Pandora's Box

frogsleap farm · December 23, 2011

Last summer one of my breeding lines generated a unique segregant that really got my attention. Orange and striped on the outside, and bright lime green inside. Working name is Pandora's Box.

cornbreadlouie · December 23, 2011

Whoa that looks amazing. Lemme know if you ever want somebody to grow it!!!

Really cool color combination.

Raffles · December 23, 2011

How was the flavor?

frogsleap farm · December 23, 2011

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Originally Posted by Raffles

How was the flavor?

Taste was very good. The only negative, and it's an important one here in MN, is that this plant was very late. I'm hoping I can find segregants in the next generation that are stable for the color combo and with earlier fruit.

Wi-sunflower · December 23, 2011

Could the lateness be partly the blame of the cool crummy weather we had last "summer" ??

I know here in Wi, we didn't really have a spring and summer didn't get here til about mid to late July.

Maybe with a normal summer it will be more of a normal ripe time.

Carol

frogsleap farm · December 24, 2011

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Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Could the lateness be partly the blame of the cool crummy weather we had last "summer" ??

I know here in Wi, we didn't really have a spring and summer didn't get here til about mid to late July.

Maybe with a normal summer it will be more of a normal ripe time.

Carol

Yep, not an ideal year. To complicate comparisons in earliness, a late spring hail storm took off the growing points on half my plants. KBX was one of the parents and is pretty late here, so that's partly why I assumed the worst.

tessa · December 24, 2011

i volunteer to try them out down here where the summer is 6 months long!

Shane · December 24, 2011

Very nice id love to give it a try

ill contact you

S

Fred Hempel · December 24, 2011

Was it productive once it got going?

doublehelix · December 24, 2011

That's a lot of recessive genes going on there. Good catch.

**carolyn137** · December 24, 2011

Remind mind me Mark, what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?

frogsleap farm · December 24, 2011

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Originally Posted by carolyn137

Remind mind me Mark, what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?

In the myth, the opening of Pandora's Box introduced evil into the world. My intent was to capture the notion that you can't tell a book by it's cover - or the inside of a tomato from the outside.

doublehelix · December 24, 2011

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Originally Posted by carolyn137

what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened?

The comments I could make...but I won't

Let me know if you don't use that name. I think I might have a new tomato that would be more fitting of the name.

frogsleap farm · January 1, 2012

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Originally Posted by doublehelix

The comments I could make...but I won't

Let me know if you don't use that name. I think I might have a new tomato that would be more fitting of the name.

I think I'll keep the working name Pandora's Box. I like the box full of surprises metaphor, though in this case the surprises are good, not evil.

Bama mater · January 1, 2012

Very nice lookin mater there Frog, Glad to hear the taste is there also.

December 23, 2011	#2
cornbreadlouie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: SF bay area... north bay Posts: 242	Whoa that looks amazing. Lemme know if you ever want somebody to grow it!!! Really cool color combination. __________________ Do You Like Worms?

December 23, 2011	#3
Raffles Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Northern Vermont Posts: 147	How was the flavor? __________________ Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. *-Calvin Coolidge*

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carolyn137 Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 12,229	Remind mind me Mark, what was it that flew out of Pandora's box when it was opened? __________________ Carolyn

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December 23, 2011	#5
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,960	Could the lateness be partly the blame of the cool crummy weather we had last "summer" ?? I know here in Wi, we didn't really have a spring and summer didn't get here til about mid to late July. Maybe with a normal summer it will be more of a normal ripe time. Carol

December 24, 2011	#7
tessa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: perth, western australia Posts: 1,009	i volunteer to try them out down here where the summer is 6 months long!

December 24, 2011	#8
Shane Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Cheyenne Posts: 5	Very nice id love to give it a try ill contact you S

December 24, 2011	#9
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 425	Was it productive once it got going?

December 24, 2011	#10
doublehelix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Central Arkansas Posts: 158	That's a lot of recessive genes going on there. Good catch.

January 1, 2012	#15
Bama mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 271	Very nice lookin mater there Frog, Glad to hear the taste is there also.