Spanish stripes

ilex · August 19, 2015

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charline · August 19, 2015

very nice!!!
is spanish stripes the name of the variety?

ilex · August 19, 2015

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Originally Posted by charline

very nice!!!
is spanish stripes the name of the variety?

No. It's an old heirloom from Spain.

Gerardo · August 19, 2015

Tiene muy buena cara. ¿Cómo se ve por dentro? ¿Ácido? ¿Balanceado?

Nice looking. How's it look on the inside?

ilex · August 19, 2015

In my notes I have: very good flavour, 8 brix.

Best varieties this season were 9 brix, and I don't remember it being either very acid nor low acid, so I would say balanced. I do remember it is very good.

**carolyn137** · August 19, 2015

And I'll be sending that e-mail soon from your wonderful listing of Spanish varieties you listed in the 2015 SSE YEarbook, for SSE members only, b'c no way am I going to try and find the 73 varieties you did list to see if the one above is one of them.

Yes, I'm interersted in the colgar ones, but even more so in the large beefsteak ones and yes, I do know the red Huevos de Toro made its way to France and was renamed Couilles de Taureau, but a few years ago I know you said there were different Huevos ones of different colors.

You are a treasure of information Ilex, and don't forget that.

Carolyn, will pay your requested price, in cash, which you prefer, but can also offer you some very good US made chocolate for some Spanish chocolate.

This is the place I used to order jamon and some cheeses and nougat, but now I don't see any listings for chocolate and nougat, Torrone? or several other goodies I ordered by catalog since I refuse to order anything online. Besides, the prices got too high for me anyway.

http://www.tienda.com/support/links.html

Salsacharley · August 19, 2015

This tomato looks very similar to Cascade Lava and Feuerwerk.

**carolyn137** · August 20, 2015

I think it's good to remember that when tomatoes were first distributed it was Spain to where they went first. So there's been much more time there for cross pollination to occur than probably anywhere else.

And the first ones as I recall, I could fetch the history sometime, were yellow ones, and the first ones sent to ITaly were yellow, but then as often happens, some of the yellow ones in Spain morphed into red ones, so we have to go back to about 1600 AD to when the first ones went to Spain, and that's long enough for accidental crossing, seed DNA mutations and somatic mutations to lead to a huge diversity of varieties in Spain, and that contiues.

I just remembered that the first ones in Italy were called pomme di Oro. or apple of gold.

Here you go, the best tomato history I know of other than Andy Smith's book on the history of the tomato. Enjoy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

Carolyn

justplainmike · August 20, 2015

Very interesting thread !
jpm

PhilaGardener · August 20, 2015

Amazingly beautiful, ilex! A true Spanish legacy in so many ways!

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ilex Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Spain Posts: 416	Spanish stripes [br][br][br][br] Last edited by ilex; August 19, 2015 at 04:16 AM.

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carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	And I'll be sending that e-mail soon from your wonderful listing of Spanish varieties you listed in the 2015 SSE YEarbook, for SSE members only, b'c no way am I going to try and find the 73 varieties you did list to see if the one above is one of them. Yes, I'm interersted in the colgar ones, but even more so in the large beefsteak ones and yes, I do know the red Huevos de Toro made its way to France and was renamed Couilles de Taureau, but a few years ago I know you said there were different Huevos ones of different colors. You are a treasure of information Ilex, and don't forget that. Carolyn, will pay your requested price, in cash, which you prefer, but can also offer you some very good US made chocolate for some Spanish chocolate. This is the place I used to order jamon and some cheeses and nougat, but now I don't see any listings for chocolate and nougat, Torrone? or several other goodies I ordered by catalog since I refuse to order anything online. Besides, the prices got too high for me anyway. http://www.tienda.com/support/links.html __________________ Carolyn

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carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	I think it's good to remember that when tomatoes were first distributed it was Spain to where they went first. So there's been much more time there for cross pollination to occur than probably anywhere else. And the first ones as I recall, I could fetch the history sometime, were yellow ones, and the first ones sent to ITaly were yellow, but then as often happens, some of the yellow ones in Spain morphed into red ones, so we have to go back to about 1600 AD to when the first ones went to Spain, and that's long enough for accidental crossing, seed DNA mutations and somatic mutations to lead to a huge diversity of varieties in Spain, and that contiues. I just remembered that the first ones in Italy were called pomme di Oro. or apple of gold. Here you go, the best tomato history I know of other than Andy Smith's book on the history of the tomato. Enjoy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

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charline Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: France Posts: 688	very nice!!! is spanish stripes the name of the variety?

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Gerardo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: San Diego-Tijuana Posts: 2,598	Tiene muy buena cara. ¿Cómo se ve por dentro? ¿Ácido? ¿Balanceado? Nice looking. How's it look on the inside?

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Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	This tomato looks very similar to Cascade Lava and Feuerwerk.

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justplainmike Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: 15698 Posts: 29	Very interesting thread ! jpm

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PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	Amazingly beautiful, ilex! A true Spanish legacy in so many ways!