Just to clarify and summerize: This variety was given to Linda Baronowski Smith by an acquaintance named Ray Tefft.
Both these folks lived near Toledo, Ohio at the time--about 1997. Tefft said he had gotten the seed from an old German guy who had subsequently passed away. Linda asked me to try the variety, I was impressed with the productivity and taste, eventually hung the name on it, and distributed seed broadly through the old ITG tomato forum group.

Bill Minkey has listed seed for this variety in several years in the SSE annual, and I did send seed to him. However he describes it as a 2" diameter red when, in fact it is a maincrop type red at 2.5 to 3.5 inches, indeterminate, and about 76 DTM. Some mixup here evidently.

Is there anyone out there who can help?

Here's his description, which is a bit different from what you said above :

HAS 75 days, indet, regular leaf, 1.5 oz ( that's ounce not inch) ball shaped red cherry fruit, very good sweet flavor, from ( I'll just say you here instead of your full name and cites where you live in PA) via Linda Baronowski, Toledo. Ohio, via old man named Ray Tefft who got it many years ago from an old German guy.

So Bill was listing a cherry tomato which is quite different from what you said it was most recently, that is a 2 " diameter whereas Bill said 1.5 oz.

Did you contact Bill and talk about the discrepancy when you first saw him list it.

How come you didn't list it if you are/were an SSE member since you referred to SSE Yearbooks b/c I would think that would be the normal thing to do. ( smile)

Is there any chance what you sent him was crossed seed or do you know that your seed was pure and it was his saved seeds that were crossed?

Now someone might pop up here who has seeds, but if they don't I see two ways to go here, well now three with the link below.

One is to contact Linda Baronowski and ask for more seeds. The other way is to contact Bill and see if he has any of the original seeds you sent.

But since no one seems to have relisted it in the YEarbook and I haven't seen anyone mention it at the several places where I post, well I just got excited when I did a Google Search and found a reference to it from this past summer but it was YOU who was reporting on it here at GW. LOL

Check the source below. The name is mentioned but not for seeds. You have to go to the link in blue and post what variety you're looking for.

And I also checked Tania's data base and she doesn't list it either.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

I know what it's like to lose a variety, I really do. Sigh.

Carolyn

I've been a member of SSE for most years since about 1993.
Sometimes I would neglect to send in my dues then get back on the ball the following year. What with the orchard I used to do plus the several big gardens, and the often heavy travel schedule from my job at Bayer there were a lot of loose ends in my life until retirement in 1997.

Now I'm trying to pick up some of the loose ends, back down out of several other hobbies, and just kind or cruise her out.

No, I did not contact Bill, meant to, but never got down to doing it. My guess is that I might have messed up the seeds as well as Bill because I was sending out a lot of them in those days. So far as the cross goes I have noticed it in 4 tries over the past 4 years. Last year I
discarded 1 packet of seed and selected an older one to grow out. Still crossed.

At this point, 4 seeds which I sent more than 10 years ago to St Louis and then were traded to Australia are in the mail coming back to Beaver Falls, PA!!!!!

I'm going to need some luck and there will be special care.
And then we will pray for a spark of life next spring--at least 1 spark!

Larry