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Post by daylilydude on Mar 13, 2017 18:23:12 GMT -5
Do all of the heart shaped varieties have what's called "wispy" foliage" and if so could/would that be a way of telling when a plant is young that it will be a heart shape?
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Post by coppice on Mar 14, 2017 5:23:17 GMT -5
Whispy or lanceolate leaves, droop more than their neighbor tomato plants do. I'm not sure I could pick them out by their leaves as immature plants...
Worse the better tasting paste tomato (cows-tit, gilbertie) also have the same kind of leaves.
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Post by paulf on Mar 14, 2017 8:21:42 GMT -5
A few hearts do have what some call wispy foliage, many do not. Wes, a very good heart has lanceolate or the wispy look. Yugoslavian Heart, another good tasting heart has potato leaves. And Butter and Bull Heart, one of my favorites has regular leaves. All three look the same early, but after the true leaves begin to grow as seedlings the leaf differences begin to be evident. So to answer your question: Often wispy leaves mean perhaps a heart, but not necessarily. There are other varieties with wispy leaves that are not hearts. Coppice names some.
So far the only beefsteak I can find with the wispy look is Martha's Italian Heirloom and it looks like a double heart to me from the photo I found Several paste/plum varieties are on the list: Opalka, Speckled Roman, Jersey Devil, San Marzano and Redorta. All of those are elongated or plum shaped which to me look a lot like heart shaped tomatoes only in the paste category.
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