instar8, I ordered Momotoro already and when it arrives, I would be happy to set up a trade. Should come any day. I know what you mean about the catalogs! kathleen811

I'm sure I could tell differences in flavors/brix/tart apart ,I've become quite the tomato cork sniffer over time and document them each season. I make notes of growing conditions ,taste test varieties side by side...ect. but to be honest If I was blindfolded and someone asked me to name that tomato... I seriously doubt I could. the closest I could get might be .."that tomato has a potato-leaf Brandywine hint to it" or "this tomato has a zippy green zebra flavor" ...lol and to be honest.... they change season after season anyway.

A PL version of: I have PL versions of the following: *Neves Azorean Red Big Zac Big Beef Porterhouse *Orange Heirloom *Chapman What am I bid? LOL Why don't hybridizers breed more PL's? Well, you've got your Brandy Boy and a few others I can't think of right now, but take the experience of Petoseed with the Husky series. Those varieties have rugose foliage and they were NOT well accepted by the public at all. So from a commercial standpoint I have to wonder if many PL varieties will come out of the larger commercial hybridizers such as Petoseed, Novartis, Sakata, Known-You, Harris-Moran, Takita, for instance, and all the big hybridizing firms in the Netherlands. They all saw what happened with the Husky series. Most home growers are still growing only F1 hybrids. I think those of us who are somewhat tomato obsessed often forget that we have been exposed to many varieties that the general public has not been exposed to We here know of sources for many other varieties, many of them PL, and we raise our plants from seed while most folks don't. I think that the best chance of having some new PL's is going to come from the breeding efforts of Keith Mueller, Bill Jeffers and a few others who are doing lots of crosses that might lead to some darn good PL varieties, and already have, actually. I'd mention Tom Wagner as well, but he hasn't released anything he's bred to the public in many many years. Carolyn

2009 Tomato Season Report The season started off with late frosts and leafhoppers delaying the tomato plant out. May was rainy and cold and by the time the plants were in the ground it was the second week of June. The Sweet 100 plant is the only exception as it was planted around May 15th. June was very wet with a record 8" of rain and no days above 80*. July was still wet and cool with only a handful of days over 85*. August was a little drier but still fairly cool. September was much drier and warmer which got a lot of the tomatoes to flower but it was to late for fruiting. October started off dry and cool but then turned wetter with temps dipping down to 31*. Most of the tomatoes got hit with disease and frost damage after the cold spell. The last part of the month was warmer with temps in the 50's and 60's but several inches of rain brought a bad tomato season to an end well almost anyway. The sweet 100 plant still has a couple more tomatoes ripening on the vine. I had no late blight in my garden a little bit of early blight and at the end of the season septoria leaf spot started showing up. Brandy boy: - potato leaf, medium about 5-ft, average disease tolerance. No ripe fruit but it did eventually flower and produce a couple of tiny green fruit. They both Had severe cracking issues. Crack size: all the way in to the middle of the tomato. The cracking was partly do to uneven moisture but this variety was still very crack prone. Brandywine Sudduth's strain: - potato leaf, medium/tall 5-6-ft, had a several disease problems especially later in the season. No flowers or fruit. Overall very disappointing. Cuostralee: - Regular leaf medium/tall 5-6-ft, Not great disease tolerance but it was able to grow out of the disease. No ripe fruit but it did flower. Japanese Black Trifele: - potato leaf, short 3-4-ft, top of the plant broke in a windstorm. good disease tolerance but not great. first ripe fruit october 30th after ripening indoors for two weeks, 1 ripe fruit. Taste: Gel is sweet with a slight tang to it. The meat is very mild and a little bit bland but it has a faint smoky flavor to it. No problems with cracking. I saved seeds. Marianna's peace: - Potato leaf medium/tall 5-6-ft, good disease tolerance until the end of the season when both plants yellowed. No ripe fruit. both plants flowered . Neves Azorean Red: - regular leaf, medium height 4-5-ft. It did get shaded by the brandywine plant next to it. Average disease tolerance but it would probably do better with more sun. No ripe fruit. the plant didn't even flower probably partly do to the weather and partly do to the shade. Sweet 100: - regular leaf, tall 7-8-ft , average disease tolerance first ripe fruit mid August, ~ 45 ripe fruit. Taste: Sweet with good "tomato" flavor. size small about an inch in diameter. Looks. perfect round bright red tomatoes in clusters of 5-10. Only cracks when ripe fruit are left on the vine during rain. Crack size : Just the skin cracks open not the whole tomato.