mildew resistant tomato varieties?

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rassbach Berkeley, CA(Zone 10a) Dec 29, 2023

I live in Berkeley, CA, with cool humid summers. (July average high temp is 70 degrees, with 75% humidity.) During the last few years, my tomato plants have been slammed with powdery mildew, something I'd never seen on them for the first many years of growing them.Maybe it's climate change, or a new mildew genotype.
I mostly grow heirlooms, but even locally bulletproof hybrids like Early Girl get sick.
Last year, a Sprite cherry tom was fine, right next to another plant that had the worst mildew. So my question: what tomato varieties have mildew resistance?
Thanks!

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ZilyZily Castro Valley, CA Dec 30, 2023

I have grown so many kinds of tomatoes in Fremont with no mildew. Must be sunnier than Berkeley.

I googled 'mildew resistant tomatoes for the Bay Area' then 'mildew resistant tomatoes for Berkeley' and up came a lot of articles. Some had great titles from the SF Chronicle. If you get the Chronicle, I bet they are worth reading.

A 2005 thread from here.
Best Tomatoes for SF Bay area??
https://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/522164/#b

https://howorchidsrebloom.com/veggies-herbs-fruit-trees-and-other-edibles/tomato-varieties-for-coastal-gardens/
and a list
https://howorchidsrebloom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Great-tomato-varieties-for-coastal-gardens.pdf

Odd that most articles do not even mention powdery mildew but mention much worse tomato diseases.

Here is a long list with what specific tomatoes are resistant too. Some list 'leaf mold.'
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/disease-resistant-vegetable-varieties/disease-resistant-tomato-varieties/
At end, has varieties.
https://sloatgardens.com/webinar-tomato-growing-101/

Powdery Mildew
August 11, 2022
https://alamedabackyardgrowers.org/powdery-mildew/

Hopefully someone from Berkeley will stop by.

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