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[strax]

Hello all,

looking for descriptions and or experience with/for the following varieties, if you also have a pic that would be great:

bruce's super steak
amish yellow
red heart yellow
russian yellow
russian annie

fuzzy peach - I'm assuming this is prolly the original 'garden peach' which is fuzzy

large pineapple- I'm assuming this is just 'pineapple'

thanks mucho,

jake

[carolyn137]

looking for descriptions and or experience with/for the following varieties, if you also have a pic that would be great:

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bruce's super steak
amish yellow
red heart yellow ( sounds a bit oxymorinic to me)
bear claw
russian yellow
russian annie

fuzzy peach - I'm assuming this is prolly the original 'garden peach' which is fuzzy

large pineapple- I'm assuming this is just 'pineapple':

Yes, and I remember answering this one for you at GW so went back to check that out and knowing you posted a link to GW in the Seed wanted Forum I found you.

I have no camera so can't help you with pictures, and of the ones you mention above I've only grown Garden Peach and Bear Claw and Russian Yellow, and don't consider any of those to be especially outstanding, in my opinion, but I'm me and you're you so you'll never know if they appeal to you until you grow them b'c there are jsut so darn many variables involved.

For the others I'd have to Google them or look in the SSE Yearbooks.

Have you tried Googling them yourself? it works best if you put the name of the variety in quotes so use "Russian Yellow" tomato.

One way to find pictures is to go to Google and select IMAGES and enter the variety name.

Another way is to go to those websites where lots of pictures are shown, so that might include Tomato Growers, Tomatofest, Victory Seeds, and Reinhard Kraft's site in Germany.

I hope that helps.

[PNW_D]

I too was wondering about Red Heart Yellow - my seed envelope (traded seed) notes source as (IL LO N 06) - so maybe a wee peak in the year book as time permits .....

[Suze]

Red Heart Yellow - IL LO N - HAS - 90 days, indet, regular leaf plant, 12-16 oz. yellow fruit w/pink marbling, very good flavor, high yield, from TX NO C 99.

(listed in 'other colors')

[PNW_D]

Thank you for checking Suze

[strax]

Thanks Carolyn and Suze.

these are the hold outs that I havent been able to find through google, ask.com, yahoo search, or seed sites. I try to be very thourough before posting this type of question.
I'm thinking that its a case of the 'telephone game' for most of them, if you've ever played that as a kid - the name gets changed a little here and there along the way, then the person at the end doesnt know what it was originally.

jake