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travis · February 5, 2015

Here's a small fruited example of "Early Girl PL" I found.

I'm going to say that tomato was grown in 2006 from a plant I found in a flat of otherwise regular leaf Early Girl transplants at a farm supply store.

Here are tomatoes from two different plants, one plant was an "Early Girl PL" I found at a local nursery shown next to tomatoes and leaves from a true Early Girl F1 hybrid plant I bought at the same nursery from the same batch of transplants (I think these were grown probably in 2007).

I think this clearly shows wrong seed (self-pollinated) from the female breeding line used to produce F1 Early Girl seed. I figure the female breeding line is very similar to Bloody Butcher or Matina.

February 5, 2015	#8
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Here's a small fruited example of "Early Girl PL" I found. I'm going to say that tomato was grown in 2006 from a plant I found in a flat of otherwise regular leaf Early Girl transplants at a farm supply store. Here are tomatoes from two different plants, one plant was an "Early Girl PL" I found at a local nursery shown next to tomatoes and leaves from a true Early Girl F1 hybrid plant I bought at the same nursery from the same batch of transplants (I think these were grown probably in 2007). I think this clearly shows wrong seed (self-pollinated) from the female breeding line used to produce F1 Early Girl seed. I figure the female breeding line is very similar to Bloody Butcher or Matina. Last edited by travis; February 6, 2015 at 11:01 AM. Reason: add "2007" as date of final photo