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I was growing Prue, this year. It was leaning over for a long time, and eventually I could tell it had Pythium. So, I pulled it up on the day I took this picture (27 May 2020). Most of the bottom of the plant under the ground had rotted, but it was growing a small new root when I pulled it up. Those are wonderberry volunteers volunteers all around it in the picture.

I transplanted a Marzano Fire tomato seedling in its stead, yesterday.



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Here's my Pink Ping Pong tomato plant that I'm growing, this year. This picture was taken on 27 May 2020.



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This thread refers to the Pink Cheeks tomato as sold at Double Helix Farms. Pink Cheeks is possibly a translated name for the Rozovyye Shchechki tomato, which is also known as Pink Cheeks (however, the pictured fruits look a little redder than mine in 2016, which were the same color as German Pink and Chapman; they weren't by any means as dark and raspberry-ish as Malinovoe Chudo, which I also grew in 2016, and I believe they did have yellow shoulders at times).

I grew the Pink Cheeks tomato in 2016, both in the ground and in a container. The plant in the ground was one of my favorite tomatoes, that year. It tasted just like Chapman (a great taste for tuna sandwiches), but it had a softer texture, and much smaller (but still large) fruits. It was juicier than Chapman. The plant had a low, crawling bush-type habit. It produced well.

If I remember correctly, Pink Cheeks was remarkable in that the fruits ripened quickly after they started setting.

I grew it again in 2017, but it didn't have enough sun, and it was crowded. It didn't produce that year.

I'm growing two plants this year. One from seeds I saved from the 2016 plant grown in a container, and another from the original seed packet (from doublehelixfarms.com).

Note that I would have grown seeds from the one grown in the ground instead of the one in the container, but I froze those seeds in the fruits experimentally, and from growouts of other such frozen fruits I've tried, they're probably not viable anymore.

Here are the plants I'm growing, this year. These pictures were taken on 27 May 2020.

Plant from seeds from doublehelixfarms.com:


Plant from my saved seeds:


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Here's the Pierce's Pride tomato plant that I'm growing, this year. This picture was taken on 27 May 2020.



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This is one of the best-tasting tomatoes I've ever had, and probably the most complex in flavor. It's amazing, but not sweet. It's a small tomato, or a large cherry. It's ruffled like a stuffing tomato, but my fruits weren't hollow (although I understand the variety is known to be kind of hollow at least sometimes).

I grew this in 2016, in a container.

I'm growing two plants, this year. One, from seeds I saved in 2016, and another from the original packet. Here they are! These pictures were taken on 27 May 2020.

From seeds from doublehelixfarms.com:


From my saved seeds:


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If you are a serious gardener who knows onions, you might contact Paquebot of TomatoJunction about Amish Yellow Bottle onions, and help prevent them from becoming extinct. (Edit: You might wait until Paquebot gets more seeds. They're all spoken for as of 31 May 2020.)

It said to be an excellent cooking-type onion.

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Alexandria is a pretty cool alpine strawberry. It's the easiest one to grow from seed that I've tried, and germinates abindantly. The flavor is good. Critters probably eat it more than Yellow Wonder.

I have several Alexandria strawberry plants in the garden—some out the front by the flowers, and some at the east side of the house.

Vendors:
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• The strawberry Store (Read the description here.)

Threads:
• https://www.growspice.com/Alpine-strawberries-as-air-freshener-td2940.html

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On Wednesday, I believe it was, I harvested a Reine des Vallees alpine strawberry, and ate it. It was very good and had a lot of flavor; it wasn't as bitter as Yellow Wonder was the day before or so. The strawberry was decently wide for an alpine strawberry.

This is supposed to be one of the best varieties of alpine strawberry.

I plan to split up my plant into individual plants this fall, and to grow new plants from seeds from one or more fruits.

Here's my Old Brooks tomato, so far, this year. I thinned the extra plants out, today.



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I'm growing a plant from a fruit with a very large blossom scar, from the near-multi-flora Brandy Boy cross F2 plant. So, it's F3, this year. Here's a picture I took earlier today:



The plant last year was quite desirable, and pretty much like the Brandy Boy F1 tomato that I grew the same year.

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See this related post: https://www.growspice.com/Brandy-Boy-cross-F2-tomatoes-2019-td473.html