Radishrain

- 80 days
- Up to 1lb / 17oz / medium
- High yielding
- Red
- Beefsteak/oblate shape
- Smooth and meaty
- RL
- Indeterminate
- Resists V F N
- Smoother shoulders and smaller blossoms scars than the regular Beefsteak, according to Burpee, in 2022.
- Open-pollinated

Articles:
- http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Super_Beefsteak

Notes:
- There's an F1 hybrid with the same name (which does not appear to be for sale anywhere in 2022).

Vendors in 2022:
- https://www.homedepot.com/p/Burpee-Tomato-Super-Beefsteak-Seed-66852/100390913
- https://www.burpee.com/tomato-super-beefsteak-prod001184.html
- https://www.reimerseeds.com/super-beefsteak-tomato.aspx

- 8 to 12 oz
- meaty
- 20 to 24 inch dwarf plants / mature height = 36"
- determinate
- 65 days / early
- container-friendly

Vendors in 2022:
- $6.95 (40 seeds): https://www.burpee.com/tomato-bushsteak-hybrid-prod000982.html
- https://www.homedepot.com/p/Burpee-Tomato-BushSteak-Hybrid-Seed-61134/203587832
- $8.52: https://www.amazon.com/Burpee-BushSteak-Hybrid-Beefsteak-Slicing/dp/B078GT12LH
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Apparently, doing foliar sprays with things like ascorbic acid, citric acid, and acetic acid can have significant benefits to plants (although too much can kill them). It can improve drought-tolerance, salinity-tolerance, plant growth, and fruit quality.

- https://www.proquest.com/docview/1477432609
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03650340.2015.1028379
- https://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/1145_10
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51178-w

- Amana Orange (future saved seed)
- Broy_ F3 (future saved seed)
- Brandy Boy F12 (future saved seed)
- Brazillian Beauty (Gifted/traded seed)
- Cherokee Purple (Baker Creek)
- German Lunchbox (Baker Creek)
- Market Wonder (Saved seed)
- Mila Orange Pear (Baker Creek)
- MKX_ (Future saved seed or saved seed)
- Morsel_ (Future saved seed or saved seed)
- Orange Accordian (Baker Creek)
- Orange Icicle (Baker Creek)
- Orange Peach (Baker Creek)
- Pantano Romanesco (Baker Creek)
- Pink Fang (Baker Creek)
- Rebekah Allen (Baker Creek)
- Roma VF (Future saved seed)
- Snacker_ (Future saved seed)
- Super Fantastic VFN F1 (Reimer Seeds)
- Thorburn's Terra-cotta (Baker Creek)
- Tommy Toe (Baker Creek)
- True Black Brandywine (Baker Creek)
- Valencia (Saved seed)
- Woodle Orange (Baker Creek)

If I get seeds:
- Amana Orange (Burrough's Strain)
- Beauty
- Chef's Choice Orange F1
- Marglobe Improved
- Momentado
- Super Beefsteak (VFN)

log.growspice.com

I began my growlog at the following website (see that for earlier information):
https://www.tomatojunction.com/shule-s-2022-growlog-t3310.html

Growlist:

[FYI:
- The names on my growlist with hyphens are seed names; those with underscores are plant names. If it just ends with an underscore, that's the project name. See my plant ID system.
- I planted more varieties than are mentioned in this post, but those died.]

Ground cherries x 1 (unknown variety that is not Aunt Molly's; it is one I've grown before, though, and looks the same as Aunt Molly's)

Sweet peppers x 6:
- Big Red x 1
- Canary Bell x 5

Tomatoes:
[For my 2023 tomato to-grow list, click here.]
- Amana Orange x 11
- Aunt Ginny's Purple x 2
- Big Cheef x 1
- Brandy Boy F2 x 3 (Broy_A, Broy_A0, and Broy_A1)
- Brandy Boy F11 x 4
- Brandywine Pink x 1
- Carbon x 2
- Carolina Yellow x 2
- Gold Medal x 1
- Hamson x 2
- Italian Heirloom x 1
- MKX-A x 3 (MKX_B/Cilantrovaya_A, MKX_B0, and MKX_B1)
- Morsel-A x 1 (Morsel_B)
- Nina-A x 2 (Nina_B, Nina_B0)
- Pearler-A x 4 (Pearler_B, Pearler_B0, Pearler_B1, and Pearler_B2)
- Roma VF x 3
- Snacker-B x 8 (Snacker_C, Snacker_C0, Snacker_C1, Snacker_C2, Snacker_C3, Snacker_C4, Snacker_C5, and Snacker_C6)
- Volunteers x 9 (probably Cosmic Eclipse x 1, BSX cross x 3, Galapagos Island x 4, and not sure about the PL with large cotyledons)

Watermelons x 12 to 24 (not transplanted, yet; 13 have sprouted):
- King Winter x 12
- Winter Queen x 12

Wonderberries x 13:
- Transplants x 2
- Volunteers x 11

Garden map:

Notes:
- MKX_ is the project name for my Medovaya Kaplya cross. MKX_A was the F1.
- Broy_ is my Brandy Boy F2+ project (Broy_A is an F2). I grew the F1 that I saved the seeds from.
- Nina_ is my Early Girl growout project, with Nina_A being my most prolific RL in 2017. Nina_A was probably an F3 (but possibly an F4). The F1 was a BonniePlants storebought plant grown in 2014, which had 52-day fruit (in practice) and tasted amazing. The F2 tasted amazing, too, but different.
- Wuler_ is a project that arose from an unstable B.S.X. tomato, which was possibly one or two crosses beyond the initial.
- Cilantrovaya_ (Cilantrovaya_A is MKX_B; the first fruit, at least, had a fresh cilantro aftertaste, after a while; Cilantrovaya_A has yellow round-ish fruit, the size of a large cherry tomato; there were 80 good-sized seeds in the first fruit 54 days to fruit coloring from transplant; 55 to when I ate it, but it needed to ripen probably a day to three days longer; fruity/honey-like smell/aftertaste)

Main plot (SW-ish)

Row 1
- Cilantrovaya_A F2 tomato (historically the best spot in the garden, production-wise; transplanted 20 May; PL; first tomato to set fruit, which happened on 10 Jun; 7 fruts set by 20 Jun)
- Snacker_C tomato (transplanted 20 May; PL; set a fruit by 24 Jun)
- Snacker_C0 tomato (transplanted 20 May; PL; set at least two fruits by 24 Jun)
- Snacker_C1 tomato (transplanted 20 May; PL; set fruit by 28 Jun)
- MKX_B0 F2 tomato (transplanted 20 May; RL; set fruit before 7 Jul)
- Cherokee Yellow Perfection Peach tomato (B; transplanted 20 May; from fruit #3; RL; set fruit by 28 Jun)

Row 2
- MKX_B1 F2 tomato (transplanted 20 May; RL; set fruit by 29 Jun)
- Aunt Ginny's Purple tomato (B; transplanted 20 May; PL)
- Brandywine Pink tomato (A; transplanted 21 May; PL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Carolina Yellow tomato (A; transplanted 21 May; RL; set fruit before 7 Jul)
- Empty: was v22_A or MKX_B2 F2 tomato, but I pulled it up (transplanted 20 May; RL; the original transplant died, but another tomato sprouted, this one PL, with the former being RL--whether it was from the same container or the garden soil, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's from the same container, since it's PL, and most of the tomatoes there last year were RL; if it's MKX_, then it would have a chance of being RL or PL)

Row 3
- Snacker_C2 tomato (transplanted 20 May; PL; set fruit by 29 Jun)
- Hamson tomato (A; transplanted 21 May; this is the older plant; RL; set fruit by 1 Jul)
- Big Cheef tomato (A; transplanted 21 May; PL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Empty; was v22_A0 (RL volunteer tomato; probably Cosmic Eclipse; set fruit by 28 Jun), but I pulled it up on account of the bronzed foliage that seemed to be due to disease
- Carolina Yellow tomato (A0; transplanted 21 May; RL; set fruit by 1 Jul)

Row 4
- Empty
- Empty
- Empty
- Empty
- Empty

Row 5
- v22_A1 (PL; very long cotyledons; set fruit before 7 Jul; I'm guessing this is a Snacker_ tomato)
- Empty
- Empty: was u22_A (PL; split off from Roma VF A1 and transplanted on 3 Jun)
- Italian Heirloom (A; transplanted 25 May; wispy RL; set fruit before 7 Jul)
- Empty

Row 6
- Empty
- Frog Princess tomato (A; transplanted 21 May; RL; set fruit by 23 Jun; this was the first tomato of its size or larger to set fruit; has set at least--probably several more--15 fruits by 12 Jul)
- Empty
- Snacker_C3 (was with Snacker_C2, but pulled up and put here on 2 Jun; PL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Empty

Row 7
- Wonderberry
- Broy_A F2 tomato (transplanted 21 May; PL; set fruit significantly before 7 Jul)
- Empty; was Broy_A0 F2 tomato (transplanted 21 May; PL), but I pulled it up on Jul 11 because it seemed to be succombing to a disease (probably Verticillium wilt)
- Empty
- Wonderberry

Row 8
- Wonderberry
- Broy_A1 F2 tomato (transplanted 21 May; PL; set fruits by 8 Jul)
- Empty
- Snacker_C4 (was with Snacker_C2, but pulled up and put here on 2 Jun; PL)
- Empty

Row 9
- Wonderberry
- Empty; was a wonderberry, but I pulled it up on 11 Jul as it was succombing to a disease (probably verticillium wilt)
- Wonderberry
- Empty
- Nina_B RL (transplanted 25 May)

Row 10
- Wonderberry
- Wonderberry
- Wonderberry
- Wonderberry
- Nina_B0 (split off from Nina_B and transplanted on 3 Jun; RL; set fruit by 13 Jul)
- Empty
- Empty
- Wonderberry


West plot by sidewalk corner (north to south rows; east to west columns):
Row 1:
- Roma VF (A; RL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Empty
- v22_A3 (probably Galapagos Island; RL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Empty: was v22_A4, but got herbicide on it (probably Galapagos Island; RL)

Row 2:
- Roma VF (A0; RL; set two fruits by 29 Jun)
- Empty
- Snacker_C5 (split off from Snacker_C1 and transplanted on 3 Jun; PL; set fruit by 11 Jul)

Row 3:
- Roma VF (A1; RL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Empty
- Snacker_C6 (split off from Snacker_C1 and transplanted on 3 Jun; PL; set fruit by 7 Jul)

Row 4
- Empty
- Wonderberry volunteer


SE Plot:

Row 1

- Amana Orange tomato (B1A; transplanted 24 May, in the evening; RL)
- Canary Bell pepper (A; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)
- Canary Bell pepper (A0; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)
- Canary Bell pepper (A1; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)
- Canary Bell pepper (A2; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)
- Canary Bell pepper (A3; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)
- Big Red pepper (A; transplanted 24 May, in the evening)

Row 2:
- Empty
- Wuler_C (v22_A5 PL; set fruit by 10 or 11 Jul)
- Wuler_C0 (v22_A6 PL; set fruit by 10 or 11 Jul)
- Wuler_C1 (v22_A7 PL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- v22_A8 RL (probably Galapagos Island; set fruit by 20 Jun)
- v22_A9 RL (probably Galapagos Island; set fruit by 20 Jun)
- v22_A10 RL (probably Galapagos Island; set fruit by 22 Jun)
- Empty

Row 3
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A0; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A1; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A2; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A3; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A4; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A5; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A6; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Amana Orange tomato (B1A7; transplanted 21 May, in the morning; RL; set fruit by 12 Jul)

Row 4
- Amana Orange (B1A8; transplanted 25 May; RL)

Row 5
- Aunt Ginny's Purple (B0; transplanted 25 May; PL)
- Empty
- Brandy Boy F11 tomato (B; transplanted 24 May, in the morning; PL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Carbon tomato (B; transplanted 24 May, in the morning; RL)
- Brandy Boy F11 tomato (B0; transplanted 24 May, in the morning; this is the one I seeded later; it's parent was here; PL)
- Carbon tomato (B0; transplanted 24 May, in the evening; RL; set fruit recently before 7 Jul)

Row 6
- Empty; was Gold Medal (A; transplanted 25 May; RL; it caught whatever Morsel_B had, and I pulled it up on 15 Jul)
- Empty; was Morsel_B F2 (transplanted 25 May; RL; set fruits by 22 Jun), but pulled it up on 11 Jul as it was succombing to a disease (probably Verticillium wilt, sans the chlorosis)
- Empty (was Cherokee Golden A; transplanted 25 May; pulled up on 15 Jun, since it was almost dead and it was only an inch tall or so)
- Brandy Boy F11 tomato (B1; transplanted 24 May, in the morning; PL; set fruit by 12 Jul)
- Brandy Boy F11 tomato (B2; transplanted 24 May, in the morning; PL; set fruit by 7 Jul)
- Pearler_B F3 (transplanted 25 May; RL; set fruit by 1 Jul)

Row 7
- Empty; was Ground cherry--not Aunt Molly's (B?; transplanted from a foam cup on 27 May; was Carolina Yellow, transplanted 25 May, but that Carolina Yellow died), but pulled up the ground cherry on account of foliar disease symptoms, or some such.
- Pearler_B0 F3 (transplanted 25 May; RL; set fruit by 13 Jul)

Row 8
- Empty
- Pearler_B2 (split off from Pearler_B0 and transplanted on 3 Jun; RL)
- Empty
- Hamson (A0; transplanted 25 May; RL; set fruit by 13 Jul)
- Empty
- Empty

Row 9
- Empty
- Empty
- Amana Orange (B1A9; transplanted 25 May; RL)
- Empty
- Empty

Row 10
- empty
- empty
- empty (was Malva neglecta)
- empty
- empty
- empty
- Wonderberry (transplanted from a foam cup on 27 May)
- Wonderberry (transplanted from a foam cup on 27 May)
- Pearler_B1 F3 (transplanted 25 May; RL; set fruit by 1 Jul)

Row 11
- Empty
- Empty
- Chicory
- Empty
- Empty (was Malva neglecta)
- Empty
- Empty
- Empty

Morsel_A F1 was a plant I grew in 2021. It was an F1 hybrid, with Napoli as the mother, and an unknown smaller-fruited plant as the father. The fruits were ovate in a symmetrical fashion; they were somewhat sweet, and quite good. They tasted like they'd be good tomatoes in salad (and for snacking); they were firm. They were the size of large cherry tomatoes.

I'm growing one plant from Morsel-A F2 seed, this year (Morsel_B F2). It's the most vigorous of the varieties of tomato plants seeded at its time, by a fair margin (more vigorous even than Hamson). I'm quite impressed with it.

I suspect that Morsel_B might be another F1 cross (with Galapagos Island), as it resembles Galapagos Island quite a bit in some ways (and it was growing very near it last year), and I imagine Morsel_A would have been somewhat different if it were a cross with Galapagos Island (but I could be wrong). Ambiguity like this makes me grateful for my plant breeding name system where I don't have to mention the parentage or whether it's F1, F2, or whatever, in the name: that's what descriptions like this are for!

MKX_ is a tomato  breeding project. MKX_A F1 was the first plant of the project, grown in 2017, and was a cross between Medovaya Kaplya and another tomato. The cross evidently happened in my own garden in 2016 (when I grew the true Medovaya Kaplya, and probably over a hundred other tomato varieties).

The father of the cross would seem to be a regular leaf, round, red tomato, possibly with deeply attached calyces that can't be removed without removing part of the tomato (which seems to be a recessive trait), but I don't know what variety it was.

The Snacker_ project is a child of MKX_A, however, MKX_ lives on, and not just through Snacker_. In 2022, I grew MKX-A F2 seeds, and under colder-than-usual seed-starting conditions, three plants survived (very few tomatoes of other varieties that I started at that time survived); the MKX_ plants that survived and are still alive are called MKX_B (PL), MKX_B0 (RL), and MKX_B1 (RL).

MKX_B is the first tomato to have set fruit in my garden, in 2022 (which wasn't entirely a surprise, considering I planted it in the historically best-producing spot in the garden, which also tends to get early fruit--but it's still impressive, as it's far outpacing all the others, including the probable Galapagos Island volunteers). So far, it has 7 fruits that have set on its first truss (probably with more coming), and until today (AFAIK) no other tomatoes had set fruit, yet (but plenty were blooming, and I noticed that two volunteers set fruit--probably Galapagos Island). MKX_B fruits appear to be somewhat ovate; I don't know what color they will be (red or yellow, I imagine).

MKX_B1 was very vigorous during the seed-starting process (more so than MKX_B), but it died back at one point, and is quickly catching up. MKX_B0 is the smallest of the three, but it's doing well.

MKX_B was also vigorous during the seed-starting process (not quite as vigorous as MKX_B1), and is remarkably vigorous post-transplant.

https://www.education.com/science-fair/article/exposure-time-microwaves-affect-seed/#:~:text=Seeds%20only%20microwaved%2015%20seconds,experiment%20with%20lower%20microwave%20times.

This link is to an experiment about the effects on germination of microwaving radish seeds.

I wonder if that would induce any mutations.

https://www.deseret.com/2008/3/28/20078637/hamson-tomato-should-be-state-veggie

This is an article written by someone who wants the Hamson tomato to be the Utah state vegetable. Cool.

I'm growing two Hamson plants, this year.

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/NewsArticles/Tomato_Chlorotic_Spot_Virus.html

The link above provides information and a call to report cases of Tomato Chlorotic Spot virus. It's similar to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus.