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Post by mbrown on May 18, 2007 13:03:47 GMT -5
Bill,
You would think with all of the money our government spends on research that one of the major universities would have received a grant to do this research on America's favorite veggie.
Also could you give me some examples of rugose tomatoes so I can look at some pictures in the catalogs. Thanks!
Mike
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Post by giardiniere on May 18, 2007 13:13:46 GMT -5
I am by no means an authority on PL varieties. Like billpapavic, I enjoy growing them, and get more fond of them each year. Some people feel that they provide better shade for their tomatoes..... and that may be true.. while others feel that the large leaves are a more favorable attractant for aphids. I think that is more of a matter of location and conditions, than leaf form.
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Post by giardiniere on May 18, 2007 13:25:24 GMT -5
Mike Martino's Roma is an example of a tomato with rugose foliage. Bill can probably provide you with additional names. This picture I took a few years ago at Disney World, will give you an idea. I don't know the variety however.  |
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Post by mbrown on May 18, 2007 13:56:00 GMT -5
Thanks Dave.
I'd love to have that in my garden.
Mike
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Post by PapaVic on May 18, 2007 16:20:54 GMT -5
Mike,
Dave's photo is a perfect example of beautiful rugose foliage on a tomato plant.
Some of the varieties that come to mind are the Husky series (Husky Red, Husky Gold), as well as anything called "Patio Tomato" and many of the other dwarf tomatoes will be listed as "tree type" or "rugose foliage" tomatoes.
A quick look at Victory Seeds shows tree-type and dwarf varieties like Lime Green Salad, Dwarf Champion, Russian Red, Polish Dwarf and others exhibit nice rugose foliage.
Bill
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Post by downinmyback on May 18, 2007 18:20:52 GMT -5
I raise some Brandywines because of the taste and then take them out after the main crop is done. I am searching for a regular leaf tomato that taste as good but since this is my first year raising OP varities. I did raise Brandywine for the last two years and also Roma ( that is how i have caught the OP tomato bug ).Brandywine suk in production in my area but i am willing to raise them for their taste. Go Figger.
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Post by johno on May 18, 2007 19:12:49 GMT -5
I had a customer at the seed shop today who was freaked out that some of his tomato plants had potato leaves. hehehehe! I enjoyed that. He was much calmer after I explained that it made little or no difference on his tomatoes...
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Post by tomstrees on May 29, 2007 19:21:33 GMT -5
Treat it no different than a regular leaf variety ... But rumor has it by this cat named "Spud-Leaf-Willie", PL tomatoes just seem to taste better ~ Enjoy your new found PL ...  ~ Tom ps. this is one of Spuds grandfathers tomatoes called "Grandpa Willie". An amazing PL variety"  This is another one of my favs called "Pink Potato Top". WOW !  |
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Post by houseodessey on May 29, 2007 19:52:42 GMT -5
I am growing a Boxcar Willie. Any relation to Spud's G-pa, I wonder?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 29, 2007 20:04:15 GMT -5
The Pink Potato Top is Gorgeous!! Thanks for posting the pics.
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Post by tomstrees on May 30, 2007 12:46:26 GMT -5
re: Box Car Willie -
No relation to Spud ~
Blue, glad you liked the pics !
~ Tom
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Post by mbrown on Jun 8, 2007 11:27:46 GMT -5
Well the Marianna's Peace has survived the partially broken stem and is the largest tomato plant in the garden (about 6 feet). It is loaded with blooms and has been for some time, but no little tomatoes are forming. The other 11 plants are loaded with green tomatoes.
Do any of you know what could be causing this to happen and is there a solution?
Mike
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Post by PapaVic on Jun 8, 2007 22:18:59 GMT -5
Okay ... a few potato leaf shapes in the garden on Memorial Day 2007: Big Cheef sent me seeds from a Brandywine Sudduth x Unknown Regular Leaf cross. The F1 was regular leaf of course. Here is what 25% of the F2 seedlings threw:  Here's a shot of a leaf on Cherokee Purple PL. This plant is loading up with fruit faster than the Cherokee Purple RL:  Here's a potato leaf variant of Novikov's Giant, a Russian tomato that normally has an intermediate leaf form between regular and potato leaf. The leaves on this plant are pure PL (you can see some of the intermediate leaf shapes on the neighboring Novikov Giant in the upper left corner of the photo):  And here's what Novikov's Giant should look like:  I have two leaf shapes going in the 2007 Brandy Boy F4s. Here is the first shape:  And here is the leaf shape on the other Brandy Boy F4:  Here's a freak plant that came up PL from Carbon seeds that otherwise were all RL:  Potato leaf shapes are beautiful. So are regular leaf shapes. And rugose. Hell ... they're all beautiful! Later taters, PV |
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Post by downinmyback on Jun 8, 2007 23:42:00 GMT -5
Bill those are some great pics. Some of your crosses sound very interesting. Please keep us informed .
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jan 15, 2017 2:31:45 GMT -5
Last year i started a few varieties that turned out to be potato leaved such as 'Magnus' and i think 'ponderosa'. Since these are ol varieties from the 1900s this makes sense. I chose these ones based on old reports that they have longer stigmas that may help for promiscuous pollination. alanbishop.proboards.com/post/114160/thread |
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