Thanks, I didn't know there was a variegated 'Debbie'. I couldn't think of any since the old 'Empress', but then I'm kind of out of the loop over here, doing my own thing. The only time I get to see what other hybridizers are up to is when I go to a BSI convention, which I haven't done since 2000. Someone on one of the other forums gave me this link about variegation. Basically what you said is true, PenGoff. Once a leaf is formed, the underlying cell structure is not going to change, although I've had weakly-variegated plants that didn't really show the variegation until grown under the right conditions. And there's always the possibility that the next new leaf could come out variegated. Here is a link that might be useful: Origin, Developement and Propagation of Chimeras

I wonder if thats your HI Dbl White X LAMour? (sp?) Whatever it is, I love it! Are you going to register it? Thanks for the offer on the cutting. I SO wish I could accept. I really have to curb myself here. I don't know what I am going to do with everything I already have, lol. And I have more coming..after that, thats it, I swear!!!!!! DH looked at me the other day and said "I dont know where you think you're going to put all that come winter". Problem is~I DON'T know!! That IS so beautiful tho. I tried a bunch of Abutilon seeds this year, only a couple came up, then they damped off, or just decided they didnt like me, either way, doesnt matter, they died.

tangerine horses x blue grass music berry patch x ultimate fantacy purple kaboom x puffer fish moses fire x wild irish asian fairy bluebird x venus fly trap heir to the throne x wild hair truganini x upgrade symphony of fire x puffer fish horse country x reap the whirlwind forestlake ragamuffin x blissful blackberry pie rock solid x vft moments rich in blessings x suddenly blue pear fisher x paradise tanager dress blues x abundant cascades bobby martin x suddenly blue goldilocks x heman happy halloween x wild irish hh x bbp sym of fire x fl rag nocturnal butterfly x remember lois wolfe spc starburst x heavenly pink fang hem of his garment x doyle pierce honkey tonk blues x standing on promises starmans quest x karen sue sun bear x 8 miles high and thats just the first page. i've got five others, but don't really feel like typing them all out. this was a bad year for me. too cool for many pods to set plus some personal issues. but i got lots of seeds using carolina cool down, heman, nocturnal butterfly, vft, etc. still love my ufs and teeth

As I recall, I had tomatoes ripening in late August, though I didn't sell any until I brought them to market on 9/4 (skipped last market day of August due to death in the family). It was a short season though due to late blight and also picking green tomatoes due to (false alarm) frost advisories a couple of times. I did have some ripen in the basement until mid-November, but most rotted (a lot infected with LB and others bacterial or fungal diseases that didn't show when they were green). I did manage to can quite a few, and frozen a couple gallon bags of slicers (mostly hybrids) and a gallon of cherry toms. I didn't see many tomatoes at market this summer - the guy up the road from me had Juliettes in late July or early Aug, and organic farm in Simsbury had Mountain Fresh at market starting in mid-Aug I think. The Juliettes were selling b/c they were early (relatively speaking), but the vendor who had Mountain Fresh and I weren't selling many in Sept, I don't know if people were just continuing to buy tomatoes at the grocery store, or if they'd found a local greenhouse source but nobody seemed to be excited about local field-grown tomatoes after Labor Day.