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Originally Posted by Mudman
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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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.