Are you perhaps talking about the variety called Stick? It has just the central stalk with bunches of leaves alomg the stalk, not the normal leaves we know of.

Small fruits ripen up red, but one doesn't grow this variety for the fruits, rather, as a novelty for the plant habit.

Darn thing looked like a Poodle with an attitude to me. LOL

Carolyn, where it's minus 10F and still dropping even as I type and with the two feet of snow we received on Friday and Sunday following the horrendous ice storm a week ago she thinks she's just going to go back to bed and pull the covers tight. Too much winter too soon as she sees it. Sigh.

Yeah, that's it! thanks.

Looking to grow for the novelty.
I grow a few odd ones per year just for fun.
Climbing Triple L, BIG Plant.
Garden peach, fuzzy
Micro-toms, tiny
Maxifort Most vigorous thing I have ever seen. 25' plant in PNW. Very few fruits, that didn't taste so hot.

found some Stick seeds here
http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/vegetable/tomato/tomato.html

I saw one with multiple colored fruits, or fruits that change color.
A purplish leafed one.
I sure would like some of those P20s/OSU Blue too.

Any other weird ones out there?

I saw one with multiple colored fruits, or fruits that change color.
A purplish leafed one.
I sure would like some of those P20s/OSU Blue too.

Any other weird ones out there?

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The variety that has fruits of different colors is called Lutescent, possibly it was once known as Honor Bright which was a variety offered by Livingston, and fruits change color from green to white to yellow to orange to red so that there are fruits of all colors on the plant at the same time. The foliage is a sickly yellow color. I didn't think much of the taste of the fruits, but if you want another novelty one that will do. LOL

I think seeds are at Victory Seeds.

Off hand I don't know of any purple leaved varieties.

Others?

How about Purple Smudge? I don't know if it's offered commercially but it's long been listed in the SSE YEarbooks.

And then there's always Reisetomate, also known as Voyage, which has a medium sized red fruit with fused cherry sized fruits all over the surface. It looks kind of like a cauliflower with an attitude. LOL Again, not grown for fruit taste, but rather as a novelty.

I didn't Google it to look for a commercial source, but it too has long been listed in the SSE YEearbooks. It's an heirloom variety form either Germany or Austria, I can't remember which, and was first listed in the Yearbooks by Nancy Arrowsmith when she was in Austria and head of Arche Noah. She's moved back to the US now.

For most of the novelty varieties, or what I think are novelty varieties, I grow them once for a look see, and did that in the earliest years when I got involved with OP heirlooms, but I never saved seed from them.

Carolyn

> Lutescent

Yep, thats the one, thanks.

I can't find the purple leafed one. It wasn't due to deficiency. I'll keep poking arround.

Resietomate and smudge looks fun.
Smudge should be very smudgy in this enviroment.
Next year.

Seeds for the above look readily available from multiple commercial sources.

This years 'weird ones' are Azurbayjani Watermelon
and a gaggle of microtoms, and soon, Stick.