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Post by nicky on Nov 12, 2012 10:05:16 GMT -5
I grew one of the Barossa Moon F4 lines this summer. It was VERY late in my greenhouse. The latest of all plants to produce a ripe fruit. Also more of a saladette size. Hope that you enjoy it. I love those dwarf plants!
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Post by richardw on Nov 12, 2012 12:46:26 GMT -5
Yes they are great for greenhouses where room may be short
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Post by raymondo on Nov 12, 2012 14:37:02 GMT -5
I grew one of the Barossa Moon F4 lines this summer. It was VERY late in my greenhouse. The latest of all plants to produce a ripe fruit. Also more of a saladette size. Hope that you enjoy it. I love those dwarf plants! Interesting that even at the F4 stage there is still some variation. I grew three F4 plants last season. One was a cherry, the other two more saladette size. They were a little later than some others in the garden but it was a poor season for tomatoes being cool and wet. Flavour was pretty good though on all of them. I saved seed only from the cherry and am growing five plants this season.
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Post by richardw on Nov 23, 2012 11:49:10 GMT -5
My third tomato type to ripen is an F6 from the dwarf breeding program called Wherokowhai (whero is Maori for red and kowhai means yellow) ,i have F7's and F8's growing also
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Post by raymondo on Nov 23, 2012 22:02:40 GMT -5
How's the flavour Richard?
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Post by synergy on Nov 23, 2012 22:46:42 GMT -5
canadamike, would you share your recipe for the tomato rice soup , please?
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Post by justness on Dec 29, 2012 17:42:06 GMT -5
My list for 2013
because I'm not a fan of acidic tomatoes and those with longer ripening season,
decision has been made on tomatoes with less acid and a shorter period of maturation,
means at the latest 80 days to harvest, I gave a chance only 4sorte than 85 days
This season I sowed 80 varieties of which I was almost half-destroyed catastrophic
drought, so I'll repeat again silent.
Amish Farmer Andenkollektion orange Azoychaka Alter kommunist BurkLpu Basinga Besser Babuschka Buzan 1600 Bloody Butcher Budenovka Big red Romanian Beutleltomate aus el Salvador Dutchman Domaca pfarrgarten Early Annie Elbe Fuoco d'Oro Gezahnte Tomate Italian Heirloom Joseph's open polinated landrace Yellow Zebra Yellow Bosnian Yasha Yugoslavian Kleopatra Long Keeper Marianna´s Peace Matina Nonna Antonina Omas beste Old tradition Romanian Pfirsich tomate Rose de Berne Rajic trgovane Super eiesentraube Spoon Tocoh Tepee Zakopane Zahnrad Tomate
it's a list for now, but there will be at least another 40 species that expect
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Post by cortona on Dec 30, 2012 13:09:33 GMT -5
wizardica, wath can you tel me about nonna antonina? it seems to be italian from the name!
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Post by justness on Dec 30, 2012 15:37:01 GMT -5
Old family heirloom tomatoes from Sara Porporato and Jörg-M. Schröter, Volvera, Italy, they
got the seed from his grandmother.
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Post by wildseed57 on Jan 1, 2013 15:51:06 GMT -5
HI Wiz, I have a few questions about your varieties, I know most of Europe has a very bad blight problem, so do any of yours show any resistance that you know of? last year we started into severe drought conditions with very high humidity which brought on severe mildew problems. Here in Missouri Mildew is a killer that is worse than blight at times depending on what you are growing in your garden, I basically can't grow melons and only cucumbers that have mildew resistance. So do you have any problems like that where your at? I posted about getting some "good tomato varieties" to stem some of my problems, I recognize some of the varieties that you have, while the larger part are unknown to me, could you tell me a little about them and why you picked them. I assume all are low acid as you stated that you didn't like high acid tomatoes are the majority of them heirloom varieties or are there a few hybrid mixed in? Thank you for any info you might have feel free to PM me if you need to. George W.
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Post by DarJones on Jan 1, 2013 16:06:44 GMT -5
Wild, check Tom Wagner for Skykomish. High Mowing for Iron Lady Johnny's for Defiant and for Mountain Merit
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Post by justness on Jan 2, 2013 11:22:23 GMT -5
wildseed57 .. my selection of tomato varieties is based on an earlier harvest, earlier
maturation and the sweetness and mild acidic tomato. we all magnetic
we go for the larger tomatoes that have a long time to harvest and are therefore
these are doomed to diseases that occur later rains, from experience I
uvijerila the less likely the disease of tomatoes that have a shorter shelf
maturation, here in Croatia (Zagreb live here and there, I was born) large
problem creates downy mildew, bacterial diseases are unknown to me, at least
I have not heard of anyone famous, my tomatoes are in most of the old domestic,
varieties, which do not treat the chemicals, just a tincture of herbs and milk, give
great results, say that the downy mildew appears to me in 9 months,
necessary, but then it does not matter because it is already velikaberba napravljena.Recimo,
tomato has a better flavor and aroma, and is not so odd watery bay is not often,
My lot is located 20 kilometers from my house, so I'm not able
always be present, watering and do other needs for the garden, water the abundance of
deep channels around the tomatoes once a week, have a tomato taste and fantasy
are healthy and velike.Nisam told that my lists the lot on the hill near the forest,
Thus, the presence of fog and cold air are still there, but the tomatoes are somehow the election as well as other
And you can not give a recommendation because it is not a condition to be everywhere if it is healthy fruit and
with me.
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Post by justness on Jan 2, 2013 11:23:09 GMT -5
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Post by wildseed57 on Jan 2, 2013 22:33:52 GMT -5
nice photo's the dark colored ones are interesting, I'm slowly coming over to the dark side how be it slowly, I grew Black Krim off and on for several years and even though I liked the flavor I very seldom ate one fresh, and mainly used it in my sauces. I had been growing a lot of yellow and bi colored along with orange colored ones, but over the last couple of years have moved back to the smaller red slicers as they did better than the big yellow and bi colored beef steaks, which have less resistance to disease. This year I will be growing a few more cherry and paste types for drying.
Fusion I haven't gotten the High Mowing Catalog yet I just have the 2010 catalog don't know what happened to the others anyway in the 2010 they don't have Iron lady, but I spotted a long truss cherry by the name of suzanne f1 hb. FF races 1-5 FW races 0-1 & TMV which interest me I might see if the new catalog on line still has it along with Iron Lady, Toms website was still down the last time I looked. Its maddening at times I have one year of AG and two years in Horticulture and I have some breeding experience with cactus and Orchids but now my hands shake so much at times I can't drink a lousy glass of water, else wise I would do my own breeding work. So now I just have to take the good with the bad and hope that I get lucky with the selections.
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Post by DarJones on Jan 3, 2013 3:15:23 GMT -5
Wild, you have some options if you want to breed your own veggies. Do a "dirty" cross using a potato leaf variety as the female and any regular leaf plant as the pollen parent. You need an electric toothbrush and a few canning flats like you would seal jars with. Use the toothbrush to dust pollen from the male parent onto the canning flat and then rub a few of the potato leaf plants flower stigma into the pollen. Save the seed and any that are regular leaf are crosses. Even with shaking hands, you should be able to do a few this way.
DarJones
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