Please help with these tomatoes

[hmacdona]

Hi everyone,

I received these seeds in for the swap and cannot find any information on them anywhere. The person that sent them in received them in a trade, then grew them out. They were labelled exactly the way they were labelled when she received them. I was able to get a brief description, but am hoping the experts here will be able to tell me a little more.

* Mosage - described as mid season, medium size
* Big Salad - late season, bigger than a cherry, tasty
* Early Pink from Far East - late season and more or less a beefsteak

I am hoping to find out if there is any possibility any of these are hybrids. If not, wanting to know......indeterminate or determinate, color, size, type (cherry, beefsteak, paste, etc)

I found reference to Big Salad Ukranian, but do not know if that is the same as big salad and I don't want to assume anything. I like to make sure names are correct before they got passed along to other participants...and I need to be sure these could not have been collected from hybrid plants.

Any help on these varieties would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much.....Heather

[OddBall]

Heather,

I have searched around for Mosage, and found the following,

The Mosage Tomato is an Open Pollinated Tomato, developed by Agricultural Experiment Station in University of Missouri-Columbia to have resistance to Fusarium wlit Race 1, Mosage is Vigorous Indeterminate mid-season kind of Tomato, with Red crack resistance oblate fruits averaging 5 oz, and can reach 6.8 oz in early in the season.

Source: University of Missouri-Columbia's Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin 681, October, 1958

[hmacdona]

Thanks so much OddBall. I appreciate your help with this.

[OddBall]

You're welcome Heather,

I have searched about the other two, no luck so far with Big Salad, and here what I got so far with Early Pink From Far East

Origin: Soviet Union (Russia)
First mention in publication: Gardeners Dictionary, Edition 8. London - April 16, 1768
Fruit Colour: Red
Fruit Shape: Round

The Variety was tested at EUSOL and have a picture of it, but it have conflicting results, for example plant type, 2 Indeterminate and 1 determinate

Also, seeds were donated to IPK Gatersleben by Seed Savers Exchange, I have searched the store but it didn't have it

Plus, the seeds looks like been traded around in the forums on the internet since 2009

Hope this will help

Sources:
* EUSOL (Test Data, and Photo)
* IPK Gatersleben (Origin, Donor, Publication)
* Hausgarten (Photo)

[hmacdona]

Wow! Thanks OddBall. Don't know how you managed to dig so deep to find all this information. I tried searching several resources and regular google searches came up empty.

This helps a lot. Thanks again

[Tania]

Heather,

Re Early Pink from Far East -

there is a Russian tomato called "ДАЛЬНЕВОСТОЧНЫЙ розовый" which translates as 'Pink from Far East' (see http://dacha-market.ru/inernet/5779/...1/?pos=1266565), it was developed in Siberia, so it could be possible someone added 'early' to the name... It is described as a pink fruit up to 400 grams, so it is a large tomato fitting your description.

I really hate it when names are translated, as it is very hard to tell (if not impossible at all) what was the original tomato variety. Sigh.

[Tania]

Oops, forgot the transliteration for the name: It is Dalnevostochnyi_Rozovyi (http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/D...ochnyi_Rozovyi).

I grew it in 2008 and liked it very much.

[hmacdona]

Thanks very much Tania.

[matilda'skid]

Mosage sounds interesting I just ordered Mozark because I live in the Missouri Ozarks.