For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet

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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet

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Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:42 pm

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, but my bounty is green. My Juliets no longer ripen because they fall from the plant well before first blush. The plant is surviving about as well as my others that are producing. I am wondering if I am neglecting my Juliet somehow or if this is her temperamental nature.
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Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:03 am

Even if they are green in time they'll turn red.
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Mon Sep 19, 2022 1:06 pm

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the least, and Juliet is the pun.

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Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

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Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:07 pm

I must gander at such references to a goose.

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Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:49 pm

I don’t speak Greek so I don’t know what everyone is saying, but those are the oddest looking Juliets I’ve ever seen. Mine are always very regular uniform grapes on long trusses.
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Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:18 pm

I would suspect they need some extra nutrition of some kind, but I don't know. I've never grown the F1, but the F2 got a disease when it was a few inches tall, and I pulled it up. The F1's fruits (which my neighbor gave to me) sure tasted good, though.
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Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:27 pm

Mark_Thompson wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:49 pm I don’t speak Greek so I don’t know what everyone is saying, but those are the oddest looking Juliets I’ve ever seen. Mine are always very regular uniform grapes on long trusses.
I had that happen to a Sungold plant. The fruits were misshapen. The culprit was herbicide drift.
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Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:47 pm

SpookyShoe wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:27 pm
Mark_Thompson wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:49 pm I don’t speak Greek so I don’t know what everyone is saying, but those are the oddest looking Juliets I’ve ever seen. Mine are always very regular uniform grapes on long trusses.
I had that happen to a Sungold plant. The fruits were misshapen. The culprit was herbicide drift.
I once had a SunGold plant produce about 30% misshapen "crooknecks". I always suspected herbicide drift. They were the best tasting tomatoes that I EVER tried. And, sadly, never to be replicated, I must assume.

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Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:10 am

@Tormato Do crookneck Sungolds look almost pear shaped, with a yellow color??
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Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:55 am

Mark_Thompson wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:10 am @Tormato Do crookneck Sungolds look almost pear shaped, with a yellow color??
Bingo on the shape, a crookneck pear shape.

On my plant, the sepals were fused together, and eventually the forming tomato broke free with most of the sepals still fused together in a cup shape. Opposite that cup, was where the fruit bent off to the side, the only place that it could grow.

I didn't really notice a difference in color, although they were sometimes picked earlier than regular SunGolds. So that would produce more of a yellow than gold color. The odd shape, and the taste of those odd shaped ones, was the only thing on my mind. Imagine a SunGold that tastes two, or more, times sweeter than a normal one, and still having that fruity zing.

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Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:45 pm

I was going to say, those are very weirdly shaped Juliets. But, they do have that gene (or whatever), that makes them pretty much fall off the vine when ripe. Barry's Crazy Cherry has it too. Makes picking lots of little tomatoes easier, but possibly more likely to fall when green? I don't know.
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