Looking for Daniels tomato seeds. It's a pink PL beefsteak. Mine must have gotten a virus in the seed, the plants were abnormal. It's one of my favorites, can anyone help me out?

Marsha--
I have a few Daniels seeds. I haven't grown it yet, but I got the seeds in last year's MMMM swap. If you PM me with your address, I will send five seeds to you...I have a total of 10, and I'd like to keep half for myself!

wodehouse

wodehouse wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:46 pm Marsha--
I have a few Daniels seeds. I haven't grown it yet, but I got the seeds in last year's MMMM swap. If you PM me with your address, I will send five seeds to you...I have a total of 10, and I'd like to keep half for myself!

wodehouse

That's so nice of you, but I can't take them when you only have that few. I think a friend is going to send me some, and I think they are originally from me to her! Thank you for your generous offer.

@Ginger2778 I have some from 2014 and 2015's MMMM. You are welcome to them if you like. I know that if they grow for you that you would send me a few back.

MissS wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:50 pm @Ginger2778 I have some from 2014 and 2015's MMMM. You are welcome to them if you like. I know that if they grow for you that you would send me a few back.

Patti, I think I'm going to have what I need from a good tomato friend who saw this request. She is actually going to send me back a few of my own seeds from before the newest crop, which went stupid. It's kind of you to offer. Much appreciated.

Daniel's sure sounds nice! I'll put that variety on my list to. I'm a sucker for big fat slicers.

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:07 pm Daniel's sure sounds nice! I'll put that variety on my list to. I'm a sucker for big fat slicers.

It's lovely. I grow it every year, and there's a reason!

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:11 pm

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:07 pm Daniel's sure sounds nice! I'll put that variety on my list to. I'm a sucker for big fat slicers.

It's lovely. I grow it every year, and there's a reason!

Do you know how to save tomato seed? If so, if you would save me a few, we can do some trading! I'm doing Omar's Lebanese this year.

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:54 am

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:11 pm

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:07 pm Daniel's sure sounds nice! I'll put that variety on my list to. I'm a sucker for big fat slicers.

It's lovely. I grow it every year, and there's a reason!

Do you know how to save tomato seed? If so, if you would save me a few, we can do some trading! I'm doing Omar's Lebanese this year.

Yes, I know how to save seed. Sure I'll save you some, but they won't be ready until February of next year. I'm in south Florida, and we start seeds in September to grow in the winter, when it finally gets cool enough for fruit to set.

I'll add that Daniels is a great tasting tomato. And, there is a regular leaf version of it. The RL one was awful in my garden, grown right next to the PL one.

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm I'll add that Daniels is a great tasting tomato. And, there is a regular leaf version of it. The RL one was awful in my garden, grown right next to the PL one.

I love the PL one so much. I was so disappointed to see it have a distorted plant growth this season. I grow it every year without fail.

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm I'll add that Daniels is a great tasting tomato. And, there is a regular leaf version of it. The RL one was awful in my garden, grown right next to the PL one.

Sounds like it's an unstable variety then?

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:34 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm I'll add that Daniels is a great tasting tomato. And, there is a regular leaf version of it. The RL one was awful in my garden, grown right next to the PL one.

Sounds like it's an unstable variety then?

I think that both have been around long enough for them to be considered stable.

As for the RL that I trialed, it could have been a cross, a mixup of seed varieties, something else, or the real Daniels RL. I'll never know, as it was so poor tasting, that I tossed the seeds. I've had the poorest tasting of pink tomatoes show up in the off-type leaf version of a true variety a few times before. I tossed those seeds too.

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:34 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm I'll add that Daniels is a great tasting tomato. And, there is a regular leaf version of it. The RL one was awful in my garden, grown right next to the PL one.

Sounds like it's an unstable variety then?

No, it's stable. Almost a true heirlooom.

@TomatoNut95
I think they just meant there are two stabilized varieties, one RL and one PL. There are a lot of varieties like that. KBX is a potato leaf version of Kellogg's Breakfast, for instance. There's a potato leaf version of Indian Stripe (known as Indian Stripe Potato Leaf). The list goes on. Named varieties like these are not to be confused with random crosses that end up with the wrong leaf type. Granted the named varieties with the different leaf type probably arose from crosses initially, before being stabilized (unless the leaf type mutated or something). So, just because it has mostly the same name and seems a lot like the other one doesn't mean it's actually 100% the same other than leaf type. KBX and Kellogg's Breakfast, for instance, seem to do better in different conditions.

So does anyone know of a reliable commercial source for Daniels ? It's on my bucket list and I need to get some.

Yak54 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:53 am So does anyone know of a reliable commercial source for Daniels ? It's on my bucket list and I need to get some.

If you can wait until next January, I'll have a fresh supply and you can just have some. But you'll need to remind me, no way this old brain will remember.

Sand Hill Preservation has it for $2.25, and you'll probably get a very large number of seeds for the price: https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pink-tomatoes

"No way this old brain will remember" ....My old brain is probably older than your old brain so you may have to remind me to remind you