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Originally Posted by nctomatoman
Howdy - I got Pike County Heirloom from Don Sparks long ago (thinking late 1980s/early 1990s) and grew it out once - it was a medium sized, regular pink tomato. Don was from Kentucky. I don't know the history of the variety beyond that.
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Craig, I found your listing and you noted you got the seed from Sparks in 1992 so I just riffled through my back SSE YEarbooks for the 1992 and yes he did list it in 1992 as
Pike County Kentucky Heirloom
He described it as 80 days, det, pink fruits, grown over 40 years in same family in Pike County,KY, 1989 seed.
Craig, I don't remember if you listed it as ind or det, but I'm not in the mood right now to go back and find the specific Yearbook where you listed it.
Patti, I didn't do a complete search, far from it, but haven't run across
anything nzmed Pike County Yellow. What was the source of your seeds? I ask b/c a mutation from pink to Yellow isn't that common and actually off hand I can't think of one, so maybe the Pike County Yellow is the result of some kind of natural cross pollination with selection tosomething yellow which would then not be actually the same as the original Pike County Kentucky Heirloom of a different color. What do you think?
I just did a Google search and see that some places are selling seed for what they call Pike COunty Yellow.
Gary Millwood is an expert on KY varieties and one of the links took me to a list he did at a message site which said:
(Pike County Kentucky Heirloom - Pink/Pike County)
So he has the correct name as did Sparks when he SSE listed it and Gary also has the right color, which is pink.
I have no idea where the yellow variant comes from and at the several sites I checked there was no information about that other than the variety being from Pike County, KY.
I just looked in the current 2010 SSE Yearbook and see that SSE itself is listing it as Pike County Kentucky Heirloom, citing Sparks and the color is pink.
There is no listing for Pike County Yellow. So I don't know where that really came from.