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Old June 3, 2018   #31
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Sat there stunted not growing for quite a while. This was about the beginning of May
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Then, something very unusual, it began to show new, double normal growth tips from BELOW the cotyledons.
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Old June 3, 2018   #33
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Go Pomidor Paw! Nature often finds a way! I hope it will have enough vigor to grow and set some fruit for new seeds for you.
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Old June 3, 2018   #34
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And once it decided to survive it grew fast. This is the day it was planted out in its pot in the garden two weeks ago
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Old June 3, 2018   #35
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Wow! It's making up for lost time! Must have developed a good root system while it was waiting for the leaves!
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Old June 3, 2018   #36
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And today. My Pomidor Paw is back in business. I am so grateful to Dorota for finding the seed and my friend in Illinois has two plants growing from the seeds I passed on to him also so the future of the variety should be a little more secure.
I am excited to taste them and will save seed for certain.
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Looks very vigorous! I was glad to read this exciting story of that variety! Hopefully it will fruit well for all of you who are growing it.
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Old June 24, 2018   #38
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Interesting unusually large blossoms.
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Old June 24, 2018   #39
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Wow you go girl! Can’t wait to see how it does. Great stuff Karen!
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Old July 13, 2018   #40
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Unusually vertical growth habit. All the branches, even the laterals grow upwards. It looks like a Christmas tree 🎄 setting smallish fruit now. Leaves are rugose, dark green. I’ve never grown a plant that looks quite like it.
Interesting.
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Old July 13, 2018   #41
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Is your friend in Illinois also experiencing this upward stretch on his plants? It seems like it should be a characteristic of the variety, but given your plants weird start ...?
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Yes his as well although it’s more obvious in this multi stem one
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Old July 13, 2018   #43
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That's the thing I love about tomatoes -- such a variety in leaf types and growth habit. Not to mention size, color and taste!
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KarenO:

What a great story of search, research, victory, near cotyledon disaster and then triumph . . . but how were the tomatoes???

cherry, saladette, beefsteak?
red?

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Old January 1, 2019   #45
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Hello, they were pink, saladette. Very good flavour on an interesting plant with that oddly upright growth habit.
Folks in the mmmm might get some seeds, I sent it in.
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