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Post by littleminnie on Mar 8, 2010 19:18:13 GMT -5
I have these two tomatoes because the looks are so cool! I have heard mixed reviews on their tastes however. Anyone have opinions on how they taste and also how big the plants get?
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Post by iva on Mar 9, 2010 3:00:43 GMT -5
A friend of mine grew Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge last year (I will grow it this year) and she told me it tasted very sweet and fruity, unlike any tomato she had ever eaten. So it is definitely going to be one of my favorites if that is the case... I'm also curious about the Thai Pink Egg...
Oh, by the way, littleminnie, I love the onions in your avatar, I've never seen any this huge...
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Post by grunt on Mar 9, 2010 3:03:46 GMT -5
Tamara: Thai Pink Egg is not a large plant ( picasaweb.google.ca/TVgrunt/2009TOMATOES02 towards the bottom of the page ) but really puts out the fruit. Taste wasn't spectacular here, but that may be due to our cool nights.
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Post by sandbar on Mar 9, 2010 22:58:35 GMT -5
I got one small fruit off of my Orange-Fleshed Purple Smudge before it succumbed to the early late-blight last year. Taste was unremarkable. Spoke to another heirloom grower at market last year who trialed it, too. He concurred with my observation. Neither of us are growing it this year. I may give it a try again some year, but the seed is more expensive than hybrid seed ...
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Post by cortona on Mar 12, 2010 20:39:28 GMT -5
tasted tay pink egg and i can tel flawor is not so strong...heavi productive but... just a bit better tan the store brought!
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Post by littleminnie on Mar 12, 2010 22:04:00 GMT -5
Sweet and fruity reminds me of Flamee Orange. Small but fruity. My guess is OFPS will be like it only purple smudged. Cute photos of pink egg. So I am thinking both kinds are semi-determinate.
Thanks Iva, the onions are only normal size but I am really, really tiny. LOL ;D
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Post by kctomato on Mar 12, 2010 22:32:14 GMT -5
I'd call Orange Smudge bland and uneventful.
I found the same as Grunt with Thai Pink Egg except it is not cool here. It was bland.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 13, 2010 9:00:38 GMT -5
Thai Pink Egg grew well for me in containers in 2007. It was a conversation starter for sure. Cute fruit; makes a great ornamental plant. To eat? I won't waste my time growing it again. Grunt, if You, Me and KC all agree, I don't think it was just the cool night temps in B.C.
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Post by remy on Mar 19, 2010 22:54:44 GMT -5
My OFPS plants never got too big. The leaves have purple coloration. They look like they have a phosphorous deficiency. The tomatoes were neat looking but bland.
Sandbar, I don't understand why places are charging so much for seed. I could understand a rare meaty low seed count tomato, but the fruit produce a lot of seed. Remy
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Post by seedywen on Mar 22, 2010 16:28:00 GMT -5
Concurr with others about the taste of Purple Smudge, not being particularily noteworthy although the color is interesting.
Plants grew like a determinate in my greenhouse.
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Post by sandbar on Mar 22, 2010 21:20:46 GMT -5
Remy, my guess for the high price tag is limited availability. Baker Creek was the first place I noticed it last year. Think I only ran across it in one other commercial vendor this year. I did not buy seed this year.
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Post by wildseed57 on Mar 27, 2010 19:51:56 GMT -5
Hi I have grown both of them as I live just a few miles from Baker's Creek here in Missouri and I didn't care to much for them, if you need to find a good early season type you could try woodly orange or ozark pink they are fairly early. My favorite big Bi-colored is one called the pineapple tomato its a later variety, but very sweet. for a good red variety you could try old Italian its a large red tomato that has plenty of flavor, but might be a bit to late for northern gardeners. My grand daughters love green zebra which isn't to bad and is a early type that produces pretty good. George W. Z5-6 MO. USA
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Post by canadamike on Mar 27, 2010 20:18:50 GMT -5
Hey! Welcome George, and thanks for sharing the insight.....good notes taken in Canada....
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Post by littleminnie on Mar 31, 2010 19:58:33 GMT -5
Well it looks like I won't have any Thai pink egg anyway. The seeds I got in trade have not had any germination.
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Post by wildseed57 on Apr 7, 2010 13:25:19 GMT -5
Hi CanadianMike, good to be here. The Thia egg tomato was brought in from Thialand by Jere at Baker's Creek on one of his many trips that he takes. I have met with him a few times. I believe that it may need high temps and humidity to develope any flavor, I have found that to be the case with some varieties that are grown in hotter parts of Asia. one of the most bland and fairly tastless ones that I got from him is called wapsipinicon peach which is a small pingpong ball sized yellow tomato, I know its not Jere's fault that its not worth buying, but I won't make that mistake again. I got loads of this small tomato and even my grand daughters said that it was bland and tasteless. I don't care that much for the white tomatoes either as they are just sweet with no real flavor and sun scald pretty bad, even the little white cherry tomatoes share this fault. George W. Z5-6 MO. USA
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