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Old December 26, 2009   #40
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One small addition to Ludmilla's Pink Heart: It is NOT from Germany, but from Kazachstan and was brought to Germany in the 1970th. In that time, many people with German roots emigrated from former Soviet Union to Germany and Ludmilla was one of them. She took those seeds and others with her and later on, got more varieties from her family and friends (left in Kazachstan). This is what Reinhard Kraft told me.
Both "Ludmillas" - Pink Heart and Red Plum showed high yields (at least for me).
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Good catch Clara b'c I wass initially confused as well as to whether Ludmilla had acquired the three varieties, the pink heart, the red plum and now the large yellow, while living in Germany or brought them from Kazachstan and e-mailed him and he said she had brought them with her from Kazachstan.

So Adam, you might want to fix both Ludmilla's Red Plum and also Ludmilla's PInk Heart to reflect that those two varieties were originally form Kazachstan and are not German heirlooms.
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