Help identifying tomato
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BurgundySnail
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Help identifying tomato
Hi everyone!
I have this mystery tomato from a package of cream sausage.
The plant is indeterminate, regular leaf. What's unique about this is that it's a cherry, but it catfaces. Kind of oblate fruit, ribbed. Red-orange, thin skin, very juicy. 1-2 oz, 1-2 inches, large cherry. Bigger than honey drop, the size of a tigerella. Anyone have seen something like that?
I have this mystery tomato from a package of cream sausage.
The plant is indeterminate, regular leaf. What's unique about this is that it's a cherry, but it catfaces. Kind of oblate fruit, ribbed. Red-orange, thin skin, very juicy. 1-2 oz, 1-2 inches, large cherry. Bigger than honey drop, the size of a tigerella. Anyone have seen something like that?
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bower
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Re: Help identifying tomato
@BurgundySnail you might try saving seed to grow it out, and see if it is some cross with the cream sausage. If it's an F1 cross, your saved seeds F2 would be all shapes and likely some different colors too.
Catfacing is mainly environmental - when conditions cause uneven pollination especially delayed or absent pollination in some locules of a multi-locule fruit.
Anyway there's no way to tell whether it's a stray seed or an F1, unless you save seed and grow it.
Red is the most dominant color, so that is consistent with an F1. Multi locules in a small fruit suggests a beef type may have crossed with a fruit with fewer locules, such as perhaps Cream Sausage?
Catfacing is mainly environmental - when conditions cause uneven pollination especially delayed or absent pollination in some locules of a multi-locule fruit.
Anyway there's no way to tell whether it's a stray seed or an F1, unless you save seed and grow it.
Red is the most dominant color, so that is consistent with an F1. Multi locules in a small fruit suggests a beef type may have crossed with a fruit with fewer locules, such as perhaps Cream Sausage?
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Shule
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Re: Help identifying tomato
The only catfacing cherries I know about are maybe Menehune and Voyage (AKA Brain), but I don't remember if they had catfacing or just scarring. I don't think what you have is either of those. Voyage isn't supposed to be a cherry, though (but mine were small).
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Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet