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Old July 6, 2017   #91
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you saw the pictures... business in front, party in the back...on my Northern Gardener Page
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Old July 12, 2017   #92
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Starting to really get going. This has always been a productive variety for me and these photos show some big greenies coming along. The interesting almost pleated shoulder ridges are distinctive and I believe unusual as seen here.
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Old July 12, 2017   #93
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Wow, those are some gorgeous tomatoes!
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Old July 19, 2017   #94
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Thanks Darin It is capable of making pretty large fruit. this one looks like a pumpkin
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Hi Karen, I just went through this thread for the first time, and I am very impressed with your procedures. If I am following your posts correctly it looks like you sowed the seeds around Feb 10, got sprouts Feb 14 (happy Valentines day), moved the sprouts to their own pots around Mar 23, then into containers around Apr 15, and then into beds around May 18. Now you have big unripe fruit. Of course you probably didn't post pictures the exact day you made your transplants, but it looks like you moved you plants up to a larger medium about each month of growth. I look forward to pics of blushing fruit. Do you use this procedure for all your tomatoes? Thanks for sharing.
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Old July 19, 2017   #96
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Hi SalsaCharlie,
These were special pets started earlier than usual and potted up twice due to starting early. They went from a gallon container to the garden about May 20. Ate the first (deformed) ripe fruit about two weeks ago. and a couple of other seedless and imperfect others since. I am waiting for a really typical ripe one to show, have some mature green and should turn in the next week or so. I will post photo's of interior as well at that time, I just want to show a nice one that is typical of they way they should look not the catfaced earlies although there are photo's elsewhere in the ugliest tomato thread of one of those
normally I sow seed first day of spring (March21) and pot up once then plant out sometime in the last two weeks of May dependant on weather, pretty standard for my usual procedure.
These were treated differently because of the old seed and because I made a little project of them because they are special to me.
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Old July 26, 2017   #97
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Almost there, Karen! Have you sliced into that blusher yet?
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Old August 2, 2017   #99
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Meaty and Solid few seeds especially in the earlier fruits of thevs season
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Looks like the solid meatiness of a heart, how cool to find it in a different shape. Looks like seeds will be at a premium, though!
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They are super round blunt hearts
The Shape is unusual and unique among all the tomatoes I have grown. Not a beefsteak or a globe, they are blunt oxhearts with ridged shoulders. Later fruit will have more seeds but still few in comparison to the size and seeds are not all that easy to save as a result.
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They are super round blunt hearts
The Shape is unusual and unique among all the tomatoes I have grown. Not a beefsteak or a globe, they are blunt oxhearts with ridged shoulders. Later fruit will have more seeds but still few in comparison to the size and seeds are not all that easy to save as a result.
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Karen, I call these two blunt hearts,so something like these two?

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Look at photos in the thread above. Some views from the side.
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The plants still doing well, ripening some big fruits well over a pound. The plants themselves are healthy, no signs of any serious foliage issues. It's been hot and dry conditions, forest fire smoke from the mainland for a few days. No rain in Ladysmith for 50+ days, daily water has become quite a chore and carefully so they don't split.
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Is that just one plant? Great production! I think it's liking your unusually hot summer.
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