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July 5, 2017 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Beautiful Lobed Mortgage Lifter
Look at this beauty! The first few trusses on this Mortgage Lifter made these beautiful lobed tomatoes. I'm in love and my family just doesn't understand 😂
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July 5, 2017 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I have never seen one look like that.
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July 6, 2017 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Texas Coastal Bend
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I hope mine looks like that in the fall. When am I supposed to direct start seeds for fall growing here? I haven't a clue. But I don't want to use cups and everything else this season and I don't want to buy plants. I just want to try out nature and see how it works out with direct seeding. I can always pull the plant and replant it in the same container to make it think it was transplanted, lol.
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August 16, 2017 | #4 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Central Texas - Zone 8A
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Rockporter - here is a good sheet that I use, but it is more for central Texas. I would imagine you should start direct sowing fairly soon, maybe within the next month after it (hopefully) starts to cool off a bit. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/t...ideJan2015.pdf |
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July 6, 2017 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Beautiful!
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July 6, 2017 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: SE PA
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If you like that look you should try costoluto genovese.
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July 6, 2017 | #7 | |
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Here's the well known Quisenberry one http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/M...uisenberry%27s and here's the Estler one http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/M...er,_Estler%27s I've grown many of them,but to be honest I've never seen one with so many deep lobes that yours has. If you feel comfortable about it could you share with us where your seeds were from and how they were labelled as to which ML version? Thanks, Carolyn
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July 6, 2017 | #8 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I purchased these seeds from Baker's Creek this year. I'm not sure that they are labeled anything other than Mortgage Lifter. I've grown them in previous years but they never looked like this. I think these ones are quite stunning! |
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July 6, 2017 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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a deeply lobed fruit and is that potato leaf foliage I am seeing... cannot be mortgage lifter of any strain imo. Did you grow it from seed or was it purchased as a plant
whatever it is it is a very nice looking tomato and I hope you enjoy it, I bet it will be delicious. KarenO Last edited by KarenO; July 6, 2017 at 11:13 AM. |
July 6, 2017 | #10 | |
Tomatovillian™
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July 6, 2017 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
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Won't be the first time people got the wrong seeds from them.
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July 6, 2017 | #12 |
Tomatovillian™
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July 6, 2017 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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How big are they?
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July 6, 2017 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Well I haven't measured them yet but I'd say this one was bigger than a baseball so far. I don't expect that it's finished growing yet.
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July 6, 2017 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Very interested in this tomato.
You wont hear that from me often. Worth |
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