Farenheit Blues
A bunch of years ago, I got the seed for this strain; it was an early blue, like Dancing With Smurfs. It was an unusual plant, wispy and not very vigorous. The plant itself showed quite a bit of blue under its vaguely fuzzy stems and leaves. The fruit was very blue too with a good flavor that I had not found in those early blue varieties. Lenny loved this one! So, the years roll by- no problems. Then, in 2020 I am planting and I realize the seed is...gone! One of our more popular kinds and it has vanished! I knew that Farenheit had seemed to become unavailable in the intervening years so I was worried. I ran a search and found seed (thankfully) from the same supplier I had gotten it from originally. Problem solved. It arrived, I planted it and then....it is not the same! When you grow as many varieties as I do, you can spot, even as seedling, certain kinds as being correct. This was NOT Farenheit. I glumly planted them, kicking myself for having lost the "good" ones. In the garden, these imposters were beasts. Big, wild and healthy and not blue...not the sickly cute little blue Farenheits I had always grown. Then the production started and WOW! Tons of little blue tinted fruit with a quite good flavor started coming in by the bucket fulls. There were even some plants that produced fruit with a more yellow background- quite attractive. In the mean time, one day, very late, Lenny handed me the seed from the first strain of Fahrenheit. She never 'fessed up what happened. I had, just barely, enough time to grow some out for seed for this next year. So, I now have both, strain 1 (original) and strain 2 (the beast). I like them both. Specify which you want.
