Susannah
Hey girl! I still have a plant going from your seed. It hasn't blossomed yet, but I will certainly keep you posted. It's almost as much fun to find surprises as well as the expected, I think. How did the red guy taste? Was it similar in flavor to the Green Z you got at Farmers Market, or do you even remember the taste? lol

Hey Cindeea,

The farmer's market tomato was nice and tangy, but small, and it completely fell apart when cut (that's how all the seeds ended up on the cutting board, and then in little envelopes that I sent all over the place!)

The mystery red is larger than the green zebra parent fruit, and much firmer. It cut up nice. And it's tangy. Beyond a more tangy than sweet tomato, I couldn't really identify the taste as green zebraish.

The mystery red had a nice flavor, so I'm happy to have it producing in my yard - there's more on the vine. And heck, I'll save seeds from it again and see what I get. But it didn't fulfill the "I want a striped green tomato" need. A need I didn't know I had until I bought those green zebras. Aaah well. This is what open pollinated is.

Do let me know what yours does. This was the first plant to bloom in my yard, and it set fruit right away, so just that aspect of it pleased me. (of course, that might be because it's growing next to the golden dewdrop, which has been covered with bees since about the time the tomatoes started blooming... maybe that's the trick I should try to replicate.)

We'll see how everything survives. Or if anything survives the recent murphy's oil soap massacre. I've got new growth on several badly damaged plants, and I'm gradually cutting down plants (back to the most recent fruit) to get my gangly and murphy's oil soap decimated jungle back under control.

It's all an experiment. The one that I thought was the unnamed yellow appears to be producing cherries.... so none of this open-pollinated stuff is working out as expected. Maybe that's just a spray of big yellows? We'll see. I'm far from complaining about taste or texture at this point in my little trial runs at farming.

That said, the free dombito seeds seem to be my happiest of all! I recently looked back at the packet and it said it should be planted out in a nine-inch pot, which is what I accidentally put it in. Fancy that! Seems kind of small for a big tomato, but it's got a gorgeous tomato on it that just keeps getting bigger. In such a tiny pot! Plus it's got several littler tomatoes on it.

Of course, it escaped the murphy's oil soap massacre because it didn't have whitefly. It was far enough away from the tomato jungle that I can't say it's resistant. But it makes me happy.

And that's what this is all about, right?

Susannah

Oh No. I feel terrible. You gave me a green zebra at the last swap and it appears to be..........a GREEN ZEBRA! It def has more stripes on it than my Mr Stripey. Of course I left my camera at work but will send you pics as soon as I can shoot.
Is it too late for a tomato start? Do you want seeds? Do you want to repo the plant? lol.

Is this Green Zebra?
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That sure looks nice and stripey like a green zebra Kristi. It actually makes me feel better. I've still got some green zebra seeds left, so I'm going to start a few more and see if I can get one fruiting.

As for repo-ing the plant, the boyfriend thinks I should stop going up to your yard to dig things up. Every single leaf on the Geiger turned brown within a couple days, before we even got it in the ground. When that happened, I made him go out and dig a hole one night while I held the flashlight, telling him we couldn't possibly wait until the next weekend because Kristi's tree might be dead by then. Every so often he asks me when he will be required to dig up the dead tree I made him plant, and if that too must be done by flashlight one night after work. :) But it still has green wood up at the top, so I'm faithfully watering it every week or so and hoping it revives with the summer rains.

Kristi, that looks fantastic! Let us know how it tasts!

sus, I'll take another pic of my Green Z plant for you tomorrow...I gave it a new stake for support today.