WMD-313gf

[travis]

Have to pick these half ripe to stay ahead of the cottontail rascals.

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This is a line of purple tomatoes (red flesh stained with retained chlorophyll, and clear epidermis) that I'm working on with a goal of jumbo, smooth, crack resistant, flavorful tomatoes on a semi-determinate vine. One parent is Cherokee Purple.

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by travis

Have to pick these half ripe to stay ahead of the cottontail rascals.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...99826164_n.jpg

This is a line of purple tomatoes (red flesh stained with retained chlorophyll, and clear epidermis) that I'm working on with a goal of jumbo, smooth, crack resistant, flavorful tomatoes on a semi-determinate vine. One parent is Cherokee Purple.

Aren't the rascals from river city, not cottontail?

Nice looking tomatoes, Travis.

Gary

[carolyn137]

Bill, then what was it I saw in the 19 pages of mostly unstable varieties at marianne's site called WMD, aka Weapons of Mass Destruction, and why was it called that?

Carolyn

[travis]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Bill, then what was it I saw in the 19 pages of mostly unstable varieties at marianne's site called WMD, aka Weapons of Mass Destruction, and why was it called that?

Carolyn

I'm not going to address that comment in full. Too loaded.

I will say that WMD is a designation for a group of tomato lines that I am developing from an original cross I made using Cherokee Purple. The cross was made, if I remember correctly, in 2008, or maybe 2007. I don't care to look up the exact date at this time.

The goal of the cross is to arrive at a Jumbo, nearly uniform size, crack resistant, purple (red flesh stained by retained chlorophyll, with clear epidermis), smooth, flattened globe with slightly ruffled shoulders, on a semi-determinate, 5-foot vine.

I'm getting very close to the goal with the vines that are producing the tomatoes shown in the photo in the OP.

The only other thing I wish to respond to in your comment is that I have asked repeatedly that others who are growing these lines not represent any results as stable at this time, and not to use "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a variety name. That was never the intent.

By the way, for anyone who is interested, the other parent was a uniform ripening (u/u) clear pink, slightly flattened globe with pinpoint blossom scar on an aggressive determinate vine. And I have lines that are u/u, both pink and purple, the purple being very beautiful when seen fully ripened without green shoulders.

[JamesL]

Good looking tomato!

[carolyn137]

I'm not going to address that comment in full. Too loaded.

$$$$$

Bill, I did NOT intend to post a loaded question. I just didn't want to go thru those 19 pages again trying to find it and see if the numbers matched.

Perhaps it was a thread here, I'm not sure, but that's where I found out that WMD stood for Weapons of Mass Destruction, which I thought was a terrible name to give a tomato line.

Again, was it here that it was also noteed that there were I think several in those19 pages that had Sumertime as partof the name. And the word Summertime came from a couple of the ones named Summertime Green and SummertimeGold, fromthe Dwarf project here.

It was Grub in Australia who developed them and named them after his new daughter who was named Summer.

Where possible, I like to know where stuff comes from when talking tomatos.

Carolyn

[travis]

I've grown Summertime Green and Summertime Gold. They came from the Sneezy line, and like the other Sneezies, they are quite good. My favorites are Summer Sunrise and Emerald Dwarf Champion.

You won't find WMD-313gf in those "19 pages" to which you refer, because this is the first time I've used that designation. It refers to 2013, F3, and the gf gene.

And if you could see the production on these babies, then WMD would not seem so inappropriate. We're talking about flower clusters every other internode with 4 and 5 fruit set per cluster on a compact, semi-determinate vine!

[peppero]

travis, best wishes on reaching your goal.

jon

[kath]

Originally Posted by travis

This is a line of purple tomatoes (red flesh stained with retained chlorophyll, and clear epidermis) that I'm working on with a goal of jumbo, smooth, crack resistant, flavorful tomatoes on a semi-determinate vine.

Yes, what Jon said, Travis. They look beautiful and your goal sounds like my tomato dream.

kath

[travis]

Originally Posted by kath

Yes, what Jon said, Travis. They look beautiful and your goal sounds like my tomato dream.

kath

Thank you. I guess my goal, in short, is a jumbo Cherokee Purple appearance and flavor on a Celebrity type vine.

[Barbee]

What's not to love about a tomato bigger than a baseball?!
Good luck!

[Sun City Linda]

Originally Posted by travis

Thank you. I guess my goal, in short, is a jumbo Cherokee Purple appearance and flavor on a Celebrity type vine.

Sounds really great. I am not getting any younger and big tall plants don't really work for me anymore!