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Old October 26, 2011   #4
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Kurt, Syngenta first introduced Kumato in Australia and the UK many years ago , just to add to the post by Suze and Terry's blog, so we first heard of it here from our tomato friends in those countries.

Some say it is unstable when grown out from the assumed F1 which is why you indicated two fruit forms and others maintain that it's an OP masking as an F1.

As has been indicated by others and I agree, the history that Syngenta gave was, IMO, not only ridiculous but not true.

All to say that I read and post at several message sites and while there was initial interest in it, as Suze mentioned, it's kind of wafted off into obscurity these days. I asked someone to send me some fruits, I thought it tasted lousy, to be honest, never saved any seeds and consider it a novelty variety and a triumph of PR for Syngenta.
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