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central Nc

Nice mater! Looks like a VA record??

8/10/2019 9:46:40 PM

Wixom MI.

How big is it ?

8/10/2019 9:56:23 PM

Wixom MI.

Congratulations Stephen on your 6.13 lb tomato !!!

8/10/2019 10:19:36 PM

Wixom MI.

Sorry 6.14 lbs.

8/10/2019 10:21:06 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

Nice job!

8/10/2019 11:24:24 PM

Ontario, Canada

Congrats Steve on your new PB mater.

8/11/2019 7:38:44 AM

Eastern Shore of VA

New Virginia state record !
Awesome job !

8/11/2019 11:14:34 AM

Central NY

Way to go steve!!!!....that’s a slob!!!

8/11/2019 1:21:28 PM

Grittyville, WA

Congrats!!!

8/11/2019 1:43:22 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

That’s huge, great job Steve!

8/11/2019 3:35:07 PM

Waynesboro, Virginia

Thank you everybody! I give a lot of credit for the gardening success to my wife. She has been a little worker bee in the garden this year and greatly appreciated.

8/11/2019 6:14:24 PM

stoughton WI

Congrats stephen

8/12/2019 5:28:17 PM

Gone With The Win

Congratulations

8/12/2019 6:04:23 PM

50 Acres

Congratulations, on your PB

8/12/2019 6:23:51 PM

Oak Grove, Mn

Congratulations...i had to find the diary entry. It is interesting...off from a line you have been growing for 10 years. What is the variety?

8/12/2019 7:53:11 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

Congratulations Steve, new PB & State Record!

8/12/2019 10:55:44 PM

Waynesboro, Virginia

Hey *Robert. What kind are they? Hmmmm...that's a good question. They are surely a mix of many. A 3.57 Perry
(07). Kentucky Beefsteaks from West Virginia. 5.07 Boudyo, 7.33 Hunt, 3.94 Pennington. A 3 pound offspring from Gorden Graham's world record tomato. A tomato from West Virginia that was 3 tomatoes fused together but each had their own stem. The main vine was running thru the group. The group weighed 5 pounds. All of this has been crossed with Slankards many times. There might even be a little bit of Orange Persimmon mixed in there too, (they were yellow). That is why I say this big tomato, (6.14), is "my own".

8/13/2019 12:34:32 PM

Oak Grove, Mn

I am not sure if it would be many. A few years ago there was a discussion here on how much cross-pollination happens when all sets are open. The rate of crossing, we never decided on. I have read a wide guess as to how often. In ten year...if the rate is 10%..that means that your tomato might have had other variety pollen introduced. Still a majority of the pollen would be coming from the male of the same plant. Hypothetcally, only 5% of the seeds from the cross flower are crossed. So doing multiplication...10 years of growing open in mixed environment..In one year 10% crossed by the bees..next year..one in twenty chance of picking a seed from that tomato that was crossed. If my numbers are close...there would be statistically .5 percent chance of being crossed after 10 years. I do not know the exact percentage chances. Too bad there is not cheap easy DNA testing. What are you going to call your unknown lineage beauty for variety. I would bet there are growers that would want to grow seeds from it.

8/13/2019 7:36:25 PM

Central NY

Some unknown seed from a monster grown in the hills west of the blue ridge?.....my vote is for “Bigfoot”....dibs on seeds

8/13/2019 9:55:53 PM