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| A few years ago we were given some seeds by a relative. We were told they were collected from a tomato in Italy while they were visiting there. So we planted them and got some really awesome, delicious tomatoes. We've only ever grown your standard round hybrid types so these were very different for us. They are large, long, pointed at the end, and meaty. We keep collecting the seeds and have been growing them for 4 years or so. They are about 5 inches long. The plants look like most tomato plants except they are...floppier or something. I've included a photo of the fruit (our plants are dead at this point), anyone know what we've been growing? |
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Mon, Sep 1, 14 at 16:11
| Sorry, but there is no way to ID a variety from a picture. They are called, generically as just long reds and are paste tomatoes. They also have originated from many different countries, and no way to know if yours was originally from Italy. Right now I'm thinking of Sarnowski Polish Plum as well as Opalka, also from Poland, both long red pastes, and that's just two out of many of the same kind Once a tomato loses it's name, or label, with few exceptions there's no way to ID it. At the bottom I've linked to known varieties from Italy And here I'm linking to paste varieties, http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Category:Paste_Tomatoes When many Italians immigrated to the US from the late 1800's up to about the 1920's they brought seeds with them and they had no name at all, just ones that had been grown by their family forever. But when SSE started in 1975 many folks were looking for such heirlooms and then they were named, and that's what you see on the two lists linked to here. So I'm afraid you'll have to consider it an orphan, but you could name it yourself, but also knowing that there are many many long red paste varieties that look alike that one can't ID one from the other. Carolyn |
Here is a link that might be useful: Italian tomatoes
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| Agree. We get lots of requests to try to do this every year and if you pull them all up with the search you'll find the answer is always the same - not possible. It could easily be any one of at least 50 different varieties. Just gorw and enjoy it and don't worry about the name - call it what you wish. Dave |
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- Posted by PupillaCharites 9a (My Page) on Mon, Sep 1, 14 at 20:56
| Been there and done that with the help of Carolyn. Just grow and enjoy it and don't worry about the name - call it what you wish. Yes, I find it fun to give it a home-grown descriptive name rather than think of it as an orphan, and if you save the seeds do it with that name since if you're like me, unlabeled seeds usually get tossed. Hmmm ... Pale Indian Corn tomato ... or Sweet Jalapeño tomato ... Piccolo Corno di Toro LOL |
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