Tom's tomatoes in Normandy (France)

[flore]

Hello,
We are small organic farmer, we are happy to show you some of Tom's tomato we grew this year.
Fahrenheit Blues

Blue Bayou

Chadd's ford green

Not the end

[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for the great pictures....I may request to use a couple on my website. Is this Malanie or Florent? I went to the blog of yours and was delighted by the pictures of tomatoes of mine...Lime Green, Soyuz 11, Golden Crabapple, etc...I even have crosses of some of the lines that are not mine, including the Harvard Square.

If you can copy this endtire link into the URL.... translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://lesjardinsdelahague.blogspot.com/p/presentation.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlesjardinsdelahague%2540gmail.com%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DNOU%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dnp

my readers can see a translation

Good Work...hope to see more fruits

Tom

[flore]

Hello,
Yes, it's Florent and Mélanie  Thank you for the translation link. 

Santa ana 2013, 2012's segregation. Productive and good flavor. Like a little "ananas noire" (black pineapple in US?). Seen to be stable (8 wines)?


Our selection 2013 for Golden crabapple, 2012's segregation. Not stable yet. We found a wine with deep orange, four or six seed's cells. Parthenocarpic? Some gel with not viable seeds, hard to harvest seeds. Wonderfull taste.


Our selection 2013 for "Red" (Golden) crabapple, 2012's red segregation. A red type with the same caracteristics.


Bye

[Tom Wagner]

It is great to see those last three clones in such good homes. I might be interested in a couple of seeds per line to try out here in the states and/or use in further breeding. I have an outstanding rin variant of the Santa Ana that I would like to cross with your version.

[flore]

Hello,
It's a pleasure Tom!!!!
Another Tomato : Betimes Macbeth.
5,3kg/plant (48) this year, very attractive, easy to harvest, long keeper. We will grow more next year to propose cheaper organic tomato at the marquet. We segregate one plant last year to increase the taste.
Very interesting tomato for organic farmer!!!!





Another interresting tomato : Soyuz 11
We send last year some sample to our friend, all are enthusiastic this year, especially producer. Here, it will stand in for Black Prince (better flavor) and Black Krim (more productive).


You send us a little sample of it in 2011 as gift, today it's our most cultivated black tomato. Thank you!!!!!

[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for listing the Betimes Macbeth....I really like this one and it is great for the first processed tomato of the season and should be for just about everybody...

I have lots of F-1 hybrids made with Betimes Macbeth as a male parent. I will have lots of segregations to play with in a couple of years.

The tomato Soyuz 11 or better identified as Soyuz Eleven looks great....glad I sent you a sample

Here is what I wrote about it two years ago here on this forum..

SOYUZ ELEVEN is a case in point. This is a fairly stable line that I created out of the cross of Volkov and Black Plum…both Russian varieties. It was named for the last space mission of Cosmonaut Volkov who died upon re-entry to earth, and the capsule experienced a malfunction and hypoxiation killed Volkov and two other Cosmonauts back in 1971.

SOYUZ ELEVEN is a near perfect black tomato resembling a smaller version of a Cherokee Purple. It has the smokiness of a lot of black tomatoes but, “Man….is it ever tangy with a touch of sweetness!” The fruits are about 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter with about 5 to 6 locules. Great production and the flavor was enhanced partly due to absolutely no artificial irrigation growing on a raised bed under a low tunnel.

[khumlee]

hi flore,
with this kind of tomatoes you gonna do blush lot of tomatoes producers in Normandy even in others lands of France. Native to Normandy, i'm now near Bordeaux, but i go some time in Normandy in the year, I will be happy to meet you if you are ok, and may be exchange seeds or others things.

[jemlestomates]

Bienvenu Flo et Mélanie

[flore]

Hi!
It's a french rendez-vous
It's to see your beautifull photo, Jem, that decide us to come here!
Khunlee, it will be a pleasure to meet you! Tell us when you come here or send us an email if you want, we will can write in french
Sorry Tom , Soyuz eleven

Russian cossack
We have several strains but few (no) pictures  This one makes big tomatoes whith blue shoulder.

[gvozdika]

Nov 9, 2013 2:55:47 GMT -8 flore said:

Hi!
Russian cossack
We have several strains but few (no) pictures  This one makes big tomatoes whith blue shoulder.

Flore, these are amazing looking tomatoes. How different were the other strains? How do they taste?

[benarysmile]

Seems to be quite interesting , would like to be try at earliest.

[cortona]

hello flore, yur photo of russian kossack simpli make me in hury for spring! do you have some seeds for trade sale? especially of this srain?

[flore]

Hello,
If you want something, let's send us a message  It's a pleasure.

How different were the other strains? How do they taste?

This year we collect seeds from several strains of Russian. In 2012 we have named "colorfull" Russian cossack a mix of seeds from several very beautiful tomatoes.
So, we have (all are determinate) :
"little" russian cossack (a round version)
Russian cossack, (the photo)
"very blue" russian cossack (large blue shoulder)
"rose oxhearth" cossack very beautiful, meaty. Fine blues zebra on the shoulder. We hope that the blue color increase in next générations.
In the greenhouse, we found a lot of other variations, but we only keep this four ones.
Bye

[Deleted]

Nov 7, 2013 10:02:13 GMT -8 flore said:

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My Golden Crabapple fruit were the same sizes although I only got the orange color and not red or wine colored. Out of all my plants I only saved one selection. That one had good flavor and was the smaller cherry-type size. I did not save the larger crabapple types. I prefer smoother fruits. Which reminds me... I have to send Tom some seed. The seed that I saved was from R9 P1 on the far right.


That is an interesting segregate of Russian Cossack. I have not had any that big. Maybe I need to grow more plants. Nice pictures.

Here is the link to the Golden Crabapple thread. tatermater.proboards.com/thread/909/golden-crabapple

[flore]

Hello Terrybob,
We look your Golden Crabapple. Your selection take another way than our... You are good too!!!! Most cherry are so big, we hope to see the result of yours next year. Here, it's a fight with GG, red color is dominant, we hope next year more "golden color" and an indeterminate wine. And, if it's possible an harvest that no need tool, just the hand when they are ripe. When you harvest a lot of cherry this is very important!