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Old April 17, 2018   #16
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Very interesting. The original Lithium Sunset was a yellow bicolor with yelllow stripes, but the photos here seem to show a red tomato with yellow stripes.
Mine were from a trade from someone who got the seeds from PaddyMC. Mine seem to be stable, and I think almost everyone here got their seeds from me.
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Old April 17, 2018   #17
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Marsha, that is a beautifully loaded down plant. Happy to hear that you too deemed it delicious, can't wait to taste it for myself!

Thought I would begin planting out tomorrow, but now the forecast is predicting night temps in the mid 30's for Thurs. and Fri. This is driving me nuts!
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Old April 17, 2018   #18
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And you have the red ones?

I think Charline grows the yellow bicolor (the original).

Seems like the lack of complaints about fruit softness may be due to the fact that the red variety represents a cross or variant, and it is not as bad as the bicolor version.

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Lithium Sunset is one tomato that I'm still searching for... all attempts to acquire it have been fruitless (pun not intended, but definitely appreciated!).

In the future, I hope that it is more widely available.
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Fred, I am assuming these are red, they came from the swap. I will be sure to revisit this thread and post pics here of progress.
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Old April 17, 2018   #21
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Lithium Sunset is one tomato that I'm still searching for... all attempts to acquire it have been fruitless (pun not intended, but definitely appreciated!).

In the future, I hope that it is more widely available.
Send me a pm with your addy, I will mail you some. Whatever mine are.
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And you have the red ones?

I think Charline grows the yellow bicolor (the original).

Seems like the lack of complaints about fruit softness may be due to the fact that the red variety represents a cross or variant, and it is not as bad as the bicolor version.
So even better. That cross Must have been a while ago. These are stable. Should we call it red lithium?
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Is it possible that, being a bi-color, that there is a natural variance in the amount of red/yellow?

I have scoured the internet for Lithium Sunset pictures and, typically, they are much less red than the picture of the previous page. But I have come across a couple of pictures of its fruit that seem to approach that level of 'redness'.


EDIT: Here is a picture of Charline's Lithium Sunset in 2015 that shows a 90% yellow dominate, another with about 60% yellow, and a final one with about 65% red.



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It's up to you. But I do think the red one should have a new name.


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So even better. That cross Must have been a while ago. These are stable. Should we call it red lithium?
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Old April 17, 2018   #25
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It's up to you. But I do think the red one should have a new name.
What do you all think? Red Lithium?
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Lithium Sunrise?

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Old April 18, 2018   #27
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I think I'll skip the naming exercise....
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Old April 18, 2018   #28
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I am going to name it Red Lithium. It looks exactly like Charline's, so I hope renaming is the right thing to do, but I trust Fred. I wish Charlene's photo showed a cut fruit, then we might be able to see the bi color.
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I completely disagree.

Yours are solid pink inside.

Hers are yellow with pink marbling inside.

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I am going to name it Red Lithium. It looks exactly like Charline's, so I hope renaming is the right thing to do, but I trust Fred. I wish Charlene's photo showed a cut fruit, then we might be able to see the bi color.
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I completely disagree.

Yours are solid pink inside.

Hers are yellow with pink marbling inside.
Yes, Fred, I didn't see the inside. I meant the outside of mine look same as the top 2 in the Charline photo. I was not trying to say they actually were the same, very sorry.
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