On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 7:46:41 AM UTC-7, Drew Lawson wrote:
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Hypatia Nachshon writes:

Anybody know if the ones with "black" in the name are really "black"?

I haven't grown your varieties. Black Plum is dark but not black.
Depending on the weather they are dark red or a bit toward purple.
The insides are a rich red.

My Black Plum just started to bloom a few days ago. The others
(Amish Paste and Opalka) have not. They look stressed, but are
growing. The weather was pretty hot when I first put them out.
I suspect that the roots have not expanded as much as I'd like.

We're looking at a week of thunder storms, which should be good.

Looking at some notes from earlier years, the Black Plum shoudl be
getting ripe just about the time we leave town for a week.

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Disappointed in performance of the 4 varieties described above. I tried so hard to get "acid-y" varieties from local nursery after Canadian debacle.

One or two fruits; vines not flourishing despite sun, water & fertiliZer.
Santa Monica is not prime tomato country, but this is really a bummer.

At least French string beans roaring along.

HB

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