Big Pink Heirlooms

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Alpinejs

Douglas....I just inquired on another thread about any sources for seeds for Weisnicht's
Ukranian. Do you know a seed source. Tania doesn't list any. Glad to hear it did well in
Minn. as I am just across the lake from Minn. in Ontario.

I just answered you in the short list thread and here's a cut and paste of my answer. I was also trying to explain what it takes to get a variety available commercially

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I found the listing for Weisnicht's Ukranian in the pink section of the 2012 SSE YEarbook as well as in the 2011 Yearbook and the same two people listed it both years.

The one person has a short blurb and says he got it in 2008 from the other person who is the originator of the variety and has a very long blurb.

First, both list the variety as RL, so Doug, I'm not sure where your PL came from.

Second, the German word for white is weiss, and weiss in German can mean either white or knows, so one could translate the name to "knows not" if for the fact that there is only ONE S in the variety name.

Or, the name could reflect the name of the person who immigrated from the Ukraine and sent to the person who is listing it. And I just checked and the person who is that originator of this variety, ta da, has a last name of Weisnicht.

With probably 500 plus large pink varities I don't know why a comparison was made with just Soldacki as being bland, and I say that despite the fact that I'm the one who first introduced Soldacki.

It only takes one person who grows a variety to send seeds to a seed site for trial, but if a variety isn't well known, as is true for this one and many hundreds of other listed in the SSE YEarbooks, then there won't be a commercial source.

Many here know that if I grow varieties I really like I send them for trial to TGS, Sandhill Preservation, Gleckler Seedmen, Victory Seeds and Jeff Casey's Herilooms of Ardrie and also send them to other friends as well. And I've been sending seeds for trial for several decades but more lately since after a fall in Dec of 2004 I can no longer grow out the many hundreds of plants and varieties each year b'c I'm chained to a walker. And when that happened I tried very hard to find varieties that would be new to ALL or most folks and have been quite successful at that.

But for 2013 I'm deleting almost all of my SSE tomato listings and concentrating on my annual seed offer here at Tville where I offer pretty much the same I've been SSE listing and more. For 2013 the number of varieties will be way down b'c the persons who di seed production did not get good results this past summer.

Some of those places I just mentioned can turn around a variety in one season and offer it for the next season, some have to subcontract out seed production. Of the above I mentioned I know that Adam Gleckler and Glenn Drowns at Sandhill and Mike at Victory seeds will be offering some of the varieties I sent them last Spring and just haven't touched base with Jeff to ask about that nor with Linda at TGS.

And I don't send the same varieties to each place. Most of them get pretty much the same, but others don't.

The owners of several seed companies are SSE members and very occasionally they will pick up something and run with it, but not usually something that for two years has had only two listers, at least in my experience.

SSE membership is not for everyone for various reasons. And the SSE Yearbook has become a place to get seeds but no longer a place to preserve varieties by relisting varieties procured from others, and preservation was the sole reason that SSE was started in 1975.