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Hard Tomatoes on the market

Posted by ykerzner 9 (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 15, 09 at 16:53

I know the subject is vague, but does anyone know if there are any tomatoes currently sold in produce stores, in the United States, that have been bred for better taste and still survive the trip from growing fields to grocery stores? Sort of what the Flavr Savr tomato tried to do, but not necessarily genetically engineered. Are the tomatoes that LSL produced still sold, notwithstanding Hazera Genetics' acquisition of LSL?


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RE: Hard Tomatoes on the market

If you can remember some of the varieties that LSL used to offer maybe you can ID some of those varieties as named and pictured at Hazera's site, link below.

Whether any are currently sold in grocery stores is going to be the problem as I see it, b'c grocery store tomatoes are not usually IDed by name, except for something like the Desert Sweets from Israel.

There are three new F1's. not GMO's that were recently released by Dr. Randy Gardner of NCSU and I trialed all three this past season and there was one of them that I thouoght had excellent taste and shelf life.

Smarty F1 was offered last year by Johnny's, a grape tomato

Plum Regal F1, a small plum, seed production by Bejo seeds in the Netherlands and to be found in some retail catalogs/websites for 2010.

Mountain Magic F1, a largish cherry, seed production also by Bejo and to be offered retail in 2010.

I thought shelf life was best for Smarty and Plum Regal but best taste, also with decent shelf life, was with Mt Magic/

Flavr- Savr? What an awful tomato. I ended up calling it summerspringwinterfall b/c the darn fruits would sit on the counter for a couple of months with no change. But ugh as far as taste was concerned. ( smile)

Carolyn

Here is a link that might be useful: Hazera


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RE: Hard Tomatoes on the market

Wow! Thank you very much for the information. I need to know this because I'm doing a research paper on the Flavr Savr tomato.


 
 

 

 


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