I have only one gooseneck gourd plant out of 50 seeds planted. Thankfully, it is happily prolific. I counted 6 fruits on this lone plant, so will have quite a bit of seed and maybe a few birdhouses to make once they dry over the winter.
This is fruits from Summertime Gold Rugose. I planted my best 4 plants of this type in the middle of about 20 Czech Bush Rugose hoping to get a plant in type sturdier and stockier than both of them. We will see. It is a nicely flavored yellow tomato, though compared to Rumi Banjan it seems bland. Though it split, there were no rotting issues and they scarred over instead of getting flies in them.
The three photos above show the range of colors the Rumi Banjan tomatoes ripen to. I have found it to be completely dependent on the temperatures that the fruits ripen at. The hotter the days directly before ripening, the darker orange they are. The cooler the days are, the brighter the yellow. Temps are cooling off a bit, with highs in the 70s daytime, and mid 50s night time. Fruits ripening this week are bright yellow to slight orange. The ones that ripened when the days were in the 90s are more like the ones to the bottom of the photo just above here. End of this week the forecast is calling for higher temps, so perhaps in two weeks they will darken again.
The Tug Hill paprika are starting to show some red. Happy that the plants made it and look forward to them.
This is an F2 apparently. Last year I put a plant from Terhune seed that showed regular leaves as opposed to potato leaf variety. The resulting tomatoes were perfectly round, smaller tomatoes that tasted just like Terhune. This year I had about a dozen plants from seeds of that previous plant which led me to find that it was an F1 apparently. The F2 are all smaller types, and a few dead ringers for Joe Lauerer, giving me the impression that I now know who the father of this bastard line is. <grin> They all taste great, and all a bit different. I will save seeds from the best plants and who knows? I might get a new stable variety out of them worth keeping.
These are Punta Banda. One plant of them has all doubled ovary fruit (the ones to the right) while the rest of the plants are single. Taste is the same, though the doubles seem more prone to cracking. I saved some seeds separate as the general yield of the larger fruited one is 2-3X higher.
My daughter Cliare’s cat Boy has taken an affinity to sleeping in the pot containing Lemon Thyme. Well, guess that is better than smelling just like cat fur.
This is an off-type tomato. I had one Potato Leaf plant in a tray of Super Canabec which are regular leaf plants. I didn’t know what to do with it, and finally just dumped the seedling into a pot that had contained a large Lemon Drop pepper last year. No new soil, just watered and got a decent plant out of it which appears determinate (though could be stunted by the pot and soil), thin skinned, very meaty, and tastes wonderful. Saving seeds from this to see if Glenn Drowns had an errant seed get into the pack, or if it is an F1 chance cross they had.
This is Grunt’s Dark Autumn Delight popcorn. I picked twice, and then the squirrels wiped out the remaining few hundred ears while I was laid up here at home. Not happy about that, but I did get about 20 ears that are the darker colors, dried down early, no lodging, and larger ears. Will be plenty of good seed for next year, and a fair amount of kernels for popping. The selection from last year nearly completely eliminated the yellows, and the strawberry type ears.
