Ace 55 Questions

[Irv Wiseguy]

A local hardware store chain has veggie plants on sale this week; 99¢ for a 3" pot and $1.09 for a 4" pot. The 3" plants looked leggy so I concentrated on the plants in 4" pots and came home with an Ace 55 tomato.

I've tried searching for Ace 55 here with no results, and a Google search has mixed results. According to different websites, Ace 55 is:

Determinate
Indeterminate

Heirloom
Not an Heirloom

Mid season
Late season.

Can anyone who has grown Ace 55 give me the real untold story?

Thanks

Irv

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Irv Wiseguy

A local hardware store chain has veggie plants on sale this week; 99¢ for a 3" pot and $1.09 for a 4" pot. The 3" plants looked leggy so I concentrated on the plants in 4" pots and came home with an Ace 55 tomato.

I've tried searching for Ace 55 here with no results, and a Google search has mixed results. According to different websites, Ace 55 is:

Determinate
Indeterminate

Heirloom
Not an Heirloom

Mid season
Late season.

Can anyone who has grown Ace 55 give me the real untold story?

Thanks

Irv

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Ace_55

Irv, when wondering about a variety I suggest that you go to Tania's data base site before you start Googling if a search here brings up no information.

Since it was only bred in 1965 by Asgrow I wouldn't consider it an heirloom variety.

When you're through reading the page I linked to go to the upper left and click on HOME and see all the ways you can search for varieties and Tania herself sells seed for about 600 varieties. I prefer the alphabetical way of finding a variety for most general searches.

And when at HOME you might want to consider adding it to your faves b'c I know you'll be using it in the future as many of us do.

[Irv Wiseguy]

Carolyn,

Tatiana's Tomato Base is one of the websites I go to for tomato information, but being new to all this and after seeing conflicting information on other sites I wasn't sure which site was most accurate.

After reading many of your contributions on this and other message boards I value your opinions about tomatoes and am appreciative that you would take the time to answer my questions. If you say the information on Tatiana's Tomato Base is accurate I believe it.

Thanks

Irv

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Irv Wiseguy

Carolyn,

Tatiana's Tomato Base is one of the websites I go to for tomato information, but being new to all this and after seeing conflicting information on other sites I wasn't sure which site was most accurate.

After reading many of your contributions on this and other message boards I value your opinions about tomatoes and am appreciative that you would take the time to answer my questions. If you say the information on Tatiana's Tomato Base is accurate I believe it.

Thanks

Irv

Irv, not every seed source site is owned by folks who have grown what they list and they often don't even do any research on what they offer. They buy from wholesale places and the like. And some just copy the traits from other sites and if wrong those errors get magnified.

Sources of tomato seed for a seed site can include producing their own seed, buying off the shelf and subcontracting out seed production. And some do a combo of any of those three. It's best, I think, to buy seed from those who do most of their own seed production b'c they know the individual varieties better than others who have not grown them.

Tania hasn't grown all that she has pages for but she takes the time, when she has the time, to do as much research as she can to present accurate data.

[dice]

You can often find descriptions of these commercial cultivars
at the North American Cultivar List:
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/w...vgclintro.html

[Irv Wiseguy]

Thanks for the link, Dice.

Thanks again for your help, Carolyn.

Irv