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Old December 17, 2012   #61
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Nice yes that Jade Beauty is a lovely tomato.
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Old December 17, 2012   #62
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Now that's a tomato plate for Christmas!
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Old December 17, 2012   #63
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Nice! Very seasonal colors for a Christmas salad! Jade Beauty really does stay dark green! I'll have to put it on a future list.
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Richard-A fellow tomato grower here where I live said it looked like Kiwi fruit!

Red-My wife and I will be taking some of these varieties to San Antonio to have for Christmas with our family there. Here's hoping we have some ripe fruit to take.
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Old December 17, 2012   #65
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I think you will like it. Its one of my favorite gwr tomatoes, if not my favorite.
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Old December 17, 2012   #66
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Michael,
I have grown tomatoes a long time, but I am a complete noob when it comes to green when ripe.

How do you even tell when they are ripe?
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Old December 17, 2012   #67
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Red

It takes practice. You cant wait for them to turn, so you have to do the squeeze test. You have to try a few when you first start growing gwr and soon you get the hang of it. Thats why Jade Beauty is a great variety-it produces a lot of fruit and you are able to get it right before you pick all your fruit.
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Old December 19, 2012   #68
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Harvest this morning, 12/19/2012.
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What was the deep red sliced on the lmate below the Jade? That looks wonderful!
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It was a Tastywine Black F-2
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The latest sliced up.
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Just picked these when we got back into town. Going to slice some up tonight. The first photo are all Tadesse.
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A nice dark red colour Michael
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What a lovely fruitful winter you always have, Michael!
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Richard-My Tadesse are original seed from Carolyn-seed from 1994 that several of us were able to get germinated. Since I had never seen the real Tadesse, it was interesting to see just how brightly red it is. Beautiful looking tomato.

Andrey-I learned greenhouse growing from you and many others! Its bitterly cold here for us, I just got up (6 a.m.) and its only 23 F, -5 C, and its surprising just how good these tomatoes taste. Of course, they are in the greenhouse growing, but its still cold in there.
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