeds which Bunkie sent me this year,.Lucky for me I planted these after the flood.
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Post by ozarklady on Jul 25, 2010 18:05:15 GMT -5
My first non-cherry type ripe tomato for 2010 will be: The top fell over, broke, and you see where I put it back together, not sure if that led to the early ripening, or if they are just due... it is about the size of a tennis ball, or just bigger than a golf ball... somewhere in there. And yet the other OSU blue has larger tomatoes, but less of them on it.
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