New dwarves offered by SSE in the 2006 Yearbook

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The right full name for this tomato is Gruntovij Gribovskij 1180 (or Gruntovy Gribovsky 1180 as I used to call it because there is one letter in Russian "ы" which is very hard to translate in English). It was bred by the famous Gribovskya Vegetable Selection Experimental Station one of the first Soviet (Russian) breeding organizations founded in the small village Gribovo (Moscow region) in 1920 by the statement of Soviet goverment (signed by Lenin). Most of first Soviet (Russian) vegetable varieties were bred by them and they highly used word "Gribovskij" or "Gribovskaya" in names of their varieties.
Gribovskya Vegetable Selection Experimental Station has been trasformed to VNIISSOK (Soviet Scientific Reseach Institute of Vegetable Selection and Seedbreeding) in 1971 and renamed Russian Scientific Reseach Institute of Vegetable Selection and Seedbreeding (but still VNIISSOK) in 1992 after the collapse of USSR.

Gruntovij Gribovskij 1180 tomato - early (50-60 days after transplanting), red, determinate, RL, round fruits of 60-80 g in open ground and about 100 g (up to 150 g on the first cluster) in greenhouse, height 40-50 cm (up to 1 m in greenhouse). This is a standart variety for Russian early tomatoes still widely distributed by many Russian seed companies. Cold tolerant (- 2 C). Better for salads than for canning.