Mark Twain Tomato

[Kazedwards]

Has anyone grown this variety? I am this year and I'm very excited to see want I will get. From the little info out there it is a red regular leaf indeterminate of medium to large size fruit. I am curious as to the history of it. From what I have read it is said to be older but no one knows more that that.

Here is Tatiana's link for it.
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Mark_Twain


-Zach

[JLJ_]

You may have seen the posts below, but they were all I could find fairly quickly.

It's mentioned a couple of places in this thread

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=27017

and here, by the same person,

http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....34&postcount=1

and again, same person

http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....31&postcount=2

and again, same person, who apparently thinks highly of it

http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....3&postcount=12



This is a post from early this year by that same person -- last couple of sentences about Mark Twain. He seems to have gotten unexpected results with Mark Twain -- might alert you to see how your performance compares -- and as this poster seems to be intermittently active recently -- could be that if you keep this thread going with occasional reports about whatever your Mark Twain does, you might get some comparisons from him and/or others who've grown it.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....&postcount=174

It's briefly described in this list, by ANOTHER PERSON

http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....5&postcount=11

I'm sure I've seen more discussion about it than the above, but haven't time hunt more, but hopefully some others will have more to offer.

A general web search for Tomato Mark Twain did come up with quite a few hits - mostly from seed sellers -- but sometimes those will include valuable data if you check them out, even if you don't need seed. Just a thought.

[carolyn137]

Yes, I grew it many many years ago, seeds from Fox Hollow Farms, and as Tania says, about like Rutgers, but I think Rutgers is better than Mark Twain. I grew it b/c of the name,long live Samuel Clemens who called himself Mark Twain in his presentations..

Sorry, but I can't say anything very positive about it,but that's the way it is.

Carolyn

[swellcat]

Hope it is worthy.

Here is an appropriate accompanying beverage:

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http://3nationsbrewing.com/beer/american-wit/

[Kazedwards]

Wow thank you you for the info on past threads. I searched but didn't go back that far. I will post updates on it throughout the season.

The name is one of the reasons I was excited to grow it. I live in Missouri so anything with a Missouri tie I try to grow.

That is an appropriate beverage indeed!

Thanks for the info everyone.


-Zach