SNFLA

[Yak54]

This season is my first time growing this variety and I have a few observations. I have 2 plants. One "in the ground" and one in a grow bag along with 6 other varieties. The one in the grow bag is up to 6-1/2 ft. tall as of 7-20-23. Also it is showing the least signs of any foliage disease and I'm very happy about that. All in all it's a pretty healthy looking plant. Only downside so far is it only has about 13 set fruit growing on it so far although there are quite a few flowers higher up on it. So I would expect to get more fruit set in the next few weeks. I'm probably about 2-3 weeks away from ripe fruit as of 7-20-23. As TORMATO has described this plant is always the tallest in his garden and I expect mine to go to 8 ft. or more by the end of August. So more will be revealed in the coming weeks and I'll update for anyone interested in this variety.

[Yak54]

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[Yak54]

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[Yak54]

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[Yak54]

As of Jul. 30th it is a full 7 ft.

[JRinPA]

need a translation for snfla

[MissS]

need a translation for snfla

Seek No Further Love Apple

[JRinPA]

Oh that's right... I have a pack of that from tormato. Thank you.

[Yak54]

Yes Tormato is THE GUY !

[Yak54]

Here are some pics showing the very large and strong main stem

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[Yak54]

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[Yak54]

I have 7 varieties growing and 6 of them have disease of one kind or other...EXCEPT SNFLA which is disease free. Amazing !

[Yak54]

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OK so here is my first SNFLA starting to ripen. It is the lowest fruit on the bottom of the plant.

[Yak54]

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So it's going to rain for the next couple of days so I picked the first SNFLA today so it doesn't crack with the rain coming. I probably won't taste it for another 3-4 days.

[Yak54]

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Had to lop off a couple of the top branches recently.

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[Yak54]

My season is about over and there are 3-4 ripe or almost ripe fruit on this plant that I will pick in the next 4-5 days. That will make 26 fruit from this plant for the season not including the 7-8 fruit with BER that were tossed out. It's interesting to note that out of the 7 varieties grown this season SNFLA is the only one that had BER issues. My thoughts on this variety are that I probably won't grow it again because the taste was nothing special. The fruit were rather firm with a tendency toward a very slight sweetness. The fruit texture was a little different in that they were not very juicy. My largest fruit weighed slightly more than 16 oz. I'm glad to be able to trial this variety and I thank our friend Tormato for the seeds he sent.