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Black from Tula, I meant.

Just picked this one tonight -- riper and gives you an idea of just how yellow these things turn.

yes , I intend on saving seeds, but I'd like to identify what kind it is.

It sure looks like a paste tomato and probably is, but I googled it, checked Ventmarin in France which covers most European OP varieties, checked a couple of SSE YEarbooks and also checked Tania's website as well.

And nothing.

When one enters Bosco at Google, as in Bosco tomato, there's nothing, but the word Bosco is used in descriptions of restaurants named Bosco, and the like all associated with something Italian.

There aren't too many German varieties I know of that are paste tomatoes of that shape and that slender. Howard German is one that I remember, and that's about it and that one is fatter than what you show.

Perhaps there's a reason why this person gave it an Italian name. Do you think you could find him again and ask more about what he called Bosco?

And perhaps wait to share seeds with others until you know what it might be called, as in already known by another name? I hate to see varieties renamed if they already have a name and Bosco could also be a local variety that he got seeds from somewhere, who knows. ( wink)

And I do hate to say it but it has been known that some4 vendors selling plants or fruits at Farmer's markets and the like do change the names of varieties to indicate they have something exclusive. I'm not saying he did it, I'm just saying that it's known to occur.

Carolyn

This forum in particular has some really nasty expanding popups that expand at the worst possible time. VERY aggravating.

I'm not ever buying Lancome products.

Thanks. I'll try giving the plant a shake. So all tomatoes are self-pollinating? So then why did someone else tell me bees are needed?

Also, I happen to love yellow pear tomatoes. I'm sure there are other things other people choose to grow that I myself 'do not care for'. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

One thing you'll find is that many growers have different ideas, many which are not based on science, but on experience or ideology or wives tales of which there are many. Much of growing is not an exact science anyway, as there are often many factors involved.

You'll have to view information from multiple sources and come to your own conclusions. When I find conflicting information and I can't make a clear choice, I'll often conduct my own experiments to see what works in my situation with my garden plot. Reading these forums, you will find though, that certain posters post more correct information then others, and you'll learn which ones whose advice you can trust.

If you want to do that you could root each branch on the leggy plants and get even more to sell :)

Oh Boy! MORE tomatoes. I'm kinda tired of tending them at this point. I'm sure I'll feel better about it all when I finally get some results to taste.

I'll move the water rooting stems to potting soil. Thanks again for the input.

How do you treat edema on tomato plant?

It wouldnt be something you "treat". Rather it's something to prevent. Once you do see it just best to help the plant grow well. It would likely grow out of it if the environmental cause has ended.

I suppose if one helped the excess soil moisture drain/dry out more (make holes in soil) or stay cooler (mulch the soil) that might help.

Hi,

I'm a first time tomato grower but that happened to both my Mortgage Lifter and Big Beef after 2 thunderstorms. I just taped it up with Saran wrap about 1.5 inches wide much like you would a wound with a bandage and they survived just fine. I never removed the tape and they now each have about 25 fruits on them. Just make sure they're supported with a stake or something to keep them upright.
Goodluck.

I use masking tape for those accidents. I just leave it on until it weathers and falls off. The break is usually healed by then.

I had it fully ripe and it is good, but it is so much better when it is only half ripe. That is how I will eat them from now on, but it's true that we don't know what we will like until we grow them and try them out! So glad I did not give up on this one because it does take forever to ripen. I had my first cherry tomato ripe in the beginning of July (maybe even the end of June) but nothing on the Uncle Mark Bagby until my post above.

I had it fully ripe and it is good, but it is so much better when it is only half ripe.

I'm guessing that what you thought was "fully ripe" was beyond ripe.

And the plant.

Hi I am having the same problem. From the advice I've been given, it could be a lack of phosphorous or possibly magnesium. I was told to fertilize with a 10-50-10 . If I remember the numbers correctly.
Sharon

Sounds a lot like the squirrel damage I've been having. We got an electric fence and they still occasionally find their way in.

I agree with about everyone else....rocky the nite prowler. You wantta catch him, make sure your trap works like it should, then put plenty of peanut butter in there...krunchy or creamy is up to you! I prefer creamy, Don't leave your dog out. Good luck

Yeah, I thought the top of that tomato looked black but wasn't sure with lighting, angles, etc.

MG certainly did a stroke of business getting their logo/ad to cut into the picture like that.

Interesting....on my 15" monitor the MG ad cuts into the upper left corner of the tomato basket photo which is why I thought they had something to do with the photo, but on my wife's wider monitor the MG logo is completely separate, and at least a couple of inches to the left of the photo.

"I know Linda Sapp at TGS very well and I've never known TGS to send out seeds like that so I think there must be a goof up somewhere with maybe your labels?"

Carolyn, it does happen occasionally. I've gotten a stray seed in the past from TGS. I only grow a small number of plants for DH and myself, so I know what I planted. I saved seed from my "stray" and still grow it because I like it, although I'll never know what it is, just that it is a pink slicer that came out of a packet of Persimmon seed. Just sayin' :)

I'm not saying that a stray seed couldn't appear in a pack of a known variety, sure it's happened in the packing, but in this case we've got a huge yellow and a smaller red, with apparently no plants showing the correct variety and it's just hard for me to understand how the stray seeds, one of each color could get into a pack.

Each year I do a seed offer and this past Jan I packed up 500 packs of seed to send to US folks as well as folks in other countries and when I pack seeds there are NO other varieties on the table top and I have to assume that those who still pack seeds manually use the same caution.

Fact is that now days very little seed packing is done manually by commercial seeds sites, at leastI think that's true. I know SSE has an automatic machine that does it, but I don't know about other seed sites.

One of the best stray seeds was found in a pack of the variety Pineapple by Majorie Morris of IN, and she ended up calling Orange Strawberry. She's also the person who sent me seeds for German Red Strawberry, a family heirloom, and some think the two are related in some way, but not true at all.

Carolyn