Seattle's Blue Woolly Mammoth

[bonechickchris]

Ok, I figured out how to post pics! THank you all for the help!

Here are pics of my SBWM. I was really trying to get the pictures to show the "fuzz". This one plant is really fuzzy so that is why I wanted to show some pics of it to see what you all think. Atleast the first pic is close to what it actually looks like. It is hard to see how fuzzy it really in a picture.

I am just getting ready to plant in in a earthbox. I do not want to take a chance with it in the regular garden.

Christy

[Tom Wagner]

very nice take of the woolly blue trait.

I have been 'fuzzy headed' about this kind of trait for most of my life...glad to help others get fuzzy minded too!

[cortona]

woow! very very good, i've to provide myself with some seeds of this mammmouth for the net growing season, it looks so good!
thanks Tom for your creations!

[bonechickchris]

Good to know from others that the plant is growing in a good way! I will post as it grows and fruits. Of course, I will save seeds.
Thanks guys! Christy

[Tom Wagner]

The woolly hairs on the first photo reminds me of my beard...going pretty much gray...especially on my chin. With the weather around here down in the forties again tonite I probably look pretty blue too. Had to turn on the heater several times during the day to keep from freezing in the condo. Good thing the heater is by the computer....I can turn in on for a few minutes to minimize my blue color on my face. Cold rain off and on ....couldn't plant any tomatoes and my Blue tomatoes are turning very blue from the cold on the steps....just a waitin' for a day in the 70's..first time in 8 months!

[thefuture]

Planted 9 on May 17. 3 seedlings have come up so far and very hairy from the start....

[indyartist]

Here is my most woolly tonight, I have 12 plants but only one most woolly and one second most woolly. Here is my most woolly with it's first blossom.


and yes Tom of course you can use this picture ( I can create one without my signature on it).

[Tom Wagner]

Indy,

That looks like real art to me. I have some excellent looks alike with my Tigerpillar tomato. Maybe I will get my transplants to grow out of their transplant shock and take pictures too.

I hope the tomato industry takes a good look at your photos.

[bonechickchris]

I was going to post follow up pics here too, of my original Woolly pics from this thread, but it still has not fruited. I have been getting a lot of flowers, but for some reason, they are not setting fruit. Anyone experiencing the same thing with this plant? Just curious.
Christy

[indyartist]

I have lots of fruit set on my SBWM. These photos aren't perfect but they will show at least something until I can take better shots. Here is the general idea, I have twelve SBWM plants, I have one true woolly, one mostly woolly and ten of varying degrees of slightly wooly to not at all woolly. I have woolly , I have blue but not on the same plant. My woolliest plants appear to have non-blue fruits and my best blues are non woolly
I don't appear to have the ideal SBWM but I am very interested in following many of my discoveries to the next generation even though they might have traits other than Tom's original path.
The photos are of my most woolly with green woolly fruit, a mostly non woolly plant with nicely blue striped fruit and another non woolly with striped fruit. I am calling them non woolly although they might be woollier than a normal tomato but not woolly enough to meet the moniker of SBWM.
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[bonechickchris]

Thanks for the pics indyartist!

Isn't that always the way with everything? Like how your tomatoes are? The Woolly ones are not blue, and the blue ones are not Woolly! LOL!

As you see from my first pics, my plant seems very Woolly and has shows a good amount of blue pigment in the stems. But, without fruit, I will not know. I think I will pay more attention to it now to alteast try to get it hand pollinated to help it out.

What month did you start your seedlings? Just curious as to how old your plants are to mine.
Thank you! Christy

[indyartist]

My SBWM plants were put out near our frost free date for 5b which is around mid-May. Most of my SBWM's were small at transplanting as I bought the seeds later than many of my other varieties and I had some early trouble getting germination. I'm adding a wider shot of the SBWM plant that has the nice blue stripes to show the degree of woolliness. I consider this mostly non woolly.

[Tom Wagner]

Time will tell if the combination of very woolly and very blue fruit coupled with very blue foliage will appear in the proper prototype. I am having a blast watching others struggle over growing plants and discovering things.

[thefuture]

I have 3 of these going. Early days yet...

[Tom Wagner]

This topic needed a bump. Seattle's Blue Woolly Mammoth was the the name of the seed I listed in 2011. Since this seed went all over the world and back to me....it is not surprising that I have some good selections growing from that original seed. From my friend in France...Yamali Blue....I am growing several cousin lines of this one.

Here is a photo taken today of a Yamali Blue. I used this one for pollen to cross to the original progenitors of the Indigo Rose....Abg, atv, and Aft. Hope the crosses take. It will be easy to see the hybrids since the "takes" will have partially woolly foliage and the rest of the traits will be grown out in Hawaii to see after I extract seed from them hopefully by late August..early September. The Yamali Blue vine is F-5 and the F-6 seed taken later this year will be valuable to offer this one as near stable. The original cross was made a few years ago from my Woolly Green Zebra and the OSU blue I had at the time.



Parents used in crossing today includes Pineapple Blues, Betimes Macbeth, Hipa Gold Dwarf, Pixie Gold Olympic, Dwf rin, Black Brandywine/Black Prince x Blue, and several more un-named pedigrees.