Radishrain

So, on 26 Aug 2019, we had some millet with carrots and hamburger seasoned with Maggi season (as well as pepper, I think). It was really good! I loved the hamburger with Maggi seasoning. I'll have to remember that.

The millet was cooked like rice.

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I harvested, seeded and ate a fruit from my Amana Orange cross on 26 Aug 2019. It tasted awesome! It had great firm texture like Amana Oange has in the past, too. The shape is like the Amana Orange I grew in 2017, but the fruit isn't very big.

I suspect that Girl Girl's Weird Thing was the father plant. It had a lot more flavor than Girl Girl's Weird Thing has in the past for me, though, and a lot more than Amana Orange, too. Maybe that's because I grew it with black plastic this time. Maybe the cross brought out more flavor. Or, maybe the year did.

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye is another candidate for the father. Indian Zebra (perhaps the same as Indian Stripe) is another possibility.

The inside has some pink in it. The exterior is an interesting color.

I don't know why the fruits aren't larger.







other_tomato

This tomato was actually pretty tasty. It was like a much tangier version of Chapman, taste-wise, but the texture was different and more like those of my Brandy Boy crosses.

I suspect that Chapman is the father plant, as it tasted like Chapman. Taste-wise, the only other tomato with a similar taste that I grew was Pink Cheeks. It was pink again, this year (much as in 2017).

I plan to grow this again some time. I'm excited to have a tomato wuth this taste and texture. I hope it can be earlier and more prolific with a regular start (it was transplanted when it was still small, and transplanted later in the season than ideal).

This fruit had a very large blossom scar and was likely from a megabloom. These pictures are all of the same fruit.








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Here another picture of what was supposed to be Husky Red F1. This is a fruit I harvested, seeded and ate today. I suspect this is rather actually a stable matriarchal parent of Husky Red F1, seeing as the foliage is not rugose (it is regular leaf). The foliage is stiff like rugose foliage, though. It's really a nice plant. I plan to grow seeds next year and see if it's true-to-type.

The plant produces a good amount of good-sized fruit on a medium-ish plant.

This has a fairly normal tomato flavor, but in a good way. The texture is good and very meaty. It was midseason, this year.

I thought I already posted about his tomato (as I already harvested and seeded fruit a while back), but I'm not finding the post.



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I harvested the first Polish Linguisa tomato, today. It was over-ripe, but it was one of the best-tasting tomatoes this year, right up there with my two favorite Brandy Boy crosses and Marion! It smelled good before I cut it open, too. I saved the seeds for a trade. I'll have to save more for myself later.




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I'm growing three spots of three different kinds of watermelons that each share congo as their matriarchal ancestor. There are probably three plants per spot, and each plant is probably different, too.

Anyway, I ate one today. I think it crossed again with Sugar Baby Bush last year, since the seeds are small, thick, and woody. Outwardly, it doesn't resemble Sugar Baby Bush, however, as in it's not round (which seems odd if it is a cross with it).

The flesh looked like that of the best-tasting watermelons I've had, but although it was good, it didn't taste like them.

It was solid dark green.

Here's a post about my Corrales Azafrán safflower from earlier this year: http://vegetables.boards.net/thread/442/corrales-azafr-safflower

My plants are starting to wind down for the season, by the look of it. They're falling over and I think the leaves are changing colors.

I'm letting all the flowers go to seed.

I have a spot where I'm growing watermelon where I lost the tag. They're some of my largest. I'd suspect that they were Congo cross, except all of my Congo crosses are accounted for. They could be Verona, but they'd probably be ripe by now if so. They have dark green, solid-color rinds. One fruit is long and one is round. Verona is round.

I'm going to Nickname them Corner watermelons, for now, since they're growing on the southeast corner of the patch and they're doing well there.

They must be Verona. Everything else seems accounted for. However, they're different enough from Verona that I'm still going to call them Corner. They're probably a cross. Since I don't know the matriarchal ancestor, I plan to treat this generation as the starting point for it. I'll have Corner Round, and Corner Long.

This thread is about the Santo Domingo Dark Green watermelon. For information about all three Santo Domingo watermelon breeds, see this link.

I ate the smallest of the three Santo Domingo Dark Green watermelons, today. It was very sweet and was pretty good. The rind had that winter melon skin texture to it, although it looked just like a Verona watermelon on the surface. It is a winter watermelon, according to Native Seeds.

In 2018, I discovered that my Tom Watson watermelon was a cross (probably with King Winter). It tasted almost as good as Tom Watson, but managed to get bigger than both Tom Watson and King Winter had for me.

In 2019, I grew F2 seeds and got three fruits. Each fruit seems to be from a different plant, as each fruit has different traits (I probably have three plants in one spot; I normally do that).

One fruit was a decent size, but still smaller than last year's. The taste was good, but not as great as last year's. The rind looked about the same (a moderate shade of green with darker green stripes). The seeds were black as they were last year.

The other two fruits resembled miniature King Winter fruits (round and light green with darker green stripes). One had red or brown seeds (I'm not sure which) and tasted considerably different. The other had black seeds and tasted quite good, much as the parent, but different.

The one with red or brown seeds must have crossed with either Bozeman, Ancient, or Red-seeded Citron. My guess would be Ancient, except it would have a darker rind then. So, it must be Bozeman or King Winter must have been crossed without my knowledge (before cross-pollinating Tom Watson). The flesh wasn't so firm as for me to think it was Red-seeded Citron. I'm going to assume King Winter was true-to-type in 2016 (when I saved the crossed Tom Watson seeds), as that was the first year I grew King Winter. So, Bozeman must be it!