variety information

[peispud]

Trying to complete my tomato database while waiting for rest of my tomatoes to ripen.
Can anyone help me with the variety description for these please:

Kings
German Queen #3
Poil Blanc
Dad's Giant Polish Brick
Catherine Simms
Boetz
Roughwood Golden Tiger
Hawkins (same as Mr. Hawkins or ?)
Dutchman Non-Acid
Croatian Heart Mystery
Andes Horn
Thill's Potato Leaf Pink
Latvian Perfect Heart
Wladedi's
Fax And Mary
Mortgage Lifter Halliday
Hillbilly Kamleah
Hamilton
Red Pearl
Marianna's A Russian
Hahms Glebe


Thanks.

Peter

[strmywthr3]

poil blanc - fuzzy white/yellow golf ball size - sweet tasting IND

Hahms gelbe topftomate - dwarf plant - 6" tall - yellow cherry

[nctomatoman]

Mortgage Lifter, Halladay's - This is a typical Mortgage Lifter (indeterminate, very large sweet pink fruit) that made its way into the SSE via James Halladay of Pennsylvania. For a few years, Curtis Choplin of SD collected Mortgage lifters from several sources (Rieger, Cartright, Halladay) - the descriptions of all of them were pretty much the same. The assumption is that these are all just various people's selections of the original Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, as maintained by various families.

[Andrey_BY]

Boetz is seems to be another Reinhards/Mannfred's German miswriting of the Russian tomato variety name Boets (meens "a fighter" in English). A good early Siberian determinate variety with elongated plum shaped red fruits. Another (the second) name for this variety is Bouyan.

[ddsack]

Latvian Perfect Heart is my choice of designation for a heart shaped tomato descended from seed of Latvian origin given to my parents by friends. For the last few years, I have been selecting for shape. Later this fall when my season is done, I will post some pictures and descriptions of where I am in this fun project.

Description is a large mid-season pink heart, tall, vigorous vines though whispy as seedlings, dense flesh, few seeds, ideally hearts should be symmetrical and flattened, with a much larger two lobed top and distinct bottom point. I have sent some very limited seeds out in trades so there may be some floating around in Tomatoville, but it's too early in the selection process to expect total perfection The flavor has always been good - similar to other hearts, but at this point I am concentrating on the shape.





Dee

[korney19]

From Chuck Wyatt, 1999:

"Mortgage Lifter, Halladay's- (70 Days) Indet. Good yields of huge, smooth pink fruit. 1-3# Outstanding flavor. Earlier than other Mortgage Lifters."

"Dutchman- Huge mid season indeterminate. An old beefsteak, large and sweet, 1-2#"

I grew Dutchman last year and thought it was a very sweet tomato, and its raw juice (from cutting the tomato, not tomato juice made from it--I didn't make any juice) was very red, unlike many other tomatoes that are often much more clear. The variety is sometimes called "The Dutchman" or just "Dutchman." I also have this description below, PI303721:

"Old strain that features purplish pink fruits with mild flavor. Large meaty fruits are very sweet."

I don't recall if that was the USDA's description or if from SSE Garden Inventory.

[ddsack]

Peter,

Thill's Potato Leaf Pink is one I sent you as well. Description is a large, pretty shaped, smooth skinned pink beefsteak, less prone to catfacing than others, midseason, 14oz to over 1lb common. Meaty, good flavor. Source was tomatoes from an old farmer in the Jordan, MN area who could not remember where he got his plants from, so could have been a commercial source by another name.

Dee

[peispud]

Thanks everyone! That's cutting my missing info
varities down quite a bit.
I've done a lot of "googling" on my collection and
these few are the only ones I am getting no "hits"
with descriptions. I hate sending people a list and not being able to tell them what to expect when they grow them. It also will make it easier to decide what to grow next season.

Peter