2024/2025 Tomato Spoiler Alert

[Tormahto]

Top is Loxton Lad, middle is Awesome and the small red is Maura's Cardinal. Awesome rivals Loxton in taste. First time growing Maura's and this 3-5 oz is very good. All are Dwarf Project tomatoes. The small cherries are Maglia Rosa and Carbon Copy. It doesn't seem that CC is being grown much anymore and it took some effort to get this old seed up. To me it's the best tasting cherry I've grown but does crack easily on the vine.PXL_20240818_141018966.jpg

My seed, directly from Ron, several years ago, were labeled Ron's Carbon Copy. I don't know if he's still around, and has stopped using his first name. He sent me about 200 packs, of which I distributed all, but by now any unused seeds are getting old.

[JayneR13]

'm planning to send in some Jaune Flamme and Japanese black trifele Along with a few others, such as Firebird Sweet, Glovel, red Siberian, and San Marzano. And anything else in my stash that's aging and should be sent on!

[NYTomatoNewbie]

Please don’t directly respond to this list with quotes so that I may continue to edit/update the list with more varieties that I have finished bagging. If you are participating in this swap and there is something on this list you would like, please either directly send me a message or add it to your wish list posted in the wish list thread by October 1st. I will put together an envelope labeled with your username so that when I send the package to Gary he can easily put your seeds in your package without having to sort.

Kryptonite tomato - small dwarf green antho
The Fuzz tomato - small dwarf peach colored fuzzy
Striped Jester tomato - small striped dwarf orange, yellow, red
Big Rainbow tomato - large yellow with red striping
Jersey Giant tomato - large red paste tomato
Buffalo Sun tomato - dehybridized large orange/red
Rosella tomato - brown cherry
Blueberry tomato - antho cherry
Amethyst Jewel tomato - medium antho
Pink Berkley tie dye tomato - medium pink with green stripes
Skykomish tomato - medium yellow
Red Capia tomato - from Nikitovka package
Ratunde Saracheu tomato - from Nikitovka of ackage
Fatima tomato - medium dwarf early
Green Frosted Doctor tomato - green cherry
Isis Candy tomato - yellow orange cherry
Sunrise Bumblebee tomato - yellow orange striped cherry

Flowers - see this thread

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Beans
Yellow Indian woman
Cranberry fielder
True cranberry
Mountaineer
1500 year old cave
Lina Cisco bird egg
Northeaster
Black nightfall
Blue ribbon
Blue Jay bean
Quincy pinto

[karstopography]

Bagged up 33 bags of Red Barn seeds today for the swap. Almost every bag had seven seeds. One or two, eight or six.

[Tormahto]

Bagged up 33 bags of Red Barn seeds today for the swap. Almost every bag had seven seeds. One or two, eight or six.

Although very few people request the Category, Red Barn might go into the Oldie But Goodie one, with the Red Category as a backup, but not the Beefsteak Category.

There are so many beefsteaks of all different colors, I don't keep a separate bin for beefsteaks. I just pull them from the other bins in filling a request, including the Eastern European one.

[karstopography]

Bagged up 33 bags of Red Barn seeds today for the swap. Almost every bag had seven seeds. One or two, eight or six.

Although very few people request the Category, Red Barn might go into the Oldie But Goodie one, with the Red Category as a backup, but not the Beefsteak Category.

There are so many beefsteaks of all different colors, I don't keep a separate bin for beefsteaks. I just pull them from the other bins in filling a request, including the Eastern European one.

I think Red Barn should be more widely grown. Darn good tomato. Big, very flavorful, productive.

I’ve got to bag up Cuostralee, Brandywine Cowlick’s, and Black Krim. I don’t know if I have quite 33 bags of those each. Most of everything else I send for tomatoes, besides Hoy, Sart Roloise, and Red Barn, will be small change, onesies, twosies type of stuff. Tough year to get it together with a hurricane coming so early in the summer. Maybe I still have some significant amounts of 2023 tomato seeds still stashed away. Coyote, Dester, Pruden’s Purple, something.

[karstopography]

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Another tomato bagged and ready to ship.

[karstopography]

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Starting the drying of the Orange Cosmos seeds. Should have a lot more of these if the weather cooperates. These evidently don’t have any dormancy requirements in cold weather as they continue to volunteer in my summer garden. These are the second or third generation for 2024. Self sowing flowers that keep on keeping on. I think the flowers are pretty and obviously they handle heat, humidity and even drought well.

[bjbebs]

Came to me as Polish several years ago and assumed it was the Ellis strain. Went back to the oldest saved seed for this year's crop. As good a pink as you can grow. Big production, with a well rounded balanced taste. The 2nd picture is a cutting that went into dirt a couple weeks ago. This will make fruit by early October.

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[BurgundySnail]

Came to me as Polish several years ago and assumed it was the Ellis strain. Went back to the oldest saved seed for this year's crop. As good a pink as you can grow. Big production, with a well rounded balanced taste. The 2nd picture is a cutting that went into dirt a couple weeks ago. This will make fruit by early October.PXL_20240828_204201650.jpgPXL_20240828_223020656.jpg

Yes please!

[Tormahto]

Came to me as Polish several years ago and assumed it was the Ellis strain. Went back to the oldest saved seed for this year's crop. As good a pink as you can grow. Big production, with a well rounded balanced taste. The 2nd picture is a cutting that went into dirt a couple weeks ago. This will make fruit by early October.PXL_20240828_204201650.jpgPXL_20240828_223020656.jpg

Yes please!

Careful, there. Hooper is ready to lower the cage into the water.

[MissS]

Came to me as Polish several years ago and assumed it was the Ellis strain. Went back to the oldest saved seed for this year's crop. As good a pink as you can grow. Big production, with a well rounded balanced taste. The 2nd picture is a cutting that went into dirt a couple weeks ago. This will make fruit by early October.PXL_20240828_204201650.jpgPXL_20240828_223020656.jpg

Do not assume that this is Polish Ellis. There is a variety of tomato that is named 'Polish' and that is what you should be calling it. There is are varieties named,
Polish
Polish (Ellis)
Polish C
Polish Dwarf
Polish Egg
Polish Giant
Polish Giant Heart
Polish Giant Paste
Polish Heart
Polish Linguisa
Polish Non-Acid
Polish Paste
Polish Pastel
Polish Pink
Polish Yellow Dwarf

Please don't mix this up with the tomato called Polish Ellis (Elles). Assuming a name is one way that off-types get passed around.

[MissS]

Is that a snail or a SHARK

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[Tormahto]

Is that a snail or a SHARKimages.jpg

Most snails move too slow to create a wake. But our resident snail...

[bjbebs]

Seed will be sent in as Polish just as I've done in the past

Came to me as Polish several years ago and assumed it was the Ellis strain. Went back to the oldest saved seed for this year's crop. As good a pink as you can grow. Big production, with a well rounded balanced taste. The 2nd picture is a cutting that went into dirt a couple weeks ago. This will make fruit by early October.PXL_20240828_204201650.jpgPXL_20240828_223020656.jpg

Do not assume that this is Polish Ellis. There is a variety of tomato that is named 'Polish' and that is what you should be calling it. There is are varieties named,
Polish
Polish (Ellis)
Polish C
Polish Dwarf
Polish Egg
Polish Giant
Polish Giant Heart
Polish Giant Paste
Polish Heart
Polish Linguisa
Polish Non-Acid
Polish Paste
Polish Pastel
Polish Pink
Polish Yellow Dwarf

Please don't mix this up with the tomato called Polish Ellis (Elles). Assuming a name is one way that off-types get passed around.

[karstopography]

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Added B. Cowlick’s and Black Krim today.

[BurgundySnail]

I've got to say - american way of saving seed is very tiresome! all I've ever done was smear seeds on paper and leave it be!

What I have currently drying out and will be sending:

Russian Purple aka Ukrainian purple - black plum
Dester - beef pink
Amazon Chocolate - beef brown/black
Severnye - beef pink
Northern lights - bicolor beef
Tigerella - ball size striped
Apricot Zebra - ball size orange and it might be a competition to Sungold? It's very sweet and fruity. Is it even a tomato? I wish someone could compare it to sungold.
Honeydrop - orange cherry. again, OP alternative to Sungold.
KARMA purple multiflora - purple large cherry

Dets and dwarfs:
Cream sausage - plum size cream color
Grushovka - plum pink
Praire fire - striped long cherry. Semi det
Lime green salad dwarf - ball size GWR
Firebird sweet dwarf - small beefsteak? striped

And watermelons! Lemon drop and Leelanau Sweetglo.

More to come...

[Tormahto]

I've got to say - american way of saving seed is very tiresome! all I've ever done was smear seeds on paper and leave it be!

What I have currently drying out and will be sending:

Russian Purple aka Ukrainian purple - black plum
Dester - beef pink
Amazon Chocolate - beef brown/black
Severnye - beef pink
Northern lights - bicolor beef
Tigerella - ball size striped
Apricot Zebra - ball size orange and it might be a competition to Sungold? It's very sweet and fruity. Is it even a tomato? I wish someone could compare it to sungold.
Honeydrop - orange cherry. again, OP alternative to Sungold.
KARMA purple multiflora - purple large cherry

Dets and dwarfs:
Cream sausage - plum size cream color
Grushovka - plum pink
Praire fire - striped long cherry. Semi det
Lime green salad dwarf - ball size GWR
Firebird sweet dwarf - small beefsteak? striped

And watermelons! Lemon drop and Leelanau Sweetglo.

More to come...

Smearing seeds on paper is fine for home use. But for trading, once they go into sealed zip baggies or coin envelopes, mold can easily develop.

[BurgundySnail]

I've got to say - american way of saving seed is very tiresome! all I've ever done was smear seeds on paper and leave it be!

What I have currently drying out and will be sending:

Russian Purple aka Ukrainian purple - black plum
Dester - beef pink
Amazon Chocolate - beef brown/black
Severnye - beef pink
Northern lights - bicolor beef
Tigerella - ball size striped
Apricot Zebra - ball size orange and it might be a competition to Sungold? It's very sweet and fruity. Is it even a tomato? I wish someone could compare it to sungold.
Honeydrop - orange cherry. again, OP alternative to Sungold.
KARMA purple multiflora - purple large cherry

Dets and dwarfs:
Cream sausage - plum size cream color
Grushovka - plum pink
Praire fire - striped long cherry. Semi det
Lime green salad dwarf - ball size GWR
Firebird sweet dwarf - small beefsteak? striped

And watermelons! Lemon drop and Leelanau Sweetglo.

More to come...

Smearing seeds on paper is fine for home use. But for trading, once they go into sealed zip baggies or coin envelopes, mold can easily develop.

Probably...
If dried well there's no issues with mold. At least I've never seen it. My family, my husband's parents and a couple of their friends always just smeared seeds, dried them and put in envelope.

[bjbebs]

First pic is Daniel Burson. Went back to my oldest saved seed (2015). One in ground and another in a 25 gal cont. This is an early mid-season producer. Big fruit in late June early July. June's extreme heat caused many flowers to fold so there was a lag in production until mid Aug. With a pedigree of Indian Stripe and Daniels you would expect great taste.
Next up are big reds, Gallego. Grew to replenish old seed. Went into the ground in late May. Always late and stingy when it comes to production but it doesn't take many when 2 pounders are common. Few seeds and solid fruit.
Cut fruit are my best tasters, D Burson top, Bear Creek left and Captain Lucky. Cap. Lucky was and still is the big producer this year. 2 plants will make well over 50 lbs.
Fresh seed will be sent in.
All container grown tomatoes were watered when needed. Tomatoes in dirt were grown dry and were smaller. None saw any food during the season, just rich soils loaded with worms.

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