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Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:03 pm
by Josetom
https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-purple-galaxy
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Have you seen this? The thing that impressed me the most was the "Non-GMO" bit, since I have read about a similar purple flesh tomato developed by inserting snap dragon genes in his DNA..
Will you grow it?
Many people are questioning Baker creek on his Instagram, but according to the description of the variety it was from a natural mutation
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:23 pm
by maxjohnson
Well I have grown "purple" flesh strawberry before, Purple Wonder. And we already have blue skin cherry tomatoes. No I don't have a concern about it being GMO.
Also I want to say tomato color designation is a little confusing. People started calling blue tomatoes purple, where as previously purple were the brownish Russian tomato traits. If I am getting the description correctly, seems like this one should be categorized as a blue tomato.
My only question is how disease resistant and productive it will be. Except for one or two variety, blue tomato generally never amaze in the yield factor, or taste for that matter, but I know there are lots of new breeds developed now with better traits. I haven't grown the Rebel Starfighter series yet so I'm looking forward to that. It seems to me at this time generally the bicolor variety that has antho-blushing performs better than the ones that are fully antho. But no I'm not going to jump on this one just because it's purport to have more antioxidants, if a lot of people rave about the taste, yield and disease resistance then I would.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:40 pm
by AKgardener
Haha I’m not gonna say what I really want to say ohhh Lordy haha
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:43 pm
by alicej
AKgardener wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:40 pm
Haha I’m not gonna say what I really want to say ohhh Lordy haha
I really want to hear what you have to say!
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:52 pm
by Vanman
I will probably try it, if I order seeds before they run out.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:27 pm
by AKgardener
@alicej haha I will just laugh quietly to myself.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 2:27 pm
by Doffer
Cross polination by the pruple gmo tomato?
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:50 pm
by FatBeeFarm
maxjohnson wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:23 pm
Well I have grown "purple" flesh strawberry before, Purple Wonder. And we already have blue skin cherry tomatoes. No I don't have a concern about it being GMO.
Also I want to say tomato color designation is a little confusing. People started calling blue tomatoes purple, where as previously purple were the brownish Russian tomato traits. If I am getting the description correctly, seems like this one should be categorized as a blue tomato.
My only question is how disease resistant and productive it will be. Except for one or two variety, blue tomato generally never amaze in the yield factor, or taste for that matter, but I know there are lots of new breeds developed now with better traits. I haven't grown the Rebel Starfighter series yet so I'm looking forward to that. It seems to me at this time generally the bicolor variety that has antho-blushing performs better than the ones that are fully antho. But no I'm not going to jump on this one just because it's purport to have more antioxidants, if a lot of people rave about the taste, yield and disease resistance then I would.
I'd grow it, but I've not yet had a blue tomato I like either. And since I always want to grow 50 more varieties than I have space for, I'll wait to see what kind of reviews it gets on taste before I sacrifice a growing space for it. I would like to grow the Rebel Starfighter next year though. Does anyone know where you can buy the seeds? I hoping the MMMM Santa might send me some, but just in case that doesn't happen I'd love to know where to get some.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:05 pm
by maxjohnson
FatBeeFarm wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:50 pmI'd grow it, but I've not yet had a blue tomato I like either. And since I always want to grow 50 more varieties than I have space for, I'll wait to see what kind of reviews it gets on taste before I sacrifice a growing space for it. I would like to grow the Rebel Starfighter next year though. Does anyone know where you can buy the seeds? I hoping the MMMM Santa might send me some, but just in case that doesn't happen I'd love to know where to get some.
They were out of stock in all the vendors so I bought from Etsy.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:15 am
by Moth1992
Is the norfolk snapdragon tomato already out and about?
Its quite a coincidence but not sure the timing supports these guys selling a copy of the norfolk. Plus it would be a huge litigation issue.
But it is defenetly uncanny.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 12:43 am
by JosephineRose
That does not look appetizing to me.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:22 pm
by Frosti
I think I'll be very tempted to try this one, but the seeds probably won't be available outside of North America for quite some time ...
It's probably better to wait for reviews anyway.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:57 am
by Laurrie
From what I've been reading, they are going to go the MIGardener route and sell you 5 seeds of this for $5. I think I'll hold off until 2025 and just get 5 seeds for the cost of a postage stamp via a Facebook seed swap group.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:26 pm
by zeuspaul
@Laurrie Welcome to Tomato Junction
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:37 am
by Vanman
The link to Rare Seeds no longer works and a search on their site does not produce a listing for this. I wonder what is going on.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:53 pm
by maxjohnson
Vanman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:37 am
The link to Rare Seeds no longer works and a search on their site does not produce a listing for this. I wonder what is going on.
It's definitely there, the page has issue loading for some reason.
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Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:45 pm
by Vanman
The link works now.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:14 pm
by maxjohnson
Laurrie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:57 am
From what I've been reading, they are going to go the MIGardener route and sell you 5 seeds of this for $5. I think I'll hold off until 2025 and just get 5 seeds for the cost of a postage stamp via a Facebook seed swap group.
I can see why for special variety with limited amount. MIgardener overall is super generous, I have helped start garden for several people thanks to their affordable seeds. You should be more concerned with F1 tomato seeds becoming overpriced. $1 per seed is getting to be normal at this rate as F1 become more and more popular and marketed. Of course youtubers are telling people the only correct way to grow tomato plants are single stem only and close together, so you need to buy more seeds, now you are selling 10 or 15 F1 tomato seeds for $8 that's a win.
Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:20 am
by Marturo
Make mine A Brandywine please.
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Re: Purple Galaxy Tomato
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:16 am
by maxjohnson
Well I received Baker's Creek catalog and it's on the front page. I guess they're really trying entice us, this is a preemptive on the other purple gmo tomato which is smart.