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• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160518141416.htm
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140402212531.htm

My tomatoes this year with unique leaves appear to be these:

• Silvery Fir Tree: the foliage is feathery.
• Purple Calabash (the leaves are flatter and a little differently shaped than other regular leaf tomatoes). I wonder if it's from an interspecies hybrid.
• Taiga: It's a potato-leaf plant with leaves that are really floppy-looking. Maybe they're wispy, but I haven't seen a definitively wispy PL tomato plant to compare. At first I thought it was stressed, but it kept growing new leaves this way.

In past years, I noticed differences with Galapagos Island and Menehune, too.

I took these pictures today:

Silvery Fir Tree:


Purple Calabash:


Taiga:


Here's a normal regular leaf tomato for comparison (it's Marion, from fruit #1):


Here's a normal potato leaf tomato for comparison (it's B.S.X.):


Here's my wispiest regular leaf tomato, this year, for comparison (however, it's not as wispy as some other varieties that I've grown before); it's Sheboygan from an oxheart-shaped fruit:


Note that there are other possible leaf shapes, such as rugose an pompom.

• https://truthabouttalc.com/about-talcum-powder/
• https://draxe.com/health/talcum-powder/

According to the links above, talcum powder (which is in baby powder and a host of other products) can contain asbestos and can cause (or increase the risk of obtaining) ovarian cancer when used for feminine hygiene.

Do a web search for talcum powder (without mentioning anything like asbestos or cancer) and see the results!

The takeaway is, don't use products containing talcum powder for feminine hygiene, to prevent diaper rash on babies, etc. Use alternatives instead. In short, don't risk getting asbestos in your system.

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Here's a young two-striped grasshopper on a Chris Ukrainian tomato plant. This picture was taken today.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200108131628.htm

The above article talks about many novel insect viruses that have recently been discovered, and how they're all capable of causing disease in humans.

The discovery should help to identify more previously unidentified viral infections in humans.

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Here's my Yellow Plum tomato plant, so far, this year. This picture was taken on 27 May 2020.

I'm curious what it's like compared to the two versions of Yellow Pear I've tasted, and how prolific it is compared to those.



Offsite articles:
• Tatiana's TOMATObase
• Dave's Garden

Offsite forum search results:
(Note that Yellow Plum as mentioned in this thread is an actual breed of heirloom tomato, and some of these results are not about the breed, but rather about random plum-shaped yellow tomatoes.)
• Google: Dave's Garden
• Google: Gardenweb
• Google: proboards.com
• Google: Tomatoville

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Here's my Trucker's Favorite tomato plant, this year. I've had high hopes for this tomato. This picture was taken on 27 May 2020.



Offsite articles:
• Tatiana's TOMATObase
• Dave's Garden

Offsite forum search results:
• Google: Tomatoville

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The the following page for the F2: https://www.growspice.com/Brandy-Boy-cross-F2-tomatoes-2019-tp473.html

Here are pictures of some (not all) of my Tart Brandy Boy cross F3 tomato plants, this year. These pictures were taken on 27 May 2020. The plants are not large, so far.









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

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Here's my Taiga tomato plant, this year. This picture was taken on 27 May 2020.



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Here are my SunChocola F2 tomato plants, on 27 May 2020. I've since thinned it to two plants. I received the seeds from Gardenboy of TomatoJunction, in 2020. These seeds got a later start than most of the other tomatoes, this year. There are wonderberry seedlings with them (the SunChocola ones are closer to the center, and more mature than the wonderberries).



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