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Originally Posted by klemmabyna
not sure what this means:
From http://www.gardenhoard.com/tomato-se...ple-seeds.html
An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety from Tennessee. Cherokee Purple has a beautiful deep dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and large sized fruit. Very attractive sliced on a plate. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. Plants produce large vines that yield 6-16 oz. beefsteaks.
from: http://www.rareseeds.com/cherokee-purple-tomato/
80 days. An old Cherokee Indian heirloom, pre-1890 variety; beautiful deep dusky purple-pink color, superb sweet flavor, and very large sized fruit. Try this one for real old-time tomato flavor. My favorite dark tomato! |
It means that both are wrong with the dating of it. Recent DNA analysis of alleles shows that Cherokee Purple was not 100 yo when john Green sent the seeds to Craig LeHoullier.
Here's the link that shows that>
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...529042.html?13
Go down to the April 21 post by Mulio
And it also means that once again, someone is copying text from another vendor.
I just looked at the site and got to page 2 of tomatoes and I can also tell you that the site owner has my book b/c words/phrases I see there are from my book as well as Amy Goldmans book since when I got to Opalka, which I introduced what I saw was aka Polish Torpedo and only does it say that in her book, a baddie by one of her paid researchers.
I tried to get to Tania's site to pull up the info about Donskoi but her site is down, probably due to the wicked weather in her area.Looking in my 2014 SSE Yearbook all who listed it got it from Tania.
A Google search suggests that there are probably other sources for this variety, but sonce you've got one already, go for it.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=donskoi+tomato
Carolyn