Striped Hearts
Are there any? I have one growing now and am trying to figure out if it is a cross or something else. Seeds were from trade and marked as Black and Red Boar.
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Striped Sweetheart and Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart.
Are all the fruits on the Black and Red Boar plant clearly hearts? |
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Yes, these are the ones we had talked about. They are still small and green, but all hearts, and showing stripes. And the foliage is not wispy at all, just RL.
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[QUOTE=Mudman;283562]Yes, these are the ones we had talked about. They are still small and green, but all hearts, and showing stripes. And the foliage is not wispy at all, just RL.[/QUOTE]
Oops, sorry- I missed the other discussion. Wow, they sure are hearts! Well, you know we all love a good mystery, especially if it ends with a great tasting tomato.:cute: kath |
heart tomatoes, beautiful. Until I came here I had never heard of one. That tells ya how deprived I've been with the different varieties that are available.
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[QUOTE=Mudman;283539]Are there any? I have one growing now and am trying to figure out if it is a cross or something else. Seeds were from trade and marked as Black and Red Boar.[/QUOTE]
Yes, there's Striped Sweetheart that Lee worked on as a selection from the original cross between Brandywine and Tad that led to Lucky Cross and others. The striping comes from Tad. I grew it, Lee sent it to Jeff who owns Heirlooms of Airdrie in Canada and I found with my growout that the fruits were not really hearts and Jeff found the same. I told Lee about it and he said he thought it needed more work. He does SSE list it in the 2012 Yearbook and describesd it as a 4 oz fruit with heart/oblate fruits and then describes the striping. Edited to add that a neighbor stopped by when I was doing my original post which would have been the first one and I just continued with mine when she left without reading who had answered before me. |
[QUOTE=kath;283568]Oops, sorry- I missed the other discussion. Wow, they sure are hearts! Well, you know we all love a good mystery, especially if it ends with a great tasting tomato.:cute:
kath[/QUOTE] We discussed it in PM. Seeds from you. :yes: Have you grown any of the varieties listed above? |
[QUOTE=Mudman;283575]We discussed it in PM. Seeds from you. :yes: Have you grown any of the varieties listed above?[/QUOTE]
:))Oh, THOSE seeds!:oops:A duh moment if there ever was one.:roll: Nope, haven't grown either one...yet. I'll try to stay tuned and follow this thread.:? kath |
Well, Striped Sweetheart is PL so that can't be it. I will have to check for size and color when they are ripe and see if they match up with Berkeley Tie-Dye. If not I guess I will have a new cross to try to stabilize.:D
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Still not ripe, but amazingly this plant has set about 20 fruit and unlike my other heart varieties they are all perfectly heart shaped. They are also a bit smaller than my Anna Russian and my Sterling Old Norway. Is Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart a smaller heart?
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[QUOTE=Mudman;289333]Still not ripe, but amazingly this plant has set about 20 fruit and unlike my other heart varieties they are all perfectly heart shaped. They are also a bit smaller than my Anna Russian and my Sterling Old Norway. Is Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart a smaller heart?[/QUOTE]
Your pic doesn't look like Berkeley Tie Die Heart. BTDH has several different shapes of fruit and I haven't seen any that look like a strawberry. For me the fruit is medium sized 6-8 oz. Check out the Wild Boar Farm website and Tania's Tomatobase for some pics of mature BTDH fruit. |
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[QUOTE=Mudman;289333]Still not ripe, but amazingly this plant has set about 20 fruit and unlike my other heart varieties they are all perfectly heart shaped. They are also a bit smaller than my Anna Russian and my Sterling Old Norway. Is Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart a smaller heart?[/QUOTE]
Here is a pic of my Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart. It doesn't look like your mystery fruit. BTDH fruit is quite irregular.[ATTACH]26567[/ATTACH] |
Thanks Scott. Looking at yours and some others makes me pretty sure I have something all new. The leaves look different too. Mine are pretty large dark green regular leave with more rounded edges than yours. Now I am really excited to taste them!
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Here are some quick pics of this one that I took tonight. I almost missed them because I was not expecting the green skin. Taste was very good for my first ripe one of the season. A very nice surprise! (will post better pictures when I locate my camera):oops:
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MMMMMMMMMMMMM...Delicious looking and very good looking as well!!
Julia |
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