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Old April 21, 2009   #1
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This is what I call Craig's Pink. It's a pink potato leaf I got from Craig. It's doing so well! This and Ben Gantz are definitely coming along really well.

Then I noticed a little weird thing going on. When I say I've never seen it before, it's not like Carolyn or Craig saying it, but I've never seen this tendril effect of the leaf. It does unfurl so I'm not saying it's a problem, it's just different.

Sorry if the photo is big. I haven't used photobucket in a long time.

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Barb, I associate tendrils with peas and morning glories and all sorts of climbing things, but not with tomatoes.

I see what you mean, though, the leaf at the left hand side that's kinda twisted and a bit upside down.

It's just having a wee temper tantrum and will calm down and grow right before you know it.

Sometimes you'll see lots of upside down twisted leaves with young seedlings that disappear when the plants are older, but in my experience much less so with fully mature plants, and when I start to see deformed leaves with older plants I'm not thinking tendrils, I'm thinking possible disease.
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Old April 21, 2009   #3
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Exactly, Carolyn, peas! That's what these look like. Look at all the spikes. Here's an even better (and smaller!) view

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OK, now I see what you mean. I didn't see that in the other picture.

I do think I've seen it a couple of times but I was always growing so darn many varieties each season that I probably didn't followup with it.

So let us know what those tendrils do, but we do know you aren't going to get peas off them.
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uhhhmmm - thats a very cool looking tomato plant !

Please keep us posted with how that plant grows

I'd love to see if those leaves continue curling
or if they ever "relax" and grow normal - def. looks like cuke tendrils to me

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Maybe Craig will have some insight into this coolness, since he's the origin.
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Barb, here's a tendril fuzzball that is also from Craig. Check out the "sticky" in the Tomato Research and Development Forum.

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You win, Ted. Yours is more weird than mine. (Way more!)

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I think Craig might be trying to take over the world! I have some seedlings that got started later than my others from him (they look fine). I also have hot peppers from the research project. I think these tomatoes are trying to tell us something, time for the men in black!
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PS Curious which plants are you both growing again? Wonderingif it is from the same plant.
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Kat, mine is from his 05-69 PL6 seeds. And you may be right about the MIB. I had some strange lights in the mater patch last night.

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should be real interesting if you guys get tomatoes from these plants !
Keep us posted !!!

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Ted, also let us know if that plant starts acting like it's in a musical and says, "Feed me!" in a deep, deep baritone.
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That tendril leaf characteristic showed up in the Lucky Cross/Little Lucky line (Brandywine X Tad ? some heart shaped variety) that the bees appeared to produce in my garden in 1993. It seems that no matter which of the F2, F3, etc selections I grow (well, by the time you get to F6 it goes away for the most part), you get a small percentage of seedlings that have some sort of oddball recessive trait for spindly foliage - I really like the tendril terminology! I've also seen it in both RL and PL offspring.

As I think I said once, a friend who grew out some of my early generation Lucky Cross managed to get a tendril plant to produce, and the fruit were highly lobed and misshapen.
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Craig, all this is good to know! ("Tendril" is my present to you, a small compensation for all the tomatoes. )

I started 6 Craig's Pink, 5 are tendril so I have a real knack for picking those seeds. I'm glad to know what the future hold for them.

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