Huge (1lb. and considerably over when well grown) fruit with excellent flavor. This one is said to be older than Radiator Charlie's. It r...Read Moreeportedly goes back to 1922 and is a considerably bigger plant with larger fruit than Charlie's and seems much more prolific. Chuck's seed came from "Bob" Estler, son of the "Bill" Estler who originated the variety. Seed of this variety was sent to Australia in the thirties by the Estler's is probably the ancestor of the Australian variety Mortgage Lifter which has evolved considerably. Chuck found Estler's Mortgage Lifter to be the biggest and most prolific of the eleven Mortgage Lifter strains which Chuck had grown. There seems to be little, if any difference is taste.
Huge (1lb. and considerably over when well grown) fruit with excellent flavor. This one is said to be older than Radiator Charlie's. It r...Read More