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Green When Ripe Tomato ID? Seeds from 2012?

10 years ago

In the early summer of 2012 I bought a flat of mixed "heirloom" tomatoes. One of the most interesting was a green-when-ripe tomato that had great texture, flavor and character. Melon tones and fresh mellow.

I would like to learn the ID of it, if possible, and would like to know if the seeds I carefully dried and saved onto a paper towel in 2012 might be fruitful this season. Darn if I could not locate them last spring and summer.

I saved quite a few, so I am willing to offer some to anyone wishing to test them.

The tomato does not appear to be "Green Zebra." I harvested it in Oct 19 2012, but keep in mind, that I am not in an entirely full sun location just a bit south of NH. Included in that 6 pack were a couple of Black Krim and a Brandywine like tomato.
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digdirt2
10 years ago
There are over 100 green-when-ripe tomato varieties and as is often mentioned on the Growing Tomatoes forum, it is almost impossible to name a variety from a photo simply because at least 50 of that 100 look the same.

The link below provides photos of most of the 100 varieties and you can go through the photos to compare with yours to see if that helps.

But yes, if they were a heirloom variety and assuming there was no cross-pollination when you grew them then the odds at 9:1 that they will reproduce true from the seed you saved.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Tomatobase - Green When Ripe varieties
petalique
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks, Dave. Of course, that makes sense.

I will see if any of these seeds sprout, and if I get tomatoes, I'll just enjoy them for whatever they are.
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