The Kumato Tomato Thread
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Comments (1)I'd never heard of kumato before, so I looked it up on Wiki. Sounds like you are lucky to have access to these....See MoreHAVE: Kumato tomatoe
Comments (1)I am looking for one or more tomato that are sweet, juicy, tasty, productive and would not crack easily. Would you please suggest something for me? Please see if you like anything on my list. Thank you....See MoreKumato F2 growing advice? If any?
Comments (3)You don't know if the Kumato you saved seeds from is genuinely F1. In the case of Campari, the people who have grown it out found it be quite similar. I recently participated in a global swap and Kumato F2 was shared by a participant--a lot of people have the seeds and I expect this coming fall there will be discussion about the reliability of the F2. Whatever they will be I expect them to at least be yummy. It's certainly worth a growout. T...See MoreKumato.
Comments (5)Link at the bottom to find about 30 threads about Kumato from here at GW, originally introduced by Syngenta in Europe, sold there first, then in the US as either Kumato or Rosso Bruno. Some like it, some can't stand it, I'm in the latter group, and is it an F1 Hybrid or not? No clear answer and plenty of folks have saved F2 seeds and get variable results in subsequent growouts... The original info into that Syngenta put out as to origin is absolutely hilarious as in the Galapagos Islands, but then it was traced to the origin being in Spain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumato Terry's blog from 2008 when it first hit the market and contains some of the earliest info put out by Syngenta that I referrred to above. http://tomatoaddict.blogspot.com/2008/04/kumatorosso-bruno.html Happy reading! Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Kumato...See Morecarolyn137
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