What to do with Verde Claro Tomato variety

[Tom Wagner]

Verde Claro.

More than I already know in addition to my thinking it's one of the best varieties I've ever grown

Carolyn,

The General Discussion Forum is the most heavily visited site on Tomatoville.com. This is a better site than Crosstalk to share our discourse about Verde Claro. Others may certainly chime in. I wish to thank you, Carolyn, for your continued enthusiasm for this tomato.

Negotiations to get Verde Claro out to the public are underway, but it is snail paced at best. One international seed company who owns a seed company that strictly wholesales tomato seed to seed catalogs is still in contention.

Second effort.
A Bio-Dynamics style corporation has asked me to merge my Tater-Mater name with theirs. They claim that tomatoes are the largest legal cash crop in the future, provided flavor is addressed. My varieties would be grown on a soil media composed of vermicultured manures and composted green manures of spelt, comfrey, stinging nettle, and alfalfa grown on never before farmed volcanic soils. The idea is to grow these in organic greenhouses where high levels of minerals, micro-organisms, and organic matter would equate in even higher flavors and nutrition. I submitted information for a website construct featuring my work. This is still not a sure thing yet.

Third effort.
A Material Transfer Agreement with a research facility that would offer licensing controls in a Hybrid Verde Claro.

One or more of these efforts could work, or they could all fail.

Verde Claro, for those who don't know,(how is that possible?) is a green when ripe cherry tomato similar to Green Grape tomatoes but with a clear epidermis. For nearly 15 years folks have marveled at the flavor, but the variety and it's closely related clones have not been released.

Tom Wagner