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July 9, 2014 | #136 |
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That's impressive!...Especially considering your environment. Getting fruit to set must be a real challenge. In Albuquerque we are having low to mid 90's, but it is so dry I am watering like crazy, and fighting some early blight.
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July 9, 2014 | #137 |
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I've found over the years it is the large massive plant varieties that bear fruit on the interior of the plants. Our humidity is even lower than yours so the evaporation effect keeps the interior of the plants much cooler than outside temps. Like your climate the plant also has to endure early spring nights of low temps then handle extreme heat during the summer months and start again for a fall crop. This cross Chris allowed me to trial has been a great variety for my climate. Not to mention these f2 seeds each grow something different.
One of my sons just moved to Albuquerque from Las Cruses this year and he's still trying to adjust to your climate with his small veggie patch.
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July 9, 2014 | #138 | |
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Good to hear! How's the taste? Cant tell if you have stripes either.
If anything is worth growing again save the F3 seed from the plant. Don't be afraid to cull the bad plants...I know, it's hard... Juliet is supposed to have some LB and EB resistance, don't know if you ever see that in your climate, but if you do and there seems to be a difference between siblings as far as disease occurrence don't save seed of the susceptible line(s), unless it's really awesome in some other way. Quote:
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July 9, 2014 | #139 |
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I have EB and RKN's in my garden and all plants of JxGZ have shown strong resistance to both of these. I prefer the oval shape red with gold stripes. It is most productive and will be the variety I use for drying. The yellow one has gold stripes that are very faint, but are there. It is a typical yellow tomato taste .. bland. I also will be using these as my root stock for grafting. I used a few this year and these are great in my garden.
The yellow one has very few seeds, but is too juicy for me to use it as a paste or drying variety. The round one is simply not productive enough to use. The oval shaped one has very thick walls and a good taste with good production. I also grew three JxSR this year and again ber on all early fruit and some EB problems. I won't be using this variety anymore.
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July 10, 2014 | #140 | |
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Thanks for the update. You're on your way to creating your own unique family line!
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July 10, 2014 | #141 |
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Chris, You are welcome to any of these described... I've saved some from each if you want seeds out of this f2 batch.
Thanks again, for letting me grow these out. It has been very worth while for this variety I'm isolating.
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August 23, 2014 | #142 |
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Anyone else follow-up on any of the lines I sent originally? Would love to hear about results.
I'm really interested in GZ x BFT since the F1 is getting good reviews in this thread. A colleague grew one F2 plant and got a nice striped fruit. His plant was not in a good location though so hard to assess the plant and fruit quality. I've sent F2 seed to another that was going to do a larger growout but haven't heard back.
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August 23, 2014 | #143 | |
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August 23, 2014 | #144 |
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Here are a couple of pix of the F2 fruit from my colleague. It was ~2.6 oz. I didn't taste it as it was pretty over-ripe. Color is a tiny bit off due to the lighting in the kitchen. It's a pretty tomato.
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January 4, 2015 | #145 |
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I grew the crosses that I liked last year and the tomatoes were not as pretty as f-1 but were very good eating my two favorite the Chocolate cherry x Juliet cross very good and the Juliet x green zebra cross was my favorite eating of all tomatoes that I grew 53 variety's. Sun Gold x Black From Tula was ok I did save seed for all. would you like some or just grow them out again...
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January 5, 2015 | #146 | |
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Glad you posted! Any pictures of the F2s (esp of CC x Juliet & Juliet x GZ)? Don't need seed back right now but if you grow the F3s I'd love to see/hear how they do for you in 2015.
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March 3, 2015 | #147 |
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As far as photo's I am looking I do see piles of tomato pictures with them in it but several others as well but the photo that Salsacharley put up looks just like my tomatoes but three different plants. the sun gold x black from tula looks just like that first tomato. the second tomato looks just like the Green zebra x juliet also my favorite yum and the third was the chocolate cherry juliet cross was also delish but they looked just like that photo.
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March 3, 2015 | #148 |
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the one on the left is the Sun gold x black from tula cross the other was a bee cross with a gary 'osena
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March 24, 2015 | #149 |
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sad, I can not find the seed for the Sun Gold x Black from Tula cross I have looked everywhere I even have the original seed packet...but I have dropped the seed for the other two
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