Hello from the Netherlands!

[Branching Out]

Thank you! It's Rebel Starfighter Prime, very unusual pattern. Nice tasting too. These ones were grown in my greenhouse so the blue is a little more muted but I have some growing outside (not ripe yet) which are even prettier.

Interesting. I have never grown tomatoes in a greenhouse before-- is there a reason for why the colours of greenhouse grown fruit are less vibrant than those grown outdoors?

 

[phaseolista]

Interesting. I have never grown tomatoes in a greenhouse before-- is there a reason for why the colours of greenhouse grown fruit are less vibrant than those grown outdoors?

Here in the Netherlands we can be very unlucky and have really wet & cold summers where no tomato produces anything outside before it succumbs to blight, so having an unheated greenhouse is almost essential if you want to grow nice tomato varieties.

The lower color intensity only happens in tomatoes with blue/black in them! I think it has to do with less direct sunlight hitting the tomato. Red/yellow/green are the same inside or outside the greenhouse. I will see if I can take some photos tomorrow of a tomato I have growing both in the greenhouse and outside, outside it is almost completely black and inside only half black! Really interesting.

 

[heirloomgal]

I have the same experience @phaseolista with peppers. The fruits & foliage of outdoor grown antho peppers tend to be more richly colored than those grown in the greenhouse.