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[Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>]

Donna,

The purple tomatoes are indeed something new and
novel.  They are the first to actually produce a
purple pigment.  None of the muddy green and reddish
purples.  The color on these really does look
different from other things produced thus far.

Michael

--- Donna &/or Kieran <holycow@cookeville.com> wrote:

> I wonder if the people at Oregon State have really
> invented something different, or if they are unaware
> that there are already plenty of "purple" tomatoes
> being grown.  Typically they are a mixture of red
> and green pigments, but some are really quite dark. 
> 
>    
>      I did a sort of statistical analysis of
> comments on the "purple" and "black" tomatoes in SSE
> listings, and what I noted is that the people giving
> the rave reviews are all up north.  I suspect that
> the heat generated in the fruit by the sun increases
> ripening so they taste more like our ordinary
> tomatoes do in the hot southern summers.  Purple
> tomatoes sunscald in the south, which is probably
> one reason they don't seem all that popular down
> here.    Donna  >
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Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com


 
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