{"product_id":"mr-stripey-50-seeds","title":"Mr. Stripey 50 seeds","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMr. Stripey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e or Mister Stripey\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a huge, novelty size, low yielding giant mid-Atlantic heirloom tomato discovered in Georgia in the 1990’s by Wayne Hilton. More golden red than yellow, or light orange transparent skin that burst with juicy caverns of succulently sweet red marble spots. Fruits require a bit more than 110 days, resemble Pineapple, Big Rainbow, and Gold Medal. Mr. Stripey has unique bulbous, out of control shapes, rarely round, but are bridge and oblong, with smooth rumple shoulders. Consider this tomato a red tomato, with orange golden stripes, rather like an inverted color pattern of the traditional bi-color yellow Germans. Can split in rain, crack because of the thin smooth skin, is fragile, and doesn’t do well stacked, or without proper cushion, but retains a very long shelf life as a late season tomato. The base is round with no deformity, very little core, and many seeds suspended in a watery gel. Mr. Stripey is more fruit in flavor than tomato, and textures akin to plum or stone fruit. Flesh is golden honey yellow with red marbling. Salads, canning, salsa, and juices are the perfect options for a culinary experience. Plants are gargantuan with low yields of large, highly attractive fruits. Cultivate this tomato as you would any other type, but lean toward bamboo and tobacco sticks to allow the tree like determinate structure to fill out and produce fruit. Managing the structure of the plant is similar to how Brandywine, and Kellogg Breakfast grow, supporting the heavy burdening fruit clusters. This plant would do well to sucker heavy, support fruit clusters, and plant multiple plantings to just reap the flush of large fruits in the lower rungs, from subsequent planting intervals. This tomato tends to be one of the later yielding tomatoes, surviving the torrential rains that proceed hot July and August summers, and produce wonderful Autumn tomatoes with setting red spectrums of the later day sun. Seeds were originally gathered by an old timey local farmer, that consistently brings these tomatoes to market no earlier than September. You could say this tomato is more refined in texture, appearance and growth habit when compared to Pineapple and Big Rainbow. The flavor and expressions are similar to Willard Wynn and Pineapple, but fruit shape and textures are expressed as Big Rainbow.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garden Farmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391923482840,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/6563\/1192\/files\/IMG_5851.jpg?v=1707698739","url":"https:\/\/2fc296.myshopify.com\/products\/mr-stripey-50-seeds","provider":"Garden Farmer ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}