unknown kinked paste

About 15 years ago I participated twice in Catharine Vinson's Internet Tomato Trials.

Out of the couple of dozen numbered varieties I grew, one impressed me.

It was a long narrow red with a distinct kink and a curved nipple. It was delicious. I was used to making sandwiches from many sliced cherries, and this tomato made a sandwich all on its own when sliced lengthwise. It made sandwich-eating so much less messy.

I saved the seeds and sent them back as requested. Unfortunately, I sent them all back as I expected to be told the name of the tomato so I could buy it in future.

I did not find out the name, and have been looking at pictures of long tomatoes ever since, trying to find out what it was. I have seen pictures of tomatoes with a tiny point, but none with a long kinked one. A couple of the photos of Opalka on Tatiana's site look somewhat similar.

I bought some seeds of Opalka to try this year, but are there any other possibilities?

[Wi-sunflower]

Sounds like it could be Jersey Devil. I don't have the best pic as it will often be somewhat curved too. But this one shows the point.

Carol

[PNW_D]

Here's this list from 1999

http://web.archive.org/web/200901051...varieties.html

all 603 varieties

Thank you both. Jersey Devil looks like a good candidate, and both it and Opalka are on the Wayback Machine list.

[Father'sDaughter]

You can do a search at Tatiana's site for "elongated" which will bring up all the ones included in the Tomatobase.

[Boutique Tomatoes]

Polish Linguisa is another one that has a distinct kink in most of them, it's one of my favorites of this type.

[Wi-sunflower]

Did a book ever come from all that growing ??

Carol

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Did a book ever come from all that growing ??

Carol

No, it didn't Carol.

I just posted about that in the Ildi thread and here's the cut and paste that I just did:

Originally Posted by LDiane
I grew several kinds of multifloras a few years ago. I'm sure the catalogue stated I'd have hundreds of tomatoes so I was disappointed that most of the flowers did not become fruit. I thought there must be a problem with my conditions. Now I've read that it is normal for only some to fruit.

Has anyone tried a bit of shaking or pollinating or ??? to see if more of the flowers will become fruit?

(Yes, I have, with Riesentraube, which is also a multiflora, and it makes no difference.

The number of blossoms on a multiflora truss is way more than that which can become fruit, so blossom abortion occurs.

And you've taken me back in memories to that Catherine Vinson site as you posted elsewhere here. Chuck Wyatt was a regular there as you know and he'd pass along info to me and more specifically said that she started the site as a way to get back at me for being a know it all, as Chuck told me.Really sad, actually.

It's too bad the site floundered and then crashed when she lost the data b'c I think something good could have come from it.)

Carolyn

carolyn137

[Wi-sunflower]

Actually the post above is the first I had heard of the whole project.

While I've been growing tomatoes for a long time, I was more into hot chiles around the time that was going on.

I got my first computer in 95 and didn't get internet until around 98. So I was quite an internet newbie about then and didn't know about all these great sites then. I was on eBay and not a whole lot else.

It's a shame the the reason for the trials wasn't more honorable. More would have come from it if it had been .

Too bad.

Carol