View Single Post
Old September 15, 2007   #56
korney19
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Co-Founder
 
korney19's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Niagara Frontier
Posts: 942
Default

A couple comments.

Rio Grande is actually VFF not VFN. My original source was Chuck Wyatt... perhaps in 2000 or 2001. I know Fusion is saying that my pic doesn't look like a large plum, but mine were always variably shaped, never always the same on 1 plant. It's often described as "blocky round" and sometimes mine look more globe or deep globe shaped than plum. The plant has dark green rugose leaves.

I looked at TGS as well as Tanager's and both have different looking shapes. I think I may even have a seed packet somewhere from Pennington Seed and they also look more deep globe than plum if I remember correctly.

As for the white line you're talking about, I've never noticed it, neither with Chuck's or Pennington's. Maybe you can post a pic of it.

Another pic of Rio Grande:

http://www.tanagersongfarm.com/heirl...ogrande00w.jpg
korney19 is offline   Reply With Quote