Flat 3 - Assorted tomatoes, eggplants, peppers - planted March 1. Today is day 5 - all but 6 tomatoes are up. Eggplants and peppers take longer, but a few are appearing.
Family heirlooms and the like, typically only a few seeds of each - these are destined to be grown in Caitlin and Jason’s garden.
Pale Perfect Purple (no show yet), Valdicciana, Hart’s, Vine, Green-Gold-Purple, Abraham Lincoln, German Splash, Big Barney’s, WV 23, Boho (no show yet), Giant Crimson, Limbaugh’s, Red/Yellow (no show yet), German Heirloom, Curtis Cheek, Agatha Christie dry seed found in a library book a few weeks ago, Mortgage Lifter Mullens 22-58 (no show yet), Mortgage Lifter Halladay 22-57.
Varieties planted for breeding projects - often lots of seeds to see the variations for selection. I have fuzzy, carrot leaf, yellow leaf and ferny leaf among these - time to play with dwarf breeding again.
Fuzzy Purple 21-95, Fuzzy Pink 21-96, Zoe’s Sweet X Walter’s Fancy F2 24-13 (5 cells of 15 seeds), Blazing Beauty X Walter’s Fancy 24-14, Choemato X Walter’s Fancy 24-15, Cherokee Green X Caitlin’s Lucky Stripe green fruit find 23-26, Don’s Double Delight X Cancelmo pink/gold striped heart find 23-28 (Don’s Delightful Heart), Dwarf Mocha’s Plum, Potato Leaf Yellow X Cherokee Purple F1 8069, Earl X Cherokee Green yellow/red selection from Alex 8070, Lillian’s Yellow regular leaf 8054 (seeking PL to confirm an accidental cross), Surprise 16-113 (no show yet), Carrot Like 21-60, Honor Bright 16-110.
Advanced selections from breeding projects - these are now named and will be offered by Victory eventually if all goes well
Sullivan Rose (pink from Cherokee Purple X Lillian’s Yellow) 8011, Mary’s Favorite (yellow from ChP X LYH) 24-28, Lucky Bling (variegated PL bicolor from Blue’s Bling X Little Lucky) 24-31, Rufus Rainbow (variegated RL bicolor from Blue’s Bling X Little Lucky) 8068, Polish Bling (variegated PL purple from Polish X Blues’s Bling) 22-17
Peppers and eggplants
Shishito 24-1, Jalapeno 661, Pinata 652 (no show so far), Carolina Amethyst 21-33 (no show yet), Fire Opal 21-6 (no show yet, Twilight Lightning (no show yet), Skinny Twilight, Midnight Lightning (no show yet), Mardi Gras.
Flat 4.. Main favorite heirlooms, and a selection of released dwarfs - planted March 1. Today is day 5. All but one germinated. There are a few odds and ends in this flat too.
Indeterminate heirlooms - Captain Lucky 24-32, Cherokee Purple (2 cells) 24-20, Cherokee Chocolate (2 cells) 24-21, Cherokee Green24-22, Potato Leaf yellow 24-23, Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom 19-1, Nepal 24-18, OTV Brandywine 18-13, Brandywine 24-23, Dester 23-187, Polish 24-24, Sun Gold JSS packet, Mexico Midget 24-5, Lucky Cross 24-26, Earl 24-12, Rosella Cherry 7328. I planted between 10-15 seeds of each - enough to share with some local gardeners as well as my garden.
Released Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes - Gloria’s Treat 23-60, Rufus Red Stripe (found in Hannah’s Prize - scarlet with gold stripes) 23-93, Sweet Sue 23-72, Irma’s Highland 23-73, Firebird Sweet 23-74, Eagle Smiley 7754, Elsie’s Fancy 23-75, Purple Heart 23-76, Parfait 23-80, Maralinga 23-87, Chocolate Lightning 23-92, BrandyFred 23-88, Banksia Queen 23-89, Beauty King 23-97, Golden Tipsy 23-99, Rosella Purple 23-107, Suz’s Beauty 23-114, Uluru Ochre 24-39.
Miscellaneous - Potato Clancy seeds for the heck of it - rack packet; Chinese Broccoli packet from a rack, Emerald Tower Basil, Prospera Basil (not yet up), Devotion Basil (not yet up), Zinnias Oklahome, California Giant, Tidepool, Firestarter and Zinderella - half a dozen or so seeds of each for the Zinnias. The basil seed that isn’t germinating is 4-5 years old.
Finally - of the above, it remains to be definitively determined which will be in my garden, which in my daughter’s garden, and which are for local plant sharing.