Polish (Ellis)

[Tomstrees]

Aren't there a number of "Polish" ......... ?
Like: Polish A, B, C etc. ?

~ Tom

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tomstrees

Aren't there a number of "Polish" ......... ?
Like: Polish A, B, C etc. ?

~ Tom

Yes Tom, there used to be as I've posted here before, but only Polish C survives. No etc., just the first three.

As I remember it was a man named Breault in the Chicago area who named them Polish A, B, and C.

I don't know what A and B were/are and I don't ever remember their being listed in the SSE YEarbook.

I was in touch with this fellow Breault b'c his picture and tomato experiences were in the same article in the New York Times, along with mine, that led to me being approached about writing a book about tomatoes.

Whoa, hold the presses. For the heck of it I went to an early SSE Yearbook and looked up Polish C and found I'd gotten it from SSE member Robert Richardson who lived here in NYS. And I do think that it perhaps was from him that I was told there was an A, B and C and that only C was still around.

But I did correspond with Breault and a very nice man he was.

[korney19]

Originally Posted by Adenn1

The picture below shows the Polish tomatoes I grew last year...seed was from Heirloom Seeds here in PA...a darn good tomato.

Just quoting to get a comparison... yep, mine looks similar... 1lb 3.6oz...

[Tomstrees]

Yeah Carolyn -

I only found this:

Polish “A" PL red and bush form

Polish “B" PL red and bush form

Polish “C”

Soldacki - 75 days, indeterminate, large pink fruit to 18 oz, blemish free

Polish in the 1991 yearbook by bill Ellis, heres the descrip Polish - indeterminate 50-70 days, quick to germ, red...brick to cherry red, plants size up quickly set early, shy to setlater, some fruits small and cherry red to 8 oz, others larger to 1.5 lbs and brick red, no difference in leaf form (PL), cogrowth habit or taste

Polish "C" - very large potato leaf, extremely productive, fruits slightly ribbed w/ good flavor12-18 oz and often come in multiples of 4-5 fruits, from E.S, Peszynski of Minneapolis, MN who got it from a cousin in Detroit who called it "the Polish tomato"


~ Tom

[carolyn137]

Soldacki - 75 days, indeterminate, large pink fruit to 18 oz, blemish free

*****

Good heaven's no. Soldacki, as you know, is a variety I introduced and has bad stem cracking but the flavor is outstanding. Who wrote that is was blemish free?

I'm curious.

Where did you find the brief info about A and B? Did I miss that in a back issue of the SSE Yearbook?

And yes, I have the 1991 SSE Yearbook so I know what Bill Ellis wrote.

Did I miss an entry in the SSE Yearbooks about Polish C? I can look, but you can tell me quicker. Robert Richardson, my source, said nothing about origin.

BTW, since I know of only two folks who have all the SSE Yearbooks going back to 1975 I'm curious as to where you came up with Bill Ellis' 1991 description.

Those two folks are Craig and myself. Glenn Drowns also has almost all of them but he has no time to spend online unless someone asked him specifically via e-mail to look something up and I can think of just a few folks in particular who have been and are supplying him with seeds grown in isolation who might be viable candidates.

[Tomstrees]

Yes Carolyn, its second hand info from a SSE Yearbook ...
I'm not a memeber ... yet !

Thanks,

Tom

[Tormato]

Soldacki - blemish free

Radial cracking & concentric cracking, on the same fruit, made mine look like little, pink, disco/mirrored balls.

Gary