do a google search and buy some NOW.

I am sure some resellers must still have some in stock.

Tomato Growers
PO Box 2337
Fort Myers, FL 33902

Toll Free Orders 1-888-478-7333
Toll Free Fax 1-888-768-3476
Customer Service 1-239-768-1119
http://www.tomatogrowers.com/index.html

This was the only company listed as a seller of Dona on one web site I found. I would talk to customer service and see if they have some in the back room. they might have some but might not be taking regular orders.

Other companies might have it and they might have purchased through this company. Let us know how you make out. This company also might know what the replacement seed name will be.

Where did you purchase your seeds in the past. They might have some in a back room.

Good Luck

I found a couple of sources for the F1 seeds and have linked to Reimer's Seeds who apparently are still selling it.

Kitchen Gardenseeds is sold out and I didn't spend more time with the Google links/

Renee Shepherd first introduced both Dona and Carmello to the US public, both supposedly being F1 hybrids, but there was some question about that from some folks who saved F2 seed and got pretty much the same variety do OP versions have been available for over 10 years now..

I grew both back in the early 90's, as the supposed F1 hybrids, but haven't grown them since.

So good luck with ordering them from Reimers/ ( smile)

Carolyn

Here is a link that might be useful: Dona F1 seeds

I couldn't put my hands on the 2007 TGS catalog but the 2006 does not list Dona F1.

Reimer's does list them.

Carolyn

WHOAH, I live in Fort Myers, dangould, I got to check them out!

Thanks for the help. Been there, done that, some of it.

Tomato Growers doesn't list it anymore. I did find Reimer's and I probably should order anyway/ (smile). I didn't buy in 2006 or 2007 and I suppose that's why it snuck up on me. The phone call/back room idea is a very good one and I think I should follow it.

I did know part of the story about Renee Shepherd but was unaware of the possibility that it could have been OP anyway. The EU passed some very strange and very unfair laws with respect to seeds, I believe in the 90's and so that may be part of the reason. I have Carmello too and it is good but I think Dona has the edge.

The last ones I had were from John Scheepers. I'll give them a call.

If anyone knows of other OP (or F1) sources, please tell me.

If I can turn up any "reliable" F1 seeds, I would like to take a crack at dehybridizing/stabilizing even if that has been done before. I did see (carolyn) some instructions on doing that which involved a bit of backcrossing but can't seem to find it again.

Again, thanks for the help. Anyone else?

The last ones I had were from John Scheepers. I'll give them a call.

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No need to call them b'c their non-bulb seeds are called kitchen garden Seeds and I mentioned above that they are sold out and that's per their current website via Google.

(If anyone knows of other OP (or F1) sources, please tell me.)

You said you wanted the F1 hybrid seed and above I linked to Reimer's who are selling the Dona F1 seed so won't that satisfy your needs? ( smile)

As I said above, I didn 't check out ALL the links when I entered... Dona F1 tomato seed... at Google, I just looked for the links that I new were retail sources of seed. But you can do the same Google search and see if their are retail sources other than Reimer's that interest you.

Hope this helps.

Carolyn

Well, I've done all that & spent beaucoup hours on the web looking for DONA. I did see the notation at Scheepers as well but one of the suggestions was to call anyway and see if there is just a little bit lying around that they wouldn't advertise. Have no idea how successful that would be, probably not at all. I guess it depends on how fast they are to change their website and what their policies are. Have noticed Reimer's and will order some. Not sure what I would get - it seems they don't have a very good reputation but it's worth a try. I did find someone in UK selling 5 seeds for 2 pounds and maybe I'll try that. That's an odd one too because they have lots of varieties and the price is the same for all of them. Are seeds that much more expensive in Old Blighty? Also, there is a French website listing hundreds of cultivars, including Dona OP but with no info on where to get it. And I noticed there that whereas Dona F1 was shown a few weeks ago, it is now gone.

I checked a few sites I know of that aren't scanned by Google and Tomatofest.com carries the OP version of Dona.

Carolyn

I would be happy to send you 10 seeds of Dona OP . My email address is snowbird007@shaw.ca

if you would like to email me and we could discuss the details of where I should send them.

Diana