2007-08 Tomato Seed Round Robin

I just planted my tomato seeds yesterday! Thank you all for the wonderful contributions. Can't wait to taste all my new varieties this year!

Oh, ep - what all did you sow? I personally can't stand it any longer and will be starting some this weekend, too!

I planted Zapotec last year and had a huge plant with the biggest blossom flowers I have ever seen on a tomato plant. And there were many flowers. But, not one tomato. I even tried blossom set spray and hand polinating but with no success. Since I only had one plant and no seeds I don't really know if this is typicl of the variety or if I had a sterile plant for some reason. I would love to know if others have experienced this.

The RR arrived yesterday; I stayed up half the night going through them all. Whew!

INVENTORY 118 VARIETIES
Ace (SEEQ)
Arkansas Traveler (Critter)
Austin Red Pear (C Moxin)
Basil (Critter) 3 pks
Beefsteak (Pupil)
Big Mama hybrid (Critter)
Black Plum (zz)
Bradley (Critter)
Brown Berry (SEQ)
Cerise (3/4" cherry( (zz)
Cherokee Chocolate (Defoe)
Cherokee Purple (Defoe)
Costoluto Genovese (zz)
Cupid Hybrid (SEQ)
Dafel F1 (SEQ)
DeBareo Gold (SEQ)
Doublerich (SEQ)
Dr Carolyn (C Moxin)
Dr. Carolyn (C Hook)
Fargo Yellow Pear (SEQ)
Florida Petite (C Moxin)
Gardener's Delight (C Hook)
Gardener's Delight (Defoe)
Gartenperle (Cmoxin)
German Queen (Critter)
German Red Strawberry (Critter)
Golden Egg (paste) (zz)
Green Zebra (Melissa)
Ground Cherry (vgmky)
Hanging Basket (Critter)
Hawaiian (cherry) (zz)
Hog Heart (paste) (Critter)
Isis Candy (zz)
Jaune Flamme (Critter)
Jubilee (Critter)
LaRossa Hybrid (SEQ)
Marglobe (ZZ)
Matina (zz)
Matt's Wild Cherry (SEQ)
Medford (SEQ)
Mexican Cocktail (SEQ)
Micro-Tom (C Moxin)
Mortgage Lifter (SEQ)
New Big Dwarf (Critter)
Orange Banana (zz)
Orange King (C Moxin)
Pasture Cherry (vgmky)
Patio Hybrid (Critter)
Patio Princess (C Moxin)
Peron Sprayless (San P)
Persimmon (C Hook)
Pineapple (Beef S) (Critter)
Pineapple (Beef S) (Defoe)
Polish Egg(zz)
Polish Linguisa (Critter)
Pomodoro Carnoso Italiano (Critter)
Principe Borghese (zz)
Red Lightning (C Moxin)
Red Zebra (C Moxin)
Rio Grande (Red Plum) (Critter)
Roman Candle (Banana Legs)(zz)
Rose de Berne (C Hook) & (Critter)
Rutger's (zz)
San Marzano (Melissa)
Sara's Galapagos (vgmky)
Saucey (zz)
Sherrill (C Hook)
Silvery Fir Tree (SEQ) & (Critter)
Sioux (C Hook)
Small Fry (C Moxin)
Snow White Cherry (SEQ)
Sprite (grape) (Critter)
Sprite x Elfin (Critter)
Stupice (Critter)
Sugary (Pupil)
Supersweet 100 F1 (Critter)
Sweet Baby Girl (SEQ)
Tigerella (Mr. Stripey) (Pupil) & (Critter)
Tiny Tim (C Moxin)
Tiny Tim (Essential P)
Totem (C Moxin)
Tumbling Tom (Critter)
Valley Girl (vgmky)
Violaceum Krypni-Rozo (SEQ)
Viva Italia (zz)
Wapsicon Peach (San P)
White Queen (Melissa)
Wild Cherry (Critter)
Wisconsin 55 (Critter)
Wonder Light (zz)
Wood's Famous Brimmer (C Hook)
Yellow Brandywine (Critter)
Yellow Brandywine (zz)
Yellow Perfection (C Moxin)

Plus I put in 19 varieties (43 packets):

Azoychka -1
Better Bush -1
Black From Tula-2
Brandy Boy - 2
Brandywine Sudduth-2
Copia -2
Delicious -1
Gold Medal -2
Green Zebra -2
Longkeeper -2
Mr. Stripey -2
Orange King -2
Orange Strawberry -2
Pineapple -2
Red Lightning -4
Striped Cavern -2
Stupice -2
Sun Sugar -4
Wapsipinicon Peach -6

Melissa,
Whatever are you going to do with all these?! I had to slap my hands over the 14 packets I took out! Plus I bought a bunch from Pinetree Gardens this year. I need my head examined.

Thank you for a very successful, well organized RR. It will go out to you in today's mail. Will post confirmation when I return from the PO.

Arlene

PS edited beefstead to beafsteak . . duh . . .

This message was edited Mar 5, 2008 9:50 AM

Thanks guys for making this fun!

This message was edited Mar 6, 2008 2:12 PM

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This message was edited Mar 6, 2008 2:11 PM

Guess I better get started this week end; last year I didn't start until the end of March and they did ok but I would like them to be a little sturdier than that.

Wow, what a selection. I'm surprised to see that none of the packs I put in the Robin a month ago are still in there. A couple of the same varieties are there, but not the packs I sent. That's good - apparently I had some tomatoes that folks wanted.

But those who received the Robin before I did and those at the very end didn't get a chance at the ones I included. No problem - I've still got extra seeds from 2007 of those 10 tomatoes, so if you'd like some just send me a Dmail.

Brandywine Red
Cherokee Purple
Dr. Carolyn Pink
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Ethel Watkins’ Best
Eva Purple Ball
German Red Strawberry
Red Zebra
Wins All
Yoder’s German Yellow

Wow, Melissa -- not only is that a lot of tomato seedlings, but you start early! I don't plant out until mid-May here, so I start tomatoes next week.

I would love to get in on this robin if anyone does one next year.

We'll all be REAL nice to Melissa and maybe she'll do a repeat performance.

I prefer to plant out mid april if I can at all. Late april at the latest. Plus about 20 will go in wow's in late March. I prefer my plants to be on the large side when they go in the ground, they just do better for me that way. I've tried (last year) starting them later, and I just don't get the production I do if I start earlier.

Right now I'm waiting on hubby to decide if he wants to do my hoophouse like I want it, or if we're buying a greenhouse from Harbor Freight, otherwise I'd have already had seedlings transplanted into their peat pots. :) I have a hoophouse, but, it's not going to be big enough with the flowers I've started this year as well as cuttings I have coming in, so I'm not transplanting until my new one is up and functional.

Confirmation Number: 0305 0830 0000 6386 3906

The mailman was very late due to the storm but DID pick up the package. It's on it's way to you Melissa!

I just got back from San Antonio and 80 degree weather!!!. It was great to see flowers in bloom. And bare ground.
I am ready to garden, but we still have 3 feet of snow on the ground, and I have all these tomato seeds.....
I am offering up the same deal as everyone else who has posted the last few days. If you want to try some of the varieties I traded, Dmail me. Or I may have enough of others you may be looking for last minute, just ask.
I can split anything I traded since I don't usually plant more than 4 of a first-time trial tomato.
If I don't share I will feel like Smeagol...my precious, my precious.... LOL

Ditto!

I've got a couple of friends who will be hitting up my "stash" for seeds also, so between us we'll be able to trial more varieties than I can possibly fit into my little garden. :-)

Same here; if there is anything I have . . . you want. Just let me know. You guys are Great!

Just to clarify. :)

If anyone who participated in the Robin wanted any of those seeds------it wasn't an offer to DG at large. I did that over in the tomato forum, and that offer is closed now too..

I've gotten several dmails from folks who weren't in the robin requesting seeds--sorry folks.


What seeds I don't pass on, I'll use to start a fall robin perhaps, or I might just wait and plant those first next year, who knows.

Ah. Yes. Same here. I've only got a few extra packets of some of the ones I put in and may just have 3 seeds to spare of other varieties... but for folks in this robin I'll take a run through my stash if there's anything you're looking for. People I trade with regularly know they've got a standing offer to Dmail me, too. :-)

I've got so many varieties to plant, I'm scared! I may kill myself tending to them all but I'm up for the challenge!

Thanks again, everyone. This was so fun!

Melissa, Thank You for coordinating this Round Robin. Comments from all participants indicates that folks really had fun with it.
As for you, I know you are going to have a large number of varieties growing, but leave a few spots for some "special" tomatoes I will reserve for you at the CHOPTAG Plant Exchange.
I just mailed my friend and mentor, Merlyn Niedens, some new varieties he plans to grow this spring to introduce in the new 2009 catalogs. He introduced my "Granny Cantrell's" German Tomato in 2007, Hazelfield Farm Red and Atkinson this year 2008. He grew several other last season he liked very much and plans to include those with some new grow outs at the end of the season
I hope everyone has a great growing season and are blessed with lots of tomatoes!
Gary

Yeah, well - it's all you guys' fault.

We had a nice day yesterday, and I spent the afternoon taking out fence, pulling fence posts and moving railroad ties with the tractor. I'm enlarging my vegetable garden from 36' x 36' to 36' x 54'. The reason - all these great tomato varieties I've started indoors.

I sure enjoyed working outdoors again after such a long winter, and I got a lot done. The good weather didn't last, though - we're supposed to get snow again tonight.

I'm having a great time with this actually. So many interesting tomatoes, so little time. lol

This is truly funny . . . or NOT

Mailman picked up the package for sure out of my mailbox.

Yesterday he left me my envelope with my change in it.

There was a blue official sticker on it:

IMPORTANT CUSTOMER INFORMATION
We regret that your mail was not collected or is being returned to you due to heightened security requirements. All mail that bears postage stamps and weighs more than 13 ounces MUST be taken "by the customer" to a retail service associate at a Post Office.
July 2007

Then there was a handwritten note on my envelope from my mailman.
"Package was over 13 oz. I MAILED OUT FOR YOU ANYHOW- Over 13 ounces is important! Over 13 ounces must be taken by customer unless you use electronic postage"

Whew! What a sweetie. Guess we will continue to give him a Christmas gift every year.

Melissa,
It should be there soon.

(By the way, we are snowed in again this morning and it is too cold to go out and use the snowblower. Will this ever quit?)

260 varieties passed through our hands! May have been 261 as there was one listed as a cherry tomato with the same name as one of my big bicolor beefsteaks.

1884
Abe Lincoln
Ace
Alleghany Sunset
Allicante
Amana Orange
Amish Paste
Amy's Sugar Gem
Ananas Noir
Arkansas Traveler
Austin Red Pear
Australian Giant Oxheart
Azoychka
Beauty King
Beaverlodge Slicer
Beaver's Yellow Pear
Beefsteak
Berkley Tie Die
Better Bush
Big Mama hybrid
Black Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Heart
Black Krim
Black Mountain Pink
Black Pear
Black Plum
Black Prince
Bloody Butcher
Box Car Willie
Bradley
Brad's Black Heart
Brandy Boy
Brandywine Red
Brandywine Sudduth
Brandywine-Yellow
Brown Berry
Bulgarian #7
Burpee's Steak Sandwich
Campari
Carbon
Carmello
Cerise
Cerise Orange
Chadwick Cherry
Cherokee Choclate
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Red
Clear Early Pink
Copia
Cosmonaut Volkov
Costoluo Genovese
Coyote
Cream Sausage
Cupid Hybrid
Dad's Sunset
Dafel F1
DeBareo Gold
Delicious
Doublerich
Dr. Carolyn
Dr. Carolyn Pink
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Durzba
Early Cascade
Ethel Watkin's Best
Eva Purple Ball
Evans Purple Pear
Evergreen
Fargo Yellow Pear
Federle
Fence Row
Ferris Wheel
Flame (Hillbilly)
Florida Petite
Fox Cherry
French Red Cherry
Gardener's Delight
Gary O'Sena
Gartenperle
German Johnson
German Pink
German Queen
German Red Strawberry
Giant Belgium
Giant Syrian
Glacier
Gold Medal
Golden Delight
Golden Egg
Golden Grape
Grandpa's Cock's Plume
Green Grape
Great White
Green Sausage
Green Zebra
Ground Cherry
Haley's Purple Comet
Hanging Basket
Hard Rock
Hawaiian
Hazelfieldfarm Red
Hezou
Hog Heart (paste)
Imur Prior Beta
Isis Candy
Italian Sweet
Japanese black Trieffle
Jaune Flammee
Jelly Bean Hybrid
John’s Huge Greek Red
Jubilee
Kosovo
Large Pink Bulgarian
LaRossa Hybrid
Legend
Lenny & Gracie's
Lilac Giant
Livingston's Giant Oxheart
Long Keeper
Lumpy Red
Manitoba
Marglobe
Marianna's Peace
Marizol gold
Marvel
Matina
Matt's Wild Cherry
Medford
Mexican Cocktail
Millionaire
Missouri Love Apple
Momotaro
Montserrat
Mortgage Lifter
Moscow
Moskvich
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Houseworth
MS-5 Cherry
Muchamiel
Mule Team
Napoli
New Big Dwarf
Nyagous
Old Brooks
Old German Pink
Olga Round Yellow Chicken
Omar's Lebanese
Opalka
Orange Banana
Orange King
Orange Strawberry
Oregon Spring
Ox Heart
Ox Heart - Medford
Pasture Cherry
Patio Hybrid
Patio Princess
Paul Robeson
Peron Sprayless
Persimmon
Pineapple
Pink Climber
Pink Sweet
Pink Thai Egg
Plum Lemon
Polish Egg
Polish Linguisa
Pomodoro Carnoso Italiano
Ponderosa Red
Pork Chop
Porter
Potato Top
Principe Borghese
Prudens Purple
Purple Calabash
Purple Hillbilly
Purple Russian
Purple Smudge
Red Lightning
Red Rose
Red Siberian
Red Zebra
Rio Grande
Roman Candle (Banana Legs)
Rose
Rose Beauty
Rose Climber
Rose de Berne
Rouge D'Irak
Russian Bogatyr
Rutger's
Rutger's Select
San Marzano
Sara's Galapagos
Saucey
Sherrill
Sheyenne
Siletz
Silvery Fir Tree
Sioux
Skorospelka
Small Fry
Snow White Cherry
Snowberry
Soldaki
Southern Nights
Speckled Peach
Spoon
Sprite (grape)
Sprite x Elfin
St. Pierre
Steak Sandwich
Stick
Stiletz
Striped Cavern
Striped German
Stump of the World
Stupice
Sugar Sweetie
Sugary Hybrid
Sun Sugar
Sungold F4 generation seeds
Sunray
Supersweet 100 F1
Sweet Baby Girl
Sweet Million
T.C. Jones
Tamina
Thai Pink Egg
Thessaloniki
Three Sisters
Tiger Striped
Tigerella (Mr. Stripey)
Tiger-Like Russian Heirloom
Tiger-Striped
Tiny Tim
Tobolsk
Tom’s Large Red Cherry
Tumbling Tom
Tyborowski Plum
Valena Pink
Valiant
Valley Girl
Violaceum Krypni-Rozo
Viva Italia
Wapsipinicon Peach
Weeping Charley
White Queen
Wild Cherry
Wins All
Wisconsin 55
Wonder Light
Wood's Famous Brimmer
Yellow Cherry
Yellow Pear
Yellow Perfection
Yoder's German Yellow
Zapotec

And I believe Melissa got back about 118 varieties all of which were from all of you except 2-3 packs of her originals. She's gonna be busy with that box!

This message was edited Mar 8, 2008 11:58 AM

How very cool of you to do that, Arlene! Imagine - we've all "had our way" with that Robin, and she's still full to brimmin' with a bounty of good stuff!

'Twas a pleasure indeed!

Wow, that's a bunch of varieties. I sure got some good ones out of the Robin, thanks to those who put 'em in.

You can count it as one less, though, Arlene. Brandywine Red and Red Brandywine are the same 'mater.

Thanks for pointing that out; I had been keeping a list in Excel and had it alphabetize so I didn't catch that duplication. Anyone else let me know of any omissions, mispelling or mislabeling. I like statistics so it was fun to just see how many varieties went through. Now I'm sorry I didn't track how many "actual" packets went through. I know I didn't list the extras which that would have increased # of varieties as well.

So if anyone kept track of the extras Dmail me and I will update the list more accurately.

Hi Arlene,

I'm not sure if you were including mine or not because they were put in near the end. Maybe you are not counting those. For example, I remember I put in Yellow Perfection, Green Grape, Small Fry, Patio Princess & Florida Petite. I can't remember all the ones I put in. A bunch of them are in your list from a few days back after you had the robin, but they're not on your second list...

Maybe I'm confused about what is supposed to be on the list! I'm usually kinda confused to begin with!

Claire

Thanks, Claire,

I hope to get this right; added those 5 and maybe Melissa can double check my list when she has time.

Found 2 more of yours from my other list and added:
Austin Red Pear and Gartenperle

So that puts us at 259 or possibly 260

Thai Pink Egg was in there as well as in extras too.

I think I had transposed Pink and thai

I'll add it; no RR yet?

No, we have "blizzard" conditions.... the road isn't clean, so not sure if we'll get mail or not today. We have about 14 inches of snow on the ground... the most my kid have ever seen in their lives... they're 19, 17 and 10, and out playing in it like toddlers. :)

LOL! Very cool! We are having monsoons. Which, of course, have melted ALL the snow, so we have a real soupy mess out there. I live on a pretty steep hill, and I'm pretty sure I could take my kayak out there and run the rapids...

Label/Receipt Number: 0305 0830 0000 6386 3906
Status: Arrival at Unit

Your item arrived at 9:19 AM on March 8, 2008 in FELICITY, OH 45120.

Hooray!!!

Has anybody else noticed how long this thread has become? It's slow to load, even with dial-up... maybe Melissa will start us a new thread for follow-up chat as we grow out our seeds...

:-)

Hey, at least it's at the post office, now if they just bring it out today.

I'll start a new thread Jill. I'm inclined NOT to start it in this forum though.... any suggestions on which one to start it in?

How about the tomato forum? :-)

I was thinking the same thing....

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/822362/

The fall round robin and fall swap/exchange are posted.

Traditional Robin:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/909763/

Tomato Seed SWAP:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/909764/