The sick mind behind Good Mind Seeds

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

Skano, my name is Phil Seneca and I am a tomato breeder and seed keeper from Onodowaga nation, split by the US/canada border, a member nation of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee confederacy.

I center my seed keeping efforts around the preservation and restoration of staple indigenous food plants like corn, beans, squash, sunroot, sunflower, amaranth, apios, and others, and incorporate other crops from elsewhere in Turtle Island like tomato which has become a bit of an obsession for me.

Working on keeping precolumbian domesticated tomato gene pools adapted to modern diseases, incorporation of novel alleles from wild and species tomato introgression, expanding on the founder genetics of the OSU and striped cultivars, and micro-dwarf development are some of my top priorities next to basic selection of flavor and productivity.

Last year I released Grungy in the Sky Bicolor, which won 1st place at the 2014 Buffalo/Niagara annual tomato competition, for best tomato flavor overall. A collaborative effort, the late Valerie (Grungy) McMurray developed one of the parent lines, and the other was Skykomish developed by Tom Wagner, who preformed the original cross pollination between them. Since then I have been selecting for color, production, flavor, and inheritance of strong late blight resistance due to the homozygous recessive PH2 and PH3 genes from Skykomish. It seems that all of our mutual effort resulted in a future classic, something truly special. In addition to Grungy in the Sky I have recently released a number of other unique and exclusive cultivars which I hope you take the time to investigate at tatiana's TOMATObase.

I am grateful for the support I have received in my work with tomatoes and hope to find others here with interests similar to my own.

Onah ki wahi, skennen.
-Phil Seneca

peppero · April 17, 2015

Welcome to T'ville.

jon

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

Grungy in the Sky Bicolor:

image deleted - M.

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by peppero

Welcome to T'ville.

jon

Thanks Jon!

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

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PhilaGardener · April 17, 2015

Welcome, Phil Seneca! You might want to post in the Seed and Plant Sources part of the forum as well. We hope to see more of you here!

efisakov · April 17, 2015

Welcome to TV!

heirloomtomaguy · April 17, 2015

I retract my praise

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

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Originally Posted by efisakov

Welcome to TV!

im on TV!? lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy

Hello Phil I have purchased several tomato varieties from your website. You are one of the few seed vendors i will actually buy from. Glad to see you made your way to tomatoville. Welcome and hello from a fellow preserver/breeder.

wow thanks for the high praise tomaguy. im glad to be here too.

efisakov · April 17, 2015

TV is short for Tomatoville...

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

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Originally Posted by efisakov

TV is short for Tomatoville...

the only "TV" that matters! (or maters for that matter)

heirloomtomaguy · April 17, 2015

Sorry to put you on the spot but is this you in both the picks.

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

no you can tell by the mustache that it is clearly my evil twin.

PhilSeneca · April 17, 2015

now that you have exposed me i may as well put a link to the article the photograph is from

link deleted - M.

heirloomtomaguy · April 17, 2015

Why do you assume he is evil? I had another link from the "guy" on the right. I sure hope you are truthful because the guy on the right is one racist, baker creek, and Tomatoville HATER! Here are the links i found
https://m.prod.facebook.com/turtleis...03943329082109
https://m.facebook.com/nativeappropr...01186783930203
https://m.facebook.com/turtleislande...01383308643198

April 17, 2015	#1
PhilSeneca BANNED Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 21	The sick mind behind Good Mind Seeds Skano, my name is Phil Seneca and I am a tomato breeder and seed keeper from Onodowaga nation, split by the US/canada border, a member nation of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee confederacy. I center my seed keeping efforts around the preservation and restoration of staple indigenous food plants like corn, beans, squash, sunroot, sunflower, amaranth, apios, and others, and incorporate other crops from elsewhere in Turtle Island like tomato which has become a bit of an obsession for me. Working on keeping precolumbian domesticated tomato gene pools adapted to modern diseases, incorporation of novel alleles from wild and species tomato introgression, expanding on the founder genetics of the OSU and striped cultivars, and micro-dwarf development are some of my top priorities next to basic selection of flavor and productivity. Last year I released Grungy in the Sky Bicolor, which won 1st place at the 2014 Buffalo/Niagara annual tomato competition, for best tomato flavor overall. A collaborative effort, the late Valerie (Grungy) McMurray developed one of the parent lines, and the other was Skykomish developed by Tom Wagner, who preformed the original cross pollination between them. Since then I have been selecting for color, production, flavor, and inheritance of strong late blight resistance due to the homozygous recessive PH2 and PH3 genes from Skykomish. It seems that all of our mutual effort resulted in a future classic, something truly special. In addition to Grungy in the Sky I have recently released a number of other unique and exclusive cultivars which I hope you take the time to investigate at tatiana's TOMATObase. I am grateful for the support I have received in my work with tomatoes and hope to find others here with interests similar to my own. Onah ki wahi, skennen. -Phil Seneca

April 17, 2015	#7
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	Welcome to TV! __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

April 17, 2015	#8
heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	I retract my praise __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." Last edited by heirloomtomaguy; April 18, 2015 at 12:11 AM. Reason: found out the truth

April 17, 2015	#10
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	TV is short for Tomatoville... __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

April 17, 2015	#13
PhilSeneca BANNED Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 21	no you can tell by the mustache that it is clearly my evil twin. __________________ [B][CENTER][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]-[/COLOR] Phil Seneca [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]-[/COLOR] Goodmindseeds.org [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]-[/COLOR][/CENTER][/B]

April 17, 2015	#2
peppero Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: selmer, tn Posts: 2,944	Welcome to T'ville. jon

April 17, 2015	#6
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	Welcome, Phil Seneca! You might want to post in the Seed and Plant Sources part of the forum as well. We hope to see more of you here!