Kozula's Crosses

[GunnarSK]

The best known breeder and crosser of tomatoes in Poland is Anna Kozula, who has been producing her own varieties for five years, although she started out as a typical market grower with stable varieties. In her own words, She chanced into breeding, when a friend of hers brought a tomato, which was of an "amateur" variety, but tasty , beautyful and productive enough to warrant a market "experiment". There were 3 seedlings, from which seeds were taken, for this was thought to be a stable variety. 4 tunnels were planted, but.... total disaster. A strange mix of horned ones, including determinates and dwarves. In spite of the look most of the tomatoes were sold, because they found buyers because of their flavour. She decided to improve them by crossing and selection, and that has been going on for 5 years now with some improvement of the result along the road.
Now she has become a master of crossing, and her seeds were distributed to many different people, including me. Like she says herself, her market growing is different from everyone else's, because each plant is different (unique).
Most of her crosses were between "American" and Polish varieties, and I may post a complete list later.

[Frog]

Sounds very exciting.

[GunnarSK]

Kozula's master list (everything seed was distributed for in early 2010):

(non-Polish varieties used in crossings and distributed after grow out)
1. Amish Salad, red heart
2. Black from Tula, black with plenty of flesh
3. Black Krim, black, naturally salty
4. Black Japanese Trifele, black, non-cracking
5. Black Zebra, avoid too much nitrogen in fertilizer because of bad taste
6. Big Zebra
7. Copia, yellow with red stripes,fruity taste
8. Cherokee Purple, black with plenty of flesh
9. Grightmires Pride , pink heart with short internodes for this type
10. Kalman, fruit oblong, long internodes, suscptible to dry rot, never tart
11. Purple Russian, black with oblong fruit

(cherries, cocktail tomatoes):
12. truskawkowy (seed from store bought F1)
13. Oblong fruit with "real" tomato taste
14. Huge trusses
15. truskawkowy x Dyno
16. truskawkowy x pink plum, indeterminate Ff (resistant against fungal brown leaf spot)
17. truskawkowy x Purple Russian

(breeding lines)
From Pink Ff x Copia, all indeterminate:
18. yellow plum with pink nuances, sweet
19. yellow with pink stripes Ff
20. purple - chocolate Ff
21. red Ff
22. pink, weak stripes Ff
23. orange, weak stripes Ff
24. green-purple stripes, rather tart
25. green striped with pink nuances Ff
26. pink with green stripes, by full ripeness changing to yellow Ff
27. pink with yellow stripes Ff
28. pink with short yellow stripes Ff

From Big Zebra x Black Pear, indeterminate

29. pink with green stripes, by full ripeness changing to yellow, strong colour
30. yellow with red stripes

From Black Zebra x Orange Strawberry , indeterminate

31. red striped

From Steak Sandwich x Pink King

32. pink dwarf plum Ff, weak seedlings, big fruit
33. pink determinate Ff, strong foliage
34. pink determinate Ff
35. pink determinate Ff, strong colour
36. pink indeterminate Ff, round, productive, good consistency
37. pink indeterminate Ff, big fruit, flattened, remove double blooms

From pink Ff x Kalman

38. pink indeterminate Ff, oblong fruit


(Crosses, indeterminate)

39. Albenga x Beeforange, red or orange
40. Albenga x Big Zebra
41. Albenga x Black Zebra, red, mid size, productive
42. Albenga x pink round Ff
43. Albenga x pink flattened Ff
44. Amish Salad x pink flattened Ff, red or golden
45. Big Zebra x Orange Strawberry
46. Black Japanese Trifele x Black Zebra
47. pink round Ff x Anna Russian, pink, between heart and "ordinary"
48. Black Japanese Trifele x Cherokee Purple
49. Black Zebra x Big Zebra
50. Black Pear x Kalman, red, for poor locations, sensitive to excessive nitrogen
51. Black Pear x pink round Ff
52. Caspian Pink x Dyno
53. Caspian Pink x Kalman, pink
54. Caspian Pink x Pink King, pink
55. Cherokee Purple x Black Zebra
56. Cherokee Purple x pink round Ff
57. Cherokee Purple x pink flattened Ff
58. CLX 37 397 x pink flattened Ff, pink, there should be little goo
59. Copia x Beeforange, red or orange
60. Copia x Big Zebra , yellow striped
61. Copia x Black Zebra, red and green striped
62. Copia x Orange Strawberry
63. Costoluto Genovese x Big Zebra
64. Dyno x Bawole Serce from market,
65. Dyno x Big Zebra
66. Dyno x Copia
67. Dyno x pink flattened Ff
68. Dyno x Orange Strawberry , red, early, productive, tasty - disadvantage - long internodes
69. Faworyt x pink flattened Ff, pink
70. Faworyt x Pink King, pink
71. Grightmires Pride x pink flattened Ff, pink
72. Israeli Striped x Big Zebra
73. Israeli Striped x Black Zebra
74. Israeli Striped x pink flattened Ff
75. Kalman x Anna Russian, pink heart
76. Kosovo x pink flattened Ff, pink
77. Kosovo x Pink King, pink
78. Lnisno x Big Zebra, red, Lnisno is a pink heart
79. Lnisno x Copia, red
80. pink round Ff x Big Zebra, red
81. pink round Ff x Dyno, red
82. pink round Ff x Kalman, pink
83. Malinowy Warszawski x Pink King, pink
84. Orange Strawberry x Anna Russian, red heart
85. Orange Strawberry x Big zebra, red
86. Ożarowski Złoty x Orange Strawberry, yellow, productive, rather tart
87. Persimmon x Dyno, red
88. Persimmon x Orange Strawberry, yellow
89. Persimmon x Pink King , red
90. Purple Russian x Black Zebra, red
91. Purple Russian x Cherokee Purple, black
92. Purple Russian x Dyno, red, may be smokey towards "black"
93. Razzle Dazzle x Anna Russian, pink, Razzle Dazzle is very hard/firm
94. Razzle Dazzle x Dyno, red
95. Steak Sandwich x Anna Russian, pink
96. ( Beeforange Ff x Orange Straw.) x Big Zebra, probably orange heart

98. ( Dyno x Orange Straw.) x Bawole Serce from market
99. ( Dyno x Orange Straw.) x pink round Ff
100. Ożarowski Złoty x ( Beeforange Ff x Orange Straw.)
101. Big Zebra x Pink King, red
102. CLX 37397 x Copia, red
103. CLX 37397 x -pink Ff, pink
104. Kalman x Bawole Serce from market, pink heart shaped
105. pink determinate Ff x Anna Russian, pink, between heart shaped and "ordinary"


Two year old seeds (from 2008)

106. Bawole Serce from Plantico x Orange Strawberry, red heart
107. Bawole Serce from market x Orange Strawberry, red heart
108. Bawole Serce from market x Bawole Serce from Plantico, red or golden
109. Beeforange x Orange Strawberry, orange
110. DRK 7014 x Bawole Serce from market
111. DRK 7014 x Orange Strawberry
112. Dyno x Kalman, elongated fruit, golden, tasty
113. Kalman x Dyno - different look and taste than cross of the same parents reversed (female x male)
114. Orange Strawberry x Bawole Serce from Plantico, red heart
115. Orange Strawberry x Bawole Serce from market, red heart
116. Orange Strawberry x Pink King, red

Segregation and selection necessary:

117. (Black Zebra x Copia) F2 , red and green stripes, should be striped in different colours
118. (Dyno x Big Zebra) F2, this may be a striped plum, to get something interesting you have to grow at least 10 plants.


A "lost" one in the end:

119. pink determinate, early, tasty, from Steak Sandwich

[Tania]

Gunnar,

Is this a full list?

Are any of these stable?

Tania

[travis]

What are the parental lines of those numbered 126 through 139?

[GunnarSK]

Originally Posted by Tania

Gunnar,
Is this a full list?
Are any of these stable?
Tania

This is a full list of what she offered one year ago. Some of the breeding lines may be semi-stable, as they are F3-F6. There is an updated list on The Tomato Garden, and Darthslater is doing the distribution in the US etc. (don't know positively if Canada is included).

[GunnarSK]

Originally Posted by travis

What are the parental lines of those numbered 126 through 139?

The "varieties" 126-139 have an undisclosed parentage, but inferring from the fact that all dark varieties and "zebras" are from initial Copia crosses you can find out something. There is more information on The Tomato Garden, but even there it's incomplete.

[korney19]

It's 5-6 years later.... any updates?

[Wi-sunflower]

I don't know how I missed this thread initially. I just found it thru a link at Tomatobase.

Anyway, I was given seeds for quite a few of the Kozula varieties. Several of them have been stubborn at giving me decent seeds. At the moment I have 6 varieties I list seeds for and several others I'm still working on. Some are a bit variable but many have stabilized fairly well. Most that I have are now at F5 or 6 or higher.

My personal favorite is #14 as that's a great little tomato I can take to market. I only take cherries and small stuff to market because I'm not allowed to sample if I have to cut anything. Cherries I can offer whole. And the taste is what sells them.

Carol

[Keen101]

interesting. any pictures of these segregating crosses? Anything truly unique. I'm less interested in stable lines, more interested in things that are different. These polish tomato lines sound interesting.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Keen101

interesting. any pictures of these segregating crosses? Anything truly unique. I'm less interested in stable lines, more interested in things that are different. These polish tomato lines sound interesting.

Keen, why don't you PM Gunnar and ask. He just reappeared here after a long absence from Tville just several weeks ago and perhaps he can help.

Carolyn