Re: Sungold
Margaret,
You really should give Sungold a try. I find that most yellow tomatoes have
a very sweet but bland flavour. Sungold is much more orange than yellow so I
bet one parent is a red cherry and the other is a yellow. The flavour is
really quite rich.
Arzeena
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----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Sungold
> At 07:58 AM 2/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >F1 = First filial generation
> >
> >Sungold's parents = if we knew that we'd be rich!! It's not normally made
> >public what the parental lines are. Kind of defeats the purpose of having
> >hybrids and forcing people to buy new seed every year.
> >
> >Arzeena
>
> I've heard a lot about Sungold's sweetness, but haven't grown them or
eaten
> them myself. A possible candidate for a parent is Isis Candy, yellow-gold
> cherry tomatoes with red marbling. It's hard to tell when they're really
> ripe, but when you taste a ripe one, it's just great. Tomato Growers
Supply
> Co. carries this variety and says the Isis Candy plants are productive,
but
> they weren't very productive for me. Nothing like Sweet 100s or Gardeners
> Delight, for example. Margaret L
>
>
>
