Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
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Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
I got some seeds that were supposed to be Jim Dandy, and grew a plant in 2016, but it turned out to be a nippled, yellow, multiflora cherry with a taste similar to butterscotch icecream syrup. I'm growing it again, this year, and it's definitely a multiflora again!
Believe it or not, the portions that aren't coated in flowers belong to different tomato plants. This whole plant is covered like that. These pictures were taken a while ago. They've been turning into fruit for a while now (you can even see a few in the picture). I'm not sure how many fruits per truss we'll get.
This year, it seems similar to 2016, so far, except the plant doesn't have an upright bush habit, and the fruits are getting fatter. I'm not sure if they'll still be yellow, this year.
Believe it or not, the portions that aren't coated in flowers belong to different tomato plants. This whole plant is covered like that. These pictures were taken a while ago. They've been turning into fruit for a while now (you can even see a few in the picture). I'm not sure how many fruits per truss we'll get.
This year, it seems similar to 2016, so far, except the plant doesn't have an upright bush habit, and the fruits are getting fatter. I'm not sure if they'll still be yellow, this year.
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Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet
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Re: Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
That's a lot of flowers. Love to see that when fruited.
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Re: Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
Holy moly, that's a lot of flowers...
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Reminds me of Barry's Crazy Cherry, looking forward to seeing the ripe fruit
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Re: Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
Wow, that’s just insane!
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Re: Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
Thanks, everyone! I'm guessing we might get some ripe ones later this week. I could be wrong.
Okay, I just checked, and some are already ripe. I ate them all (after taking pictures). The first one I ate was sweet (a simple sweet) and a bit mushy. The biggest one tasted like Coyote with greater depth of flavor; an intiguing taste; very good. The others were tart (I'm guessing they weren't fully ripe, but they're usable in that state, and were not like partially ripe Coyote tomatoes); it's kind of a lot of tastes from one plant. They all had semi-thick skins, but not so thick as to lag behind on your tongue/teeth like wet paper. I didn't taste any butterscotch-type flavor. Only the first one was a bit mushy.
I'll probably grow more seeds from 2016 in future years to get more flavors (and hopefully thinner skin; it had thin skin in 2016), but I'm planning to save seeds from this and grow it again. I like it this year, though. We'll see what I think later on when I've had more.
The fruits didn't get much fatter, but the fruit shape isn't exactly the same as in 2016. The big fruit is bigger than any of those I had in 2016. All the fruits in 2016 were pretty much exactly the same size as each other (and looked just like Yellow Riesentraube's fruit; I grew that the same year; they tasted different, though).
Both pictures are of the same fruits (the same ones I ate, except for the mushy/sweet one that I ate outside; the one by my index finger is the big one that resembled Coyote):
Okay, I just checked, and some are already ripe. I ate them all (after taking pictures). The first one I ate was sweet (a simple sweet) and a bit mushy. The biggest one tasted like Coyote with greater depth of flavor; an intiguing taste; very good. The others were tart (I'm guessing they weren't fully ripe, but they're usable in that state, and were not like partially ripe Coyote tomatoes); it's kind of a lot of tastes from one plant. They all had semi-thick skins, but not so thick as to lag behind on your tongue/teeth like wet paper. I didn't taste any butterscotch-type flavor. Only the first one was a bit mushy.
I'll probably grow more seeds from 2016 in future years to get more flavors (and hopefully thinner skin; it had thin skin in 2016), but I'm planning to save seeds from this and grow it again. I like it this year, though. We'll see what I think later on when I've had more.
The fruits didn't get much fatter, but the fruit shape isn't exactly the same as in 2016. The big fruit is bigger than any of those I had in 2016. All the fruits in 2016 were pretty much exactly the same size as each other (and looked just like Yellow Riesentraube's fruit; I grew that the same year; they tasted different, though).
Both pictures are of the same fruits (the same ones I ate, except for the mushy/sweet one that I ate outside; the one by my index finger is the big one that resembled Coyote):
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Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet
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Re: Jim Dandy cross, multiflora yellow nippled cherry
I tasted some more, today, and those on the south side of the plant tasted really excellent! Very sweet, too. I went back and ate several more after I discovered that. Those on the north side of the plant were different.
The flowers sure don't all turn into fruit at once. They seem to do it a few at a time, and keep doing it steadily. Most of the flowers are still flowers, but there's plenty of fruit to eat.
The flowers sure don't all turn into fruit at once. They seem to do it a few at a time, and keep doing it steadily. Most of the flowers are still flowers, but there's plenty of fruit to eat.
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet