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I have 6-10 seeds I can send you. The one plant I had last year died before it fruited. Am trying it again this year. Supposed to be a 2-4 oz reddish brown in color, very prolific, with an unusual but very good taste. PM me your addy if you want the seeds. I am looking for seeds of a Japanese cherry tomato called Amakko. If you happen to see a source for those please let me know.

I was giving the seeds of the Kumato one year and had some tomatoes that were brown and others that were more different colors, one was dark with green and they were big so it must been one the parents of the hybrid, I like them but didn't grow them again. The first purple tomatoes that I grew when the line was not stable were some of them purple and others were red. I grew this season the Indigo purple tomatoes that someone send me the seeds and this time they are stable and all the plants were purple, when they ripen they turn red at a bottom, they take longer than other varieties to ripen, it does not have a knockout flavor but it is good in salads, cooked or roasted. I grew the brown cherry and the black cherry together one time to compare flavors and I did like the black cherry better, this season I am growing black pearl. Smarty F1 cherry tomato, the first to ripen and the first to go, next to a plant of Indigo tomato. Lars, sorry about your cold weather, we are having such a mild weather that I had 2 banana bunches ripen at the same time and I have 4 more to ripen now in the trees. I have been busy making banana jams, breads and dehydrating them. This time I made so many breads back to back to compare the flavor and we really like the best the monkey bread recipe. Silvia

Season's end report, on KUMATO, the brown tomato: Mission accomplished. My F2 Kumato produced consistently true fruits in size, color, texture and taste, just like the one that I took the seed from. I planted it in a 6gallon pot and it did well. The main branch forked just once and the branches are about 5ft tall . I like that compact feature. The plant produced about 20 fruits in 4 trusses. The average fruit size being 3 to 4 oz. Not too bad for a small compact plant in a pot. I have already saved seeds (F3) and will plant it next year. END OF KUMATO ADVENTURE> Sey