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Glad to have you join us poolcue ;DI like Koralik, I found them quite early and tasty too, for me not in Sungold Sweet league, but still an enjoyable tomato.What about a French bean or a pea variety?
Possibly Moonlight bean
As that's a cross -it would be interesting to see if you get the same babies as the parent once the beans were saved....
Quote from: aj on January 27, 2011, 07:49:37As that's a cross -it would be interesting to see if you get the same babies as the parent once the beans were saved....Do you know for certain that Moonlight is a cross between runnerbean and French Bean? The advertising hype is suitably vague on the subject. I thought it was a runnerbean for which they claim improved bean setting (sets as easily as a French bean)? But haven't been able to find out for definite what this bean is.Runnerbeans can cross quite easily with other runnerbeans in the vicinity.
All I can see is various statements all saying:Unique Runner/French cross for improved pollination! They always keep their secrets if possible on things like this! I've nothing other than that! But the suppliers [Suttons said the above] all seem to be stating that it is a cross.
On the packet it doesn't say that it is an F1 so that's why I thought I would give it a go.The bean is white so when harvesting the colour should be the same.Time will tell.I will grow this in the garden which is fenced so there will hopefully be no crosses.
To my mind seed companies are not the best at labelling what should be. I've been growing Red Rum the last few years, for me it does really well as an early/late crop in the polytunnel, again some companies claim it is a self-pollinating variety. Although not labeled as an F1 T&M state on their site 'Please Note: Seed saved from this hybrid will not come true'. So Moonlight may well be open pollinated :-\
;D This morning I made 'holy' decision for not getting anymore new tomato varieties ::) I have been writing my list and trying to sort out what to grow ::)To my horror I'm getting nearer to 200 varieties now..and it's growing once I've got all list merged together :-X...but one cannot resist to try something 'new' ;DRuud's list is looking very interesting..I'm seeing some that I'm not familiar ;D...I'm loving it...saving and hording more and sharing.. ;DLuckily I'm not the only one over here.. :-X..I could name few others that are bit bonkers... :-X ;D
It would appear you are as fanatical about tomatos as I am about pumpkins and squash