Patty posts elsewhere and I can ask her about it if you want me to.

But I still believe that someone added ginger to the one above.

Carolyn

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The first orange I ever grew was Amana Orange, but when Kellogg's Breakfast (KB) and its PL variant KBX came along I switched to them.

And I'll mention just a few real deep orange ones that I really like in addition to the above.

Earl of Edgecombe
Orange Minsk
Jaune Flammee

I was also the one who introduced Orange Strawberry, seeds to me from Majorie Morris of IND who had found it as a stray seed in a commercial pack of the varietiy Pineapple. Some like OS very well, and some like me find the flesh to be very dry.

And now Valentia, link at the bottom where you'll see that it has not been crossbred, but is the stable result of orderly selections of pre-existing varieties. And good thing that Tania contacted Rob Johnston at Johnny's to get the history since it was Johnny's that first introduced it.

There are quite a few seed sites that list Valentia, that you'll see from the link below.

Yes, I've grown it and don't really like the taste.

Carolyn

I am seriously into growing a gold/orange (delicious, obviously :-)) tomato next year. Maybe 2 varieties. I don't like those pale colored ones, no matter how good they taste. That is me.

So, I am almost decided on Kellogg's (KB not KBX).
Another one that I am leaned to is Cherokee Golden" . Again, I love bi colors. There are plenty of plain pinks and reds to go around.

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If you like the gold/red bicolors then do consider Big Rainbow, Lucky Cross,Virginia Sweets and Marizol Gold to name just a few I like.

You may think that there are plenty of pinks and reds to go around but not me.

When I severed all 4 quads in my right leg in Dec of 2004 which put me permanently in this walker I decided to seek out, for my annual seed offer elsewhere, varieties that would be new to all or most, and I've been very successful at doing that.

This past summer the folks who do seed production for me had a choice of:

Four new ones from Valerian in Romania
Two new ones from the Republic of Georgia
Eight new ones from Reinhard in Germany
Six new ones from Andrey in Belarus
Four new ones from Turkey
Two new ones from Bulgaria
Four new ones from Slovenia

The above I remember but there are more.

And too many new ones to list from folks in the US, most new family heirlooms.

And all pinks or reds, let alone some so called blacks and green when ripes , golds, oranges as well from US folks.

I've been doing these seed offers with ones new to all or most since about 2005 so in the last almost 10 years I've introduced lots of new ones, most listed by Tania now at her superb data base website,

It's time for me to turn over to someone else doing these seeds offers and he will start with the 2016 one since he retires as a teacher this next summer.

I'll still be in charge of seeking out new ones since I now have many many contacts in other countries, as well as in the US and Canada, but he will do all the seed packing and sending, which is very laborious,

The 2014 SSE Yearbook is also the last time I will be listing anything in the SSE Yearbooks.

I've been doing large seed offers since about 2000 and at age 75 and now homebound, it really is time to let someone else do all the work, which is a lot since participants from outside the US can e-mail me which ones they want and I pay the postage to all out side the US, which os not cheap, while those in the US send me a SASE/

So no, I do not think there are ones already available of the pinks and reds to go around.

Is there a perfect tomato for me? No, and that's what has kept me going all these decades growing so many varieties.

Carolyn

True, orange Minsk is not a beautiful looking tomato, most of the time, but speaking for myself, Igrow tomatoes primarily for taste, yield comes next and where I live there are almost no soilborne systemic diseases, just the foliage diseases which ANY variety, OP or hybrid can get depending on the geographic location and any particular season.

Carolyn