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Originally Posted by danielnc84
Okay I know Big Zac will not stay true. is there anything i can do to get this plant to try to breed true? I have 3 plants that are all beside each other they havnt started to bloom yet but I would like to save some seeds and do some testing with them. I dont mind this process taking 5 to 10 seasons of growing to get my desired results which is a decent sized 3 pounds plus sized tomato. any thoughts or help would be appreciated!
Sincerely
Daniel Fries
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Daniel,
I concentrate fully on growing tomatoes for size competition. It's the only thing I do now.
The Big Zac Hybrid was created by Minnie Zaccaria of Long Branch New Jersey.
Minnie has won the New Jersey Tomato Championship seven times .
Her Big Zac hybrid won the 1997 Championship for her with a monster 6.16 pound specimen.
Big Zac is a cross between a red and pink beefsteak which is known only to her.
She sold the rights to Totally Tomatoes
http://www.totallytomato.com/ to be the official retail outlet for the Big Zac.
Since it's inception the Big Zac has been grown out from it's original source many many times with successful results.
Most growers consider the Big Zac strain fairly stable now.
Last year was my rookie year at growing giants where I reached my personal best of 2.86 LBS with a Big Zac.
I saved the seeds from that tomato and have four Big Zac plants amongst my other strains I'm growing this season to reach my 2012 goal of the four pound mark.
My lineup this year is approx 18 plants all in which are strains that grow giants.
I highly recommend the book "" Giant Tomatoes "" written by Dr. Marv Meisner which will give you invaluable information needed to grow giants from the Big Zac and the many other types of tomatoes with potential to grow a heavyweight.
A link to Amazon for the book is here;
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Tomatoes.../dp/0975515314
My particular Big Zac linage began with seeds from Totally tomatoes.
Since this is season two of growing that linage it is my own particular F-2.
It is offically called 2.86 Diehl-2012 and can be found here;
http://tomato.giantstogrow.com/Tomat...s.php?PN=diehl
This website that I listed above is a valuable tool for you to see linage of different types of tomato lines and their subsequent offspring.