Dark Orange Muscat tomato

[Tom Wagner]

Dark Orange Muscat.

indet., unique dark orange cherry, green inside, shoulders are brownish, sweet fruity flavor. Bred by a Washington tomato breeder
OR ST A 08 (Andrew Still of Drain, Oregon) / Madeline McKeever of CV Brown Envelope Seeds, Ireland / a seed saver from Washington state

65-70 days. Indeterminate. Tall vines produce unique dark orange cherries with bronze shoulders with some green inside. Sweet, fruity flavor. This cherry tomato has traveled across the pond at least twice: Madeline McKeever of Brown Envelope Seeds in Ireland received this seed from a seed saver in Washington State while at an Organic Seed Alliance conference; & while we were in Ireland, we picked it up from her & brought it back to the Pacific Northwest.

I was at that Organic Seed Alliance conference...I may have given out samples...and I am a seed saver and breeder from Washington. The tomato sounds like something I would have created and Muscat is a name I am very familiar with since grapes of that name were grown in California during the late 80's and earlky 90's.

A picture of the fruits.


I am posting about this one since there is some question of who the Washington breeder/saver is. Therefore, I used the pollen from it today on 18 different female varieties. I crossed it to Primary Colors, Stripes of Yore, Flaming Burst, Green Grape Beyond, Boxed Brandy, Make My Day, Blue Goldy, Dancing with Smurfs, Helsing Junction Blue, F-1 Dr. Carolyn x Green Zebra, F-2 Sky Reacher x Green Brandy and couple of others I can't remember now. Oh, yes...Trunnel Stake. I can pick up what is in Dark Orange Muscat through the progeny.

And for the record I am on tag number 535...all crosses are during the last three weeks.

[jayb]

Thanks for the post Tom, I knew there was some connection to Brown Envelope seeds. It does seem to be a well travelled variety, one I'm growing this year, so another across the pond trip!

[Tom Wagner]

Across the pond tomatoes are getting to be among my faves.

Just today picking ripe tomatoes from seed of mine sent t o Japan, Austria, new Zealand , France, etc., and back to me are amazing .

Will post pictures later

[Tom Wagner]

i.imgur.com/rp3ooFH.jpg
The link above shows what is left of a butchered tomato after seed extraction and tasting.

This is an F-1 cross of Dark Orange Muscat x Skykomish. Both parents are orange but the hybrid is mostly red. The oranges colors seem to cancel each other out and reverts to the wild type which is red. Obviously we don't have the same gene for orange/gold flesh.

The seed extracted is complicated...a four way cross:

.... F-1 (Dark Orange Muscat x Skykomish)
F-1 ___________________________________

.... F-1 (Tegucigalpa Paste x Blush)

I have this seed and hundreds of other freshly extracted seed awaiting my sowing for a late high row tunnel grow out hopefully down in Woodburn, Oregon.

Trying to photograph all of my crosses along with flavor tests and seed processing is taxing to say the least. Hundreds of varieties yet to extract

How many seed are put away for the cross above? About 40

What is my perceived best clone to pull out of this mess? In a generation or two...a long fruit like Tegucigalpa with the Blush trait on a bicolor orange with late blight resistance! I may need all need all forty seed to set up the segregation right off, reselecting during the F-3 progeny

[jemlestomates]

hello Tom,

Thanks for all that information ...

this is a picture of Dark Orange Muscat taken last year . (I love the color and texture of this tomato)