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Post by bunkie on Feb 15, 2009 12:03:54 GMT -5
i'm going to have to try these multifloras next year. they sound fascinating. please do post pics ray.
i would love to use some seaweed, but we're many miles inland from the ocean. we're trying to use what we have around here rather than depend on stores or mailing outlets for fundamentaries.
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Post by alkapuler on Feb 15, 2009 21:59:21 GMT -5
-in the 1990's Rosemarie and i exchanged long seed lists and many seeds
-in my regard, she has been one of the planet's best seed collectors
-it has been an honor to work with her
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Post by Alan on Feb 17, 2009 18:15:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure because I haven't grown it yet myself, but I believe I read somewhere that Lime Green Salad is a multi/centi flor type tomato. Perhaps Tom Wagner can chime in here if/when he wonders back by these parts.
Regardless, I'm going to work with the centiflors that Alan was kind enough to send me in my most recent order and perform a few crosses between these and my "have you got it yet" mix. If I can find some other centiflor/multiflor varieties I will also add those to the mix, increasing genetics in these tomato lines will probably represent the last of my new work with tomatoes for quite some time as I am pretty burn out on working with them, though I am excited about these new genetics.
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Post by alkapuler on Feb 22, 2009 15:10:04 GMT -5
-nice photos of centiflor hypertress tomatoes on the website of www.realseeds.co.uk/-turns out that we haven't fertilized our tomatoes for several years so that the tresses of Red Centiflor, Yellow Centiflor and Red Clusterpear had at best 150 flowers on a tress, the RealSeeds folks have tresses two feet across with hundreds of flowers on an inflorescence |
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Post by Jim on Feb 22, 2009 16:13:23 GMT -5
they look beautiful. I'll make room next year for some.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 23, 2009 4:05:57 GMT -5
Here are some pics from my garden. This is Katinka Cherry, an orange cherry. Probably 50 or so flowers in this truss.  This one is Rose Quartz Multiflora, a pink cherry. Between 30 and 50 flowers per truss. It's a little hard to see because I've let the watermelons ramble through part of the tomato patch.  |
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 23, 2009 8:39:40 GMT -5
I have to say that I love the looks of watermelon intermingled with tomato branches. Quite decorative. I suppose later in the season, they are spotty but hey now they look good!
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Post by johno on Feb 23, 2009 21:26:13 GMT -5
I got some L. humboldtii seeds last weekend. Look forward to seeing what this plant can do! Might make a few crosses, if my luck is better than in the past.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 23, 2009 23:55:22 GMT -5
Looking forward to the results already johno. Should be interesting.
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Post by canadamike on Feb 24, 2009 0:26:10 GMT -5
50 or so is about the number of flowers I would get on my PRINCIPE BORGHESE. Some trusses were in the area of 100, many of them actually, I would get much less fruits though...
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On slopes of the Jura nr Geneva, Switz. Zone 7a/b, but colder microclimate. About 52 sq m in veggies
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Post by potagere on Feb 24, 2009 2:26:49 GMT -5
I've grown "Lime Green Salad" for several years and never seen flower trusses like that. 10-12 fruits per truss is normal. Maybe I just don't grow it right?
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Post by iva on Feb 24, 2009 2:46:12 GMT -5
I've never given it much thought, but now can see that my own Iva's Red Berry is quite a producer. There are usually more than 100 flowers per tress and most of them turn into fruits. By the end of the season there can be up to 250 fruits per cluster. I've got some pictures... The early season flower tress:  Unripe fruits:  Late season fruit truss (can you count them all? ;D) :  |
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Post by grunt on Feb 24, 2009 3:29:15 GMT -5
One of my fortuitous crosses (meaning I had nothing to do with making it), produced this  Which in turn produced this  or this  I'm not sure which of the four the first photo was. One of the things I find very interesting is that, even though they did not all develop, all of the blossoms set, none died and fell off. I had 4 multifloras in the grow out, and only one of them lost any blossoms, and that was only six on one truss. Since the taste is good, I am going to be following all of the multifloras, and a couple more from this cross. Maybe with a bit better supply of food, I can get a higher percentage of fruit development. |
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Post by raymondo on Feb 24, 2009 4:04:06 GMT -5
Michel, is Principe Borghese a multiflor type I wonder? I have two plants that are supposed to be PB. I'm not entirely sure they are becasue the plants are enormous, at least 1.8m (6ft), and continually setting fruit, in other words, the plants are indeterminate. I thought PB was a determinate. If it's also a multiflor then I certainly don't have PB because the trusses on mine contain at most 10 flowers, usually fewer.
Iva and Grunt - wow! Fantastic plants.
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Post by canadamike on Feb 24, 2009 4:49:10 GMT -5
Mine are from a commercial source, Franchi I think or the other italian company we find at the store, can't remember the name. They were NOT determinate in my garden, I had to build a structure of 2x2 in cedar 7 feet high and use ropes to hae the plants grow on them like in greenhouses.
They were all higher than me (I am close to 6 feet). Over time I have experienced/read many stories of such tomato plants behaving differently in different places. Determinates tend to be huge here, it might be my soil. My Dwarf Champion and New Big Dwarf were definitely determinate last summer, but HUGE plants.
IVA, I would love to try your Ia's red bery...and I need your adress anyway my dear....
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