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It blooms blue in the morning. The flowers turn white within a few hours. The flowers are not usually visible in the afternoon/evening or so.

A large number of my Moravsky Div tomatoes have BER. Kind of disappointed. I should probably amend the soil for next year.

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Here's a picture of a Valley Girl F1 tomato that had BER. The taste was mild, but not bad.


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This tasted phenomenal. The initial taste was like a good cantaloupe. Then like a second later, a whole new taste shockingly burst into my mouth powerfully! It's hard to describe, but it was very unique. It was sweet and good. It was savory, too. Definitely a melon I'd recommend. Fairly early, too. I saved the seeds. Three other people liked it quite a bit, too. The texture was meaty. Not too soft. Not too firm. It went from a green color to white to whitish yellow. It smelled good when ripe, before cutting the fruit. I believe the flesh was orange: possibly a light orange, but it was ripe. The seeds were small and a lighter color (not orange).

Here are pictures of the fruit that I ate:
Earlier in the season:

Here's the second fruit of the Noir de Carmes volunteer that I harvested. The first was bigger. I harvested two tiny ones, today.

The pictured fruit was very good. The first one tasted a lot like standard cantaloupe, but over-ripe. The tiny ones were not very sweet.

Here's a Nodak Early tomato (it might be a cross as the plant was much larger than last year's, and larger than another plant this year). The fruits are much smaller than last year.





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Here are pictures of some Rio Grande tomatoes I harvested on 3 Aug 2019. They were remarkably red (redder than they appear in the pictures). Taste was okay, about like Sausage this time of year. Hopefully the taste improves. I saved seeds from each of these individually.







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Here are some pictures of some Early Girl F1 tomato fruits from a plant purchased at either Walmart or The Home Depot, this spring.



I zapped and saved the seeds, and put the fruit in the refrigerator. I used two zappers at once, the whole time. My Z4EX, and I think zapper #6 (30khz).

I think the plant has a very mild case of alternaria (that came with it from the store). It's a good plant, though. I know the zappers seem to have been able to take care of that disease in seeds in the past.

It's awesome to finally have replenished my supply of Early Girl F2 seeds.

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I harvested some ripe tomatoes from the F2 Brandy Boy crosses, today. The one from plant B (which is potato leaf) was large and heavily catfaced with some zippering. The one from plant D (which is regular leaf) had a mild case of blossom end rot.

I ate the fruit from plant D without saving the seeds. It tasted quite good and different from its parent. I really liked it. I might describe the flavor as a beefy tomato flavor.

The fruit from plant B was difficult to seed. The stem was firmly attached to the plant, but the stem broke more easily than its parent (so, no scissors were needed). The taste was excellent: sweet and tangy! It was a unique taste. I didn't taste any of that taste that comes from Brandywine types, but I did notice some good big tomato flavor, and it was easily a favorite, this year, so far. The skin wasn't too thick. The texture was nice. Another taster liked it a lot, too, but didn't think it was as sweet as I thought it was (the taster called it a vague sweetness, but seemed very pleased with the fruit). I liked the fruit's eating qualities more than that of the parent fruit. Anyway, I saved seeds and I plan to grow them again next year. Despite the yellowish stuff in the sliced fruit, there wasn't a tough core inside; it tasted better than it looks. The hole in the skin is probably a polination blemish rather than a bite.

I forgot to assess the colors of the fruits (the camera makes pictures look more blue and less red). I think they were both pink, though.

Here are some pictures of the fruit from plant B:








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I saved a whole bunch of wonderberry seeds, today. I got about three herbal tea bags full. They were from less than a large strainer full of berries. I saved a single bag full ago this season, but I wanted a whole lot (so I can share them comfortably).