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Originally Posted by agamemnon
I am new here. I am interested in working on a large black plum. I love the Opalka plum for size and meatiness, but I am looking for a truly black version, and all the black plums seem a bit on the small size. Would be happy to try this home breeding thing on my own, but looking for suggestions...
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Actually Opalka isn't plum shaped, it's a long red and it's one I introduced so I do know about it.
But if you're loooking for a similar shape in a black you might look at the Black Icicle one offered by Baker Creek;
http://rareseeds.com/vegetables-p-z/...le-tomato.html
And then look at tania's tomato base site to get some back ground on it:
http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Black_Icicle
Tania did almost all of the background info on these icicle ones,there are several, and I think there's a thread here at Tville about them , well, I know there is, and she graciously posted her information at idig, which is the Baker Creek message site.
From the picture at BC it looks kinda like, well, I don't know, call it a plum, call it a non plum, but it doesn't have the same shape as do Opalka and Sarnowski Polish Plum or Howard German or many that do look like Opalka.
For me a plum shape is much wider and doesn't taper down as much and Gianinni would be a good example or Tyborowski Polish Plum, pictures at Tania's site I think.
But there you go, a kind of maybe plum, maybe not, that's very dark colored but not true black but I don't even know of a variety that's ALL black all the time.