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  • From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] purple tomatoes
  • Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:21:16 -0800 (PST)

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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