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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Indian Stripe tomato, this year, so far. I've grown Indian Zebra before, which is presumably the same thing. I thought this was going to be ISPL, but it was regular leaf, and I found out it was supposed to be the regular leaf version. That's fine. My ISPL from my other source froze, I believe; so, I'm not growing ISPL, this year. I do hope to grow it another year.

Anyway, in 2016, I overwatered Indian Zebra, in an area with full sun. It had a fairly small plant with large, watery fruit. They didn't have lots of flavor to me. This year, I'm growing them in a more shaded area (it has room to grow into a sunny location), with some shredded poplar wood in the soil. I guess we'll see what happens!

Indian Stripe tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Homestead tomato, so far, this year. I've been waiting to grow these for years. Yes, I've had the seeds for years, too. It's supposed to be quite heat-tolerant in the southeastern states, and similar to Marion. Marion is one of my favorite tomatoes; so, I hope I like Homestead.

Homestead tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Green Gables tomato, so far, this year:

Green Gables tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Garnet tomato (a cherry tomato), so far, this year:

Garnet tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
I grew this in 2018, and loved eating it. The taste isn't extremely surprising or anything, but it's a really good tomato to eat. Unfortunately, I didn't save seeds from it that year (since I was fatigued and I didn't plan to regrow it at the time, for production reasons; I'm hoping it's more prolific this year, however).

Yes, this breed is true-to-type. It's not an F1 hybrid like the Garden Leader Monster watermelon is.

Here's my plant, this year, so far. I just thinned it, today:

Garden Leader Monster tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Eva tomato, so far, this year. If you don't know the story behind it, I recommend talking to the breeder and hearing it. I don't remember it in full, since I booted myself from Tomatoville on accident, and can't read my private messages (wherein I was told the story). This is not the same as Eva Purple Ball. I believe it's a sweet, bullet-shaped tomato, in the same class as Maglia Rosa, Wild Tiger and others. The plant is wispy, so far. I thinned it, today.

Eva tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
A kind woman from Kansas on Gardenweb gave me the seeds for this, a year or two ago. Here's my Esterina F1 tomato plant, this year, so far:

Esterina F1 tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
This tomato was growing with it's root out of the soil. It was the only one of the seeds that survived. I transplanted the root deeper in the soil. Hopefully it flourishes. This picture was taken today.

Egg Yolk tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Djenna Lee's Golden Girl tomato, so far, this year. It's from seeds that were gifted to me by a Gardenweb member. I have (or at least had) seeds from Timeless-tomatoes, too (which spelled the breed name D'Jena Lees Golden Girl). I'm not sure which spelling is right (I've seen others, too). I probably would have used the other seeds, but I think I couldn't find them, and I could find these.

Djenna Lee's Golden Girl tomato plant. D'Jena Lees Golden Girl tomato plant.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here's my Deutscher Fleiss tomato, so far, this year:

Deutscher Fleiss tomato plant.

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