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Post by Tom Wagner on Sept 6, 2012 22:58:57 GMT -8
 Still the best to ripen here in this climate |
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Post by jayb on Sept 6, 2012 23:48:58 GMT -8
I grew 6 or so of these this season in pots, they have done really well in a cold wet season. Lots of beautifully red shiny fruit, keep well too. I'm going to start them earlier next year, I think they will do well here.
I noticed only a few seeds being produced and quite a few toms wtih none at all, due to the cool weather?
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Post by Tom Wagner on Sept 7, 2012 10:57:42 GMT -8
Jayb, The lack of seed is due mostly to the experimental numbered line from a processing background in part of the pedigree. The thick walls and very seed was inherited from that line...that plus the concentrated set...compact vine and firmness. This version of BETIMES MACBETH was selected for cool weather adaptation from the male line...and a degree of frost resistance. The flavor is not quite to my standards but getting good flavor during cool weather is a tough grind, and this clone seems to deliver an acceptable range of fruit qualities. Below is a shot of last year's production for me. It shows a fruit cut open with few seed inside.  plus.google.com/photos/109071489472255043500/albums/5694385957879826529/5785508515303337602 |
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Post by thefuture on Sept 7, 2012 12:46:19 GMT -8
Seeding this in sept.
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Post by jayb on Sept 7, 2012 13:07:22 GMT -8
Thanks Tom for your insight, Bedtimes Macbeth is a real trier, I like it  |
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Post by jayb on Sept 7, 2012 23:35:55 GMT -8
Some of my crop of Bedtimes Macbeth.  1-023 by jayb 35, on Flickr |
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Post by Tom Wagner on Sept 7, 2012 23:37:48 GMT -8
Great to see that the fruits are fairly thick walled.
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Post by cegeddin on Oct 26, 2013 17:22:08 GMT -8
Howdy,
I'm hoping to get some seeds of this variety for the 2014 growing season. I had some this year, but good fortune for house selling equated bad fortune for a couple tomato plants I had. This particular seed line I had few starts for, so it didn't make it. I didn't see this listed at either New World or Tom Wagner Seeds...is there a chance it will make it up on one of those sites, or there is a similar behaving seed line that might be recommended.
Thanks much, I am having a blast with the Tom Wagner tomatoes! Have started learning about TPS, and next year plan on growing all my potatoes from seed.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Oct 26, 2013 19:45:58 GMT -8
BETIMES MACBETH will be up somehere fairly soon. I have F-9 seed of it this season. I used it in crosses and grew out segregating crosses that are downright phenomenal!
I hope to list some F-1 hybrid seed of it.......either this coming spring or 2015. I have big plans for it for the future.
I have plans in the works with TPS (true potato seed)which I won't disclose right now but when I get results....oh, yeah!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 19:20:18 GMT -8
I'm up for some new Betimes Macbeth seed. I did not save any seed until this year and I cannot find it. And I am out of the original batch of seed that you offered Tom.
What "F" generation was this when you offered it?
Edited to add that I got 2 of 3 seeds from the original batch to sprout. They were very small.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Oct 30, 2013 21:11:44 GMT -8
I may have offered F-6 seed back in 2011 and now I have F-9. So rapidly I am putting it into other strains, that I may just offer it as a super early paste tomato for folks who want to cook with it I may use it even more this winter in crosses...dunno yet.
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Post by DarJones on May 31, 2014 18:00:11 GMT -8
Tom, Betimes Macbeth is showing extreme susceptibility to septoria in my garden. It loaded up early with fruit, is very compact, but almost all leaves are moderately to heavily infected. It might be a good idea to cross with something to improve the disease tolerance.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jun 1, 2014 21:13:42 GMT -8
Betimes Macbeth has been crosses many dozens of times with other material. Rob, my webmaster, has a nice hybrid with Kanaan growing on his front porch. The grafted Betimes Macbeth are selling at $16.99 at the local nurseries and I recommended it during my presentation yesterday. No one mentioned septoria yesterday as a problem directly. I will look at the plants more closely this season to see what difference it makes by itself and in my introgression work.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2014 15:05:39 GMT -8
I had problems with Septoria Leaf Spot also on Betimes Macbeth [in Southwest Michigan], but it did not seem to affect production... only the foliage. Of course I planted in the ground and not in pots. Has anybody made any pasta sauce with this variety yet? Please chime in Italians and Sicilians, Oh keepers of the secret sauce recipes.   |
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jun 25, 2014 21:23:58 GMT -8
I hope to learn if grafting alleviates any septoria problem or not on Betimes Macbeth.
The pasta sauce I made with Betimes Macbeth was super a number of years ago. I don't have any secret recipes. If someone does, it may help Betimes Macbeth find a niche.
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