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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 8, 2010 13:23:47 GMT -5
Is purple smudge a name or a discription? The only other plant I have with purple in its name is Cherokee Purple, and it hasn't ripened a fruit yet, and really isn't being overly productive. I have now sampled: Risentraube, Grueso, Pink Oxhart, and OSU both larger and small one. My favorite for taste: The small OSU, second in line would be Pink Oxhart. Purple Smudge is a tomato, and it looks exactly like the ones in the pics, orange with a purple top.
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Post by ozarklady on Aug 8, 2010 14:44:08 GMT -5
Oh, but they do turn red, they were orange at that moment, and I didn't realize they would get redder, but they do.
I pick all tomatoes at color stage, due to having chickens on duty in the garden, and a red ripe tomato is just too much for them to leave alone! But, without the chickens the ticks would make sure that I don't garden at all. So, you just have to compromise.
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Post by wildseed57 on Aug 8, 2010 18:35:25 GMT -5
I grew purple smudge last year and was not impressed by them there was not only jusy a little purple at the top and the flavor was nothing to right home about, I'm hoping when the all blue tomato seeds can be releast I can get on someones list. I grow mostly the Big yellow sweet ones, but would like to grow a all blue tomato. So to the powers that be, please keep me in mind. George W.
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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 8, 2010 20:40:09 GMT -5
I grew purple smudge last year and was not impressed by them there was not only jusy a little purple at the top and the flavor was nothing to right home about, I'm hoping when the all blue tomato seeds can be releast I can get on someones list. I grow mostly the Big yellow sweet ones, but would like to grow a all blue tomato. So to the powers that be, please keep me in mind. George W. Here is some from Michael Johsons strain, and I will gladly give you some seed wild, wait till the end of the season. These are alot bigger than they look they average about 8-10 oz.
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Post by ozarklady on Aug 8, 2010 20:51:34 GMT -5
I would like some seeds of that one too Darth, I haven't had any tomatoes come in at 8 oz. much less a blue. Belgian Giant is just a normal sized tomato for me, not even beefsteak sized.
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Post by wildseed57 on Aug 11, 2010 21:37:22 GMT -5
Thanks I will definitely email you at the end of the season, my tomatoes took a hard hit from just about everything including the weather. Those blue tomatoes are intriguing, have you noticed and resistance to disease or to insects? I have heard that there is a wild species that has very fuzzy and sticky stems and leaves that might act as a trap for various insects, being that they get stuck like fly paper. I wonder if the purple or blue coloring would detour insects to some degree, I know that with the purple smudge it didn't make any difference as the mites and aphids seem to like it just the same as the others. George W.
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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 12, 2010 20:55:50 GMT -5
Hey Michael!!! Get a load of this, it is one of many beefsteaks out of the ones you sent, this has the nicest color because it was more exposed. I have alot of these and am seeding most of them. By the way, these are running 10oz.
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Post by michaeljohnson on Aug 13, 2010 1:34:00 GMT -5
Well done Darth, you look as though you are growing them better than me this season, that large truss in the above photos is a very good truss set and carrying nice tomatoes of very good quality.
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Post by paquebot on Aug 13, 2010 2:07:35 GMT -5
As each day passes, I'm more and more impressed by other things about it besides color. Don't know how many days ago I reported on the first ripe ones but 3 sat on my seed table ever since and were still intact when I tossed them tonight. The plants are absolutely loaded with fruit and not a rotten one one my 4. The other 8 plants in a friend's plot don't have the same good soil as what's under mine but not far behind for production. A single fruit on one of his plants was a boat shape with blue-black stripes running down to its navel. Didn't allow that one to end up in a sauce!
Taste has been acceptable on every plant except the one with a lot of radial cracks. I think that it's simply too juicy with too much acidic seed gel. With over 100 varieties growing this year, I could possibly rate my OSU Blues on a scale of 1 to 100 if I really got serious. I've been tasting tomatoes for many, many years and what's growing here ain't all that half bad. Tasted better, tasted worse, and as many people know, it takes some doing to impress me!
Only disappointment, if there can be such a thing when nothing can truly be expected, is the size. May be one or two on the single cracker's plant which push 4" but otherwise a ton of 2" stuff. I'll quite probably be the first to use OSU Blues as a whole tomato canner with a 7-quart batch in a few days. Couldn't pull that off last year. If I don't get seed for something bigger, don't see why I should want for something different since it's taken over 500 years since Columbus' tomato introduction to get to this point! It's definitely a work in progress and I do hope that everything is settled in before another 500 years pass. I don't think that I can live that long!
Martin
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Post by Penny on Aug 13, 2010 6:06:44 GMT -5
I just love the color of them...mine are just about ready too.
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Post by tuttamatta on Aug 13, 2010 23:20:24 GMT -5
Ciao Dino, posso averne un po' anch'io? Mi piacerebbe provarli l'anno prossimo. Paola
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 14, 2010 17:54:03 GMT -5
Forginve me if this question is absurd or inane but I was wondering, as of this point in time, are all the tomato varieties that have the blue gene RED fleshed. I ask only because it occured to me how attactive the blue gene migh look overlayed on some other tomato colors. For example a WHITE tomato that had the blue skin gene might be quite visually arresting, I would imagine you would get a white tomato with a lavender to purple blush on it.
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Post by atash on Aug 14, 2010 18:46:20 GMT -5
No. There are at least some (probably a great many, actually) blue-skinned tomatoes that have green flesh when fully ripe. This makes it all the harder to tell when they are ripe. Haven't seen anything like that yet. I'll foreword your suggestion.
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Post by michaeljohnson on Aug 15, 2010 0:28:34 GMT -5
Don't forget, that they are only deemed to be ripe-when they turn bright RED on the backside of each tomato-so if all your tomatoes are sporting little red arses-pick e'm -if not -don't. Each year I grow the O.S.U. Blue and all it's Varients I continue to be fascinated by them year after year. I think Darth seems to have the best ground to grow them in as it seems to suit them very well, and we may all have to look to Darth in the future for more interesting variations of them that come to light- I don't actually eat a lot of them-just like looking at them on the vine. as I prefer pinks and reds for eating purposes.
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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 21, 2010 0:16:58 GMT -5
Don't forget, that they are only deemed to be ripe-when they turn bright RED on the backside of each tomato-so if all your tomatoes are sporting little red arses-pick e'm -if not -don't. Each year I grow the O.S.U. Blue and all it's Varients I continue to be fascinated by them year after year. I think Darth seems to have the best ground to grow them in as it seems to suit them very well, and we may all have to look to Darth in the future for more interesting variations of them that come to light- I don't actually eat a lot of them-just like looking at them on the vine. as I prefer pinks and reds for eating purposes. More from the giant Michael Johnson strain!! These beauties are amazing!! Dont think they have taste? Well they get a real stong 7 here, nice acid great sauce tomato!! i have 12 plants altogether, of michaels and I have penty of normal size ones from Alan, by the way, these guys gave me seeds for this when others were being very stingy!!
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