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TSWV Resistant Indeterminant Tomatoes??

16 years ago

My garden has been plagued by TSWV for the past several years. This year I planted all TSWV resistant tomato plants and have had a TSWV disease free garden. I planted 6 TSWV resistant varieties, but only 2 (Bolseno and Super Cromo F1) were indeterminate. Is anyone aware of other Indeterminate TSWV varieties and the seed companies which carry them? I am beginning to select my seeds now.

Yhanks,

Dick

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  • 16 years ago

    Dick, I've grown two indeterminates that are said to be TSWV resistant - Bolseno (Johnny's Selected Seeds) and Sophia (Totally Tomatoes).

    Bolseno was crazy rampant and hugely productive with baseball size, juicy, tart, red fruit with five, open seed locules, plenty of gel and made great canners or fresh salad tomatoes. A bit too juicy for sandwiches, in my opinion. Bolseno tore down 6 foot wooden stakes and overgrew six foot wire cages. Awesome tomato.

    I grew Sophia in a sprawl because I ran out of raised bed space and had a couple of plants and wanted to look at the fruit. Amazingly, Sophia tomatoes laid on the ground without a single one rotting. They are firmer and denser than Bolseno but not as flavorful or tart. The tomatoes generally are just a bit but not much larger than Bolseno on average and have slightly prettier appearance with faintly scalloped, green shoulders typical of Italian tomatoes. With slightly heavier and denser walls and interior structure, Sophia lasted longer on the vine and on the counter, but like I said, were a bit milder flavored.

    Both vines were extremely vigorous and only slightly affected by Septoria in my location. Bolseno was more spotted with Septoria than Sophia but outgrew it when the weather dried off. Neither variety contracted Early Blight even though the Bolseno vines neighbored and were in direct contact with plants that had some Early Blight. That surprised me.

    I don't have TSWV at my location so cannot speak to that issue.

    I've grown a few determinate TSWV-res varieties and thought Mountain Glory and Top Gun were the two large slicers with acceptable flavor, Top Gun being the more heat tolerant of those two. Top Gun appears to be hard to find this year and some seed companies are recommending Talladega as a TSWV-res/heat tolerant substitute. Never grown that one.

    This year I grew Plum Regal, a determinate with a highly concentrated 1st set and a small but concentrated second set of tasty plum saladette or "roma" tomatoes with TSWV resistance from the same breeding program as the Mountain series. Very nice in salads. I didn't eat any cooked but I imagine they would be very nice roasted. I dried some and they were right tasty that way.

    Amelia enjoys a great reputation as a TSWV-res. determinate but apparently is more susceptible to Septoria as it went down fast at my location compared to the others I mentioned and grew in the same bed.

    But you were asking about indeterminate TSWV-res varieties and I found Bolseno all 'round hard to beat. And Sophia was very pretty and probably just the ticket for someone who would like a salad/sandwich type kitchen garden tomato or market tomato along the lines of Jet Star but not as flavorful as say Big Beef.

  • 16 years ago

    Bill, I wish the catalog companies would hire you to write tomato descriptions for them! You give the best and most thorough descriptions of any I've read. You do us all a good service. I make plenty of decisions based on your experience and tastes and I'm never disappointed. You have been a very generous seed trader as well. On this Thanksgiving Day I just wanted to thank you for everything...:)