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Are These Oxhearts?

11 years ago

So, I picked up plants from a small local greenhouse with a handwritten tag in them that said "Oxheart." These are the tomatoes they produced.

They do not seem heart shaped at all to me. Are they Oxhearts or something else?

I haven't cut into them yet.

Comments (11)

  • 11 years ago

    Not oxhearts. They look good though.

  • 11 years ago

    Yeah, they do. Not overly productive but a pretty good size.

    I'm guessing some kind of beefsteak but no clue.

  • 11 years ago

    Cannot tell from your picture , as the blossom end profile is not shown.

    Ox heart is a general description.There are so many kinds of them. But basically when you cut one in half should have some kind of HEART shape.Sometimes they are also called STRAWBERRY.

    I have one looks like this


    This is from google.



  • 11 years ago

    I planted Orange Strawberry and they look very much like the two you posted, only orange in color. These don't have that same profile. They are all pretty much perfectly flat on the bottom.

  • 11 years ago

    The hearts are heart shaped and there are a ton of different varieties. Some more heart shaped than others. Another characteristic is a meaty fruit with few seeds. They are usually not flat on the bottom, but tapered.

  • 11 years ago

    Ok. So, here are a few more pics. One comparing these to my Orange Strawberry in what I hope is a better profile pic. The other is with one cut in half (it was cut after I dunked it in boiling water to remove the skin for processing but I don't think it changed anything).

  • 11 years ago

    tjipgh,

    The top tomato in the first picture is heart shaped. But there are a lot of non hearts that sometimes would produce similar fruits my Big Beef tomatoes are similar. But it ALL the fruits on the plant looked like that ( tapered blossom end) then you may call it Oxheart or strawberry. JMO

    Sey

  • 11 years ago

    hearts.

    Maybe yours are deformed, or they are not true. Maybe crossed. I see few seeds in your pic and it does look meaty. I wouldn't save any seed if I was trying to have true seeds.

  • 11 years ago

    Seysonn,
    The top pic showed an Orange Strawberry and one of the tomatoes in question. I included the Orange Strawberry just for comparison sake as I knew that it was a strawberry/heart type of tomato.


    The lower one one in the top pic was labeled "Oxheart" but I'm having my doubts. That is the same tomato from the lower pic, cut in half.

    chigardenlady,

    It is pretty meaty but it was fairly juicy also.

    Not sure.

    In either case, I don't usually save seeds anyway. But, I might consider these just for the size and such if they were a bit more productive.

  • 11 years ago

    Oxheart are juicy most of the time they are not paste type tomatoes.

  • 11 years ago

    Hmmm. Well, either way it would seem that they were not pure if they are Oxhearts as all of the fruit on all of the plants look like the ones I've shown.

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