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I'm impressed with the Chipotle pepper. It's vigorous, prolific and early. I tried a partially red one today and it was extremely sweet. Even the spiciness tasted sweet. It was weird, but great.

The fruits look just like Jalapenos, but they don't taste like them. They taste more like a mildly spicy Jimmy Nardello Italian peppers with thicker and juicier walls.

Here's today's harvest of Ancho San Luis peppers. They're smaller than I thought Poblanos were supposed to be.

This has been a favorite variety, this year. The fruits are fairly round and meaty (though they can get soft when ripened well). The plant is productive and not enormous. If you want a lot of salad-sized tomatoes in a small space, this would be a good variety. Fruits began ripening fairly early. It tastes good, but it's not my personal favorite (I can see how others might favor it, though).

I got one fruit that was a lot bigger than the others. It had lots of locules. I plan to grow it next year to see if it was a sport.

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Here's my regular Mustard Bhutlah plant, today. It has two large fruits, and maybe a few that are just starting to form. The one with anthocyanin has a lot more fruit (and a larger plant, too):

Here's the regular Mustard Bhutlah's fruits:

Also see this thread: http://www.growspice.com/Honeycomb-x-Torpeda-F1-tc496.html

Some hours ago, I opened a Honeycomb F2 melon. It was very sweet (and good), except closer to the rind where it was darker green. It wasn't perfectly round, but unevenly round is the closest description. The rind was a little ripply, like Valencia Winter melon, except white and not nearly as ripply. The seed cavity was fairly small. The flesh was firmer than the F1's and firmer than Honeycomb x Torpeda F1's.

I suspect this is a cross with Ashkahabad, but I can't say at this point. If I get yellow rinds next time, that should tell me.

See my posts that start on page 5 of The Organic Gardening Community's Melon thread for more information about this specific fruit, and for pictures. Well, just in case, here are two of the pictures:

We ate two small Ancient watermelons, today. One had red seeds as usual (maybe even brighter red than last year). The other was a cross and had dark seeds. They both tasted awesome, but different.

Last year, I grew two spots with it (perhaps three plants per spot). It got bigger fruit last year. It had a good taste, but not as flavorful as the two I described above. One of the plants had white flesh, and so must have been a cross. I saved seeds from the red-fleshed one. The true fruit had a pear-type shape and a bubbly pattern on its rind.

In 2017, I also grew Ancient, but I didn't track down which fruits I harvested were Ancient.

Ancient has a tender, almost pear-tasting rind. The rind isn't sweet, particularly, though.

In 2017, I grew the White Queen tomato, got a few fruits, saved seeds, and yeah. they tasted really good! We didn't use black plastic that year; the fruits had drought conditions.

This year, I grew it from seeds I had saved. We are using black plastic, and we aren't watering much. The performance is somewhat better than in 2017, but I prefer the flavor in 2017 a lot. It's a lot less sweet, this year, and still interesting, but not as interesting of a flavor to me. The fruits have spoiled on the vine soon after ripening. I saved seeds from a quite large, split, spoiled fruit, today, as well as from a somewhat smaller one had no problems; I ate that somewhat smaller one. I might grow it again, but I'll probably grow Great White or White Tomesol again, first.

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In 2015, I grew Healy's Pride with black plastic, and got one large, netted, long, orange-fleshed fruit with great flavor.

This year, I'm growing it from seeds I saved, with black plastic and a cage to support it. It grew at least four large fruits (larger than in 2015). The first one ripened unnoticed and split. I'm saving the seeds now, but the fruit had been split open so long that it was full of fruit flies and was probably not a good idea to eat.

Chris Ukrainian in my garden has stripes, this year (like Green Zebra's stripes). I ate a ripe fruit, today, and it was very sweet (I think a lot of things are sweet around now; Early Girl F1 is, anyway).

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Here are some Thessaloniki tomatoes that I harvested, seeded and ate several hours ago.

The first and largest one tasted quite good and had some of that burned tomato taste to it that Matina had in 2017, but not so much that it was overpowering. the second fruit tasted different, but I liked it a lot.


Larger fruit:



The plant is looking quite prolific.

In 2016, it was also prolific (albeit not early), and it had softball-sized fruits, but had a somewhat different texture and a different taste. I watered it a lot then and didn't use black plastic. I saved seeds and grew them in 2017 with drought, without bkack plastic, and the plant produced small fruit, and few fruit, with potent good taste. I figured that might have been a cross as it was so different; so, I used my original seed source again, this year, and got a partially variegated plant. The variegation went away after a bit. I'm growing it in black plastic with drought. It got a late start, but it's prolific with good-sized fruits anyway.

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