When we did the tomato grafting this Spring, the results were not quite as successful as we had hoped they would be; only one of the ten grafted plants survived. See: http://plantagarden-itllgrowonyou.blogspot.com/2016/04/not-quite-as-successful-as-we-hoped.html.
The one tomato plant that did survive was supposed to be a Rose de Berne on Estamino root stock.
We were a little surprised when the surviving plant put on a huge growth spurt and began rambling all over that end of the raised bed. It produced very large yellow flowers that attracted the attention of an industrious bumble bee and of the California Towhees, but as time went on, not much in the way of tomatoes appeared.
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| Grafted Plant on the Left |
When tomatoes did begin to appear, they were small, clustered and yellow. We kept waiting for them to ripen, but they stayed yellow. When they began dropping off the vine, Cindy started picking them and determined that they were actually ripe. They tasted all right, but were just small and yellow.
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| Mystery Tomatoes |
The Rose de Berne tomato is described as a dark pink tomato weighing between 6 to 8 ounces with good, sweet flavor. The plant right next to the mystery plant is from the same lot of seeds labeled "Rose de Berne" and appears to be an actual Rose de Berne plant and is certainly producing the big round dark pink tomatoes we expect from that plant.
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| Actual Rose de Berne Tomato |
Cindy doesn't remember ever ordering any seeds for tomato plants that produce small yellow tomatoes, although it's possible that the seeds got mixed up by the grower Cindy bought the seeds from.
Two possibilities are the Galena's tomato http://www.tomatogrowers.com/GALINAS/productinfo/5882/ and the Garden Peach http://www.tomatogrowers.com/GARDEN-PEACH/productinfo/5324/.
The yellow tomatoes do have a faint bit of fuzz on them like the Garden Peach, but not what I would call "abundant clusters" of fruit.
It may just remain a mystery.
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