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Old August 15, 2006   #1
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A very interesting tomato ..indeed
Seeds were sent to me by our very own Tomstrees.

The first one I had was good and ripe, I wouldn't say over-ripe as the consistency was not mushy.
It had sweetness and a blush of crimson that strongly reminded me of a real good bi-color.


The tomato above is shown just to the left of this big boy. It was 8 ounces.


That big fella is more the norm than the little one. This tomato plant can turn out some whoppers. I call that shape 'Popeye chin' it's not catfaced or multi-lobed per se ..It just looks like Popeye's chin after Bluto let him have it. You get a lot of Popeye chins with Tom's Yellow Wonder.

This is a juicy complex tasting tomato. The consistency of the flesh is perfect, it melts in your mouth.
You get a burst of flavor right off the bat, not over-whelming but fruity by no means mild.
The over-all flavor is mellow and fruity with a hint of sweetness after the initial burst.

I'm glad I grew it, it has out performed any other large yellow in my garden this year.

Thanks for the seeds Tom

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Old August 15, 2006   #2
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Happy for your success Bully and
am glad TYW has won you over.

Tom is a sharp fellow who although
believed in this mater, has remained
nearly silent and guardedly optimistic
about it until further grow-outs.

I still have hope for a decent mater
or two from a surrogate garden, but
will have to get there soon before
they and their seeds vanish....JJ61
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Old August 15, 2006   #3
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Here's hoping that seed will be offered in the 2007 SSE Catalogue ...
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Old August 16, 2006   #4
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Truly a "working name"

Glad you enjoyed it Bully ~
As I've meantioned before,
I initially bought a "Wonderlight"
tomato at a roadside stand -
I saved seed, but the following year,
thats not what showed up in my garden!

As Bully meantioned this is way different
from your average "yellow" in regards to taste
and size ...
I was fortunate enough to find out
recently from my Aunt who knows that
lady that grew the first
tom, that her plants of "Wonderlight"
were inbetween rows of Persimmon & Pineapple ~
So that lets me know alittle bit of the back ground
of where the cross came from ...

Its still unstable because my fruits this year have a
"point" at the bottom, and they looked similiar but not the exact SAME as Bullys fruits ~


Last year the fruits looked like this:









and this year:








I still have to mail one up to Carolyn for tasting
and further observation (locules, flavor, etc.)
I will become a memeber of SSE this year -
but in the meantime, if you would like to
"help" with the grow out, PM me ~

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Old August 16, 2006   #5
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Tom,
I've got fruits on my TYW's, golfball sized now but hoping for some "44DD" bra sized ones. Thanks Tom for a real real good one. It pays to be curious and save seed from the unusual ones. Saving "contraband" ain't all bad !!!!

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Old August 16, 2006   #6
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Spud,

I'd fall off my chair if you
got a "reverted" tom, back
to its original form and not a big gun ! lol ~
Keep me posted with all thats going on
down there ~

I will note:
this morning all green toms on my plants have
pointed ends ~
I think thats the direction in fruit shape I want to go ~

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Old August 16, 2006   #7
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While we are on nice yellows, the Reinhard Kraft Green Giant seed regular leaf seedling I planted ended up producing many of these -






Not the Reg Leaf green I was hoping for, but a delicious, flavorful, fine yellow that is on the tart side...a keeper (of course, it may not be stable yet...so more work on it is needed)
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Ooooh, Craig... I'd say that's definitely a keeper. Do you think that's a cross?

I really like the look of the interior.. Yellow all the way through, too.. I would have expected more marbling, but I think the thin pink ribbon in the center looks even better. What is the texture like?

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Nice tomatoes you guys are growing in the Garden State. Notice my Location info (until Saturday that is).
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John,

I think I already let you know, if you
have room I could mail seeds to you for the
big yellow ~ aka "Toms Yellow Wonder" (working name)

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I have extra seed, if anyone wants to try it out !

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Tom,

You have mail. Looking good and very interesting.

Perhaps we are at the frontier, the coalface, of pioneering a whole new cailbre of yellows with dynamic taste?

I have made a spot for one.

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re: Grub:
Perhaps we are at the frontier, the coalface, of pioneering a whole new cailbre of yellows with dynamic taste?

re:
Thats whats truly amazed me -
First the huge tomato from a small one ~
The ? Great flavor ~
We were really wowed ...
And with some luck you will too !

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wow ~
What a response !
I'm gonna close my offer for seed
for this one until I get more ripe maters !!!

~ Tom

ps.
Thanks for everyones interest !
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I'm looking forward to growing this in my garden. What a massive and huge and yummy and slurpy looking tomato!

T, who loves massive, huge, yummy, slurpy tomatoes!
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