Geranium Kiss Tomato?

Greatgardens · November 28, 2016

Has anyone grown this? A dwarf determinate, supposedly with some tolerance to Septoria and Early Blight. Tatiana appears to be out of stock, but Totally Tomatoes and Nichols are advertising it.

-GG

Ken B · November 29, 2016

We grew out a seed crop on our farm this year for the new SESE catalog. It's got Late Blight resistance, not Early Blight resistance -- Carol Deppe writes about it in her latest book, The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, she thinks it's going to be a useful tomato for Late Blight resistance since the resistance may come from the more unusual S. homboldtii that Alan Kapuler used to breed it.

Anyway: we liked it, it's got good flavor (but not a top 10 tomato or anything), besides the disease resistance (lasted til frost for us), it's interesting for being a multi-floral dwarf tomato. (Has some variability in height, but overall still a dwarf!)

A.P. Whaley Seed Co. is offering it wholesale this year, so a lot of other seed companies will be carrying it too!

Greatgardens · November 30, 2016

Thanks! That's useful information!
-GG

Greatgardens · November 30, 2016

...Did a bit of Googling on the breeder Alan Kapuler. Videos on YouTube. Interesting guy, for sure.

Starlight · December 1, 2016

I grew it down here and had no problems with it except that for mine it put out hundreds of blooms all at once and I had tons of small tomatoes all at once that didn't ripen before frost hit down here. it may be labeled as a dwarf, but I would call it a mini dwarf. My plants didn't get more than a foot tall and about as wide.

Would I grow it again, yes, because it held up to extreme heat, drought and humidity and had no disease problems. Next time, I will just start it alot earlier in the season as my plants kind of just sat there for awhile before they finally took off.

ShowmeDseeds · December 3, 2016

I grew it in southern Missouri, and never got around to taking three plants out of two-gallon containers.

They produced good tasting salad tomatoes from early July until last week when we had our first hard freeze.

I think Southern Exposure Seeds will post them online with other new listing on December 6.

November 28, 2016	#1
Greatgardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,124	Geranium Kiss Tomato? Has anyone grown this? A dwarf determinate, supposedly with some tolerance to Septoria and Early Blight. Tatiana appears to be out of stock, but Totally Tomatoes and Nichols are advertising it. -GG

November 30, 2016	#4
Greatgardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,124	...Did a bit of Googling on the breeder Alan Kapuler. Videos on YouTube. Interesting guy, for sure. Last edited by Greatgardens; November 30, 2016 at 04:23 PM.

December 3, 2016	#6
ShowmeDseeds Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Missouri Posts: 27	Good variety I grew it in southern Missouri, and never got around to taking three plants out of two-gallon containers. They produced good tasting salad tomatoes from early July until last week when we had our first hard freeze. I think Southern Exposure Seeds will post them online with other new listing on December 6.

November 29, 2016	#2
Ken B Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: central Virginia Posts: 243	We grew out a seed crop on our farm this year for the new SESE catalog. It's got Late Blight resistance, not Early Blight resistance -- Carol Deppe writes about it in her latest book, The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, she thinks it's going to be a useful tomato for Late Blight resistance since the resistance may come from the more unusual S. homboldtii that Alan Kapuler used to breed it. Anyway: we liked it, it's got good flavor (but not a top 10 tomato or anything), besides the disease resistance (lasted til frost for us), it's interesting for being a multi-floral dwarf tomato. (Has some variability in height, but overall still a dwarf!) A.P. Whaley Seed Co. is offering it wholesale this year, so a lot of other seed companies will be carrying it too!

December 1, 2016	#5
Starlight Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: AL Posts: 1,993	I grew it down here and had no problems with it except that for mine it put out hundreds of blooms all at once and I had tons of small tomatoes all at once that didn't ripen before frost hit down here. it may be labeled as a dwarf, but I would call it a mini dwarf. My plants didn't get more than a foot tall and about as wide. Would I grow it again, yes, because it held up to extreme heat, drought and humidity and had no disease problems. Next time, I will just start it alot earlier in the season as my plants kind of just sat there for awhile before they finally took off.