A List and Thoughts

[AlittleSalt]

Below you will find a list of tomato seeds that I have amassed during the past year or so. Less than two years ago, I could say that I had grown about 15 tomato varieties over 4 years time...and then came Tomatoville. (Sounds Halloween-ish)
I want to give back to Tomatoville by growing some varieties, saving seeds, sharing those seeds, and well, you know being a Tomatoville member.

The list is to show what I have available when I ask your opinions over the next couple of months. I think of all of you as friends that I would like to get to know. That is why I share so much with Tomatoville and you.

Complete Tomato List 2015

1884 Purple (MMMM Wish List)
A Grappoli D’Inverno (MMMM Wish List)
Abraham Lincoln
Ace 55 (MMMM Wish List)
Acme 1875 Commercial
Alston’s Everlasting
Amana Orange
Ambrosia, Blue
Ambrosia, Gold
Ambrosia, Red
Amethyst Cream
Amethyst Jewel
Amish Gold
Amish Paste
Anansas Noir
Antique Roman
Apelsin
Arkansas Traveler
Aunt Rubies’ German Green
Aurora
Aussie
Azoychka

Bali
Banana Legs
Barlow Jap
Bear Creek
Beefsteak
Belmonte
Big Beef OP or Hybrid (MMMM Wish List)
Big Boy (Hybrid)
Big German Pink
Big Rainbow
Bing Cherry
Black
Black and Brown Boar
Black Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Pear
Black Plum
Black Vernissage
Blue Beauty
Blush
Bobbie
Bradley
Brad's Black Heart
Brandy Boy (F-11)
Brandywine
Brandywine, Black
Brandywine, Cherry Pink
Brandywine, Cowlicks
Break of Day
Brownberry
Bulgarian Carrot
Bull's Heart
Bumblebee, Pink
Bumblebee, Purple
Bumblebee, Sunrise
Bumblebee, Bosque Blue

Captain Lucky
Carbon
Carbon Copy F7 (MMMM Wish List)
Casino Chips (MMMM Wish List)
Celebration (Hybrid)
Ceylon
Chadwick Cherry/Camp Joy (MMMM Wish List)
Chang Li
Chapman
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Lime
Cherokee Purple
Cherry Roma Grape
Chico III
Chukhloma Orange
Church
Clackamas Blueberry
Copia
Costoluto Florentino
Costoluto Genovese
Coyote
Cuor De Bue

Dancing With Smurfs
Daniel's Pink
Dark Tiger
Darth Mater
De Colgar (MMMM Wish List)
Dester
Dixie Golden Giant
Dr. Carolyn
Dwarf Red Heart

Earl's Faux
Early Girl (Hybrid)
Elgin Pink
Ernie's Plump
Esmeralda Golosina
Estonian Yellow Cherry
Eva Purple Ball
Evergreen

Filipino #2
Fuzzy Peach

Garrison
George O'Brien
German Johnson (MMMM Wish List)
German Red Strawberry
Giant Belgium
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Glacier
Golden Jubilee
Goliath
Goose Creek
Grandma Mary's
Great White
Green Drs. Frosted
Green Giant
Green Zebra
Gregory’s Altai
Grightmire's Pride
Guernsey Island

Happy Jack
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry
Huan U or Topaz (MMMM Wish List)
Haung Chieh
Hay's
Helen's German
Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blue
Heshpole
Hillbilly
Homestead
Homestead 24
Honey Bunch Red Grape
Hsiao His Hung Shih
Hungarian Heart

Ildi
Indian River (MMMM Wish List)
Indian Stripe
Indigo Apple (MMMM Wish List)
Indigo Blue berries
Indigo Cherry Drops (Coming in the mail/trade)
Indigo Rose
Indigo Sun (Hybrid) F2
Isis Brandy
Isis Candy
Isis, Starfire

Jan's
Jaune Flammee
Jelly Bean (Hybrid) F2
Jersey Devil
Joe Laurer's Pink German Egg
Juliet (Hybrid)

KBX
Kellogg's Breakfast
Kimberly (MMMM Wish List)
Kosovo
Krajova
Krasnodar Titans - long shelf

Large Red Cherry
Lemon Drop
Lemon Giant
Li Cun
Lime Green Salad
Limmony
Litchi
Livingston's Paragon Red 1870
Long Tom
Lucky Cross

Maiden's Fire
Maiden's Gold
Malkkhitovaya Shkatulka
Manalucie (MMMM Wish List)
Marglobe (MMMM Wish List)
Margret Curtain
Marianna's Peace
Marizolkorney
Matina
Matt's Wild Cherry (Cherry Sized)
Mayo's Delight
McKinley
Medovaya Kaplya
Mexico
Mexico Midget
Mischka (Drying)
Mom's Big Fat Red Grape
Moonglow
Moravsky Div
Mortgage Lifter (MMMM Wish List)
Mountain Princess

Neptune (MMMM Wish List)
New Big Dwarf
New Yorker

Ocharovanie
Old German
Opalka
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Oranje Van Goeijenbier
OSU Blue
Ozark Pink (MMMM Wish List)

P20
Patio
Paul Robeson
Peacevine
Pearson
Peche
Persimmon
Perth Pride
Piennolo Del Vesuvio
Pineapple
Pink Berkley Tie Die
Pink Bertoua
Pink Champagne
Pink Ping Pong
Pinky Blast
Plum Lemon
Polish Pastel
Porter
Porter's Pride
Prue
Purple Calabash
Purple Dog Creek

Quarter Century (MMMM Wish List)

Rainbow Cherry
Rebel Yell
Red Barn
Red Grape
Red Pear
Red Rocket
Reisetomate/Voyage (MMMM Wish List)
Resista
Riesentraube
Riesentraube, Yellow
Richardson
Rio Grande
Rocky
Roma
Romeo Big Paste
Rose Quartz
Rumi Banjan (In the mail)
Russian Cossack
Russian Mini Yellow
Russo Sicillian Togetta
Rutgers

Saljut Plum Mix
Sakharnyi Pudovichok
San Marzano
San Marzano Redorta
Sausage
Seek No Further Love Apple
Shady Lady (Hybrid)
Siberian
Siletz
Silvery Fir Tree
Sioux
Snow White
Sorrento
Spike
Sprite
Spudakee
Star Cross (Cross) F2
Strawberry Margarita
Stump of the World
Submarine Blush
Sugar Drop (Fermenting)
Sungold - 2 seeds
Super Italian Paste
Super Sweet 100 (Hybrid)
Sweet 100 (Hybrid)
Sweet Million (Hybrid)
Sweet Ozark Orange
Sweetie

Talavera Native
Ten Hung Tan Chieh
Tess's Landrace Current
Texas Pink
Texas Pink Currant
Texas Star
Texas Wild Cherry (MMMM Wish List)
Texwine
Tidwell German
Tommy Toe
Tom's Yellow Wonder
Tropic (MMMM Wish List)
Tumbling Tom Yellow (Hybrid)

Umberto Pear (MMMM Wish List)

Valencia
VHS Cherry F2 & (Not Ready Yet)
Violet Jasper
Virginia Sweet
Vorlon

Wes
White Queen
White Tomesol
Wild Card Blues
Work Release
World's Wonder

Yellow Centiflour Hypertress
Yellow Pear
Yellow Ping Pong (MMMM Wish List)
Yubileyny Tarasenko

Zap Cross (Cross) F2 & F3
Zapotec Pink Ribbed
Zogola

[Gardeneer]

Robert, that is some impressive collection.
Several years back I thought that tomatoes are just RED.
Didn't know what OP, Hybrid, Heirloom, determinate, indeterminate .... are Until i joined another message board/site. Right now , probably I have/grown close to 50 tomato varieties and have seeds at hand and still expanding. Some I will grow again some won't but for some reason I keep the seeds.

From your list I am tempted to try a few. Actually 2 of them are on my 2016 grow out list . Here they are:

INDIAN STRIPE ##
INDIGO CHERRY DROPS &&
NEW BIG DWARF &&
OLD GERMAN ##
--## always wanted to grow
-- && In my 2016 list

i can donate some (limited quantity) if needed ( maybe 30 varieties or so, some of which are already in your list)

Gardeneer

[IronPete]

Hi Salty; Glad to see I am not the only person who has gone a little haywire collecting. Great list!
Pete

[Ricky Shaw]

Like a seed bank. Go Salt!

[AlittleSalt]

Just 2 years back, I had read that starting tomatoes from seed was too expensive and took a heated greenhouse. At that time, gardening was just a hobby to keep me busy so I wouldn't dwell on the pain from the nerve diseases I have. The people here have been a very positive influence for me.

It feels good to be alive again.

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Just 2 years back, I had read that starting tomatoes from seed was too expensive and took a heated greenhouse. At that time, gardening was just a hobby to keep me busy so I wouldn't dwell on the pain from the nerve diseases I have. The people here have been a very positive influence for me.

It feels good to be alive again.

Yo Salt, are the red ones the seeds you desire? If so, I have some spare Ace-55 I can send your way. Save the slot for something else. PM w address and away we go.

[AlittleSalt]

Thanks Gerardo, the ones in red are the ones I put on my wish list for the MMMM swap. I'll let you know if I receive them in the swap or not. A lot of the ones on that list are older varieties of market and commercial types. Some are from the 1800s.

I was thinking of all the times I've read where people talk about that "Old fashion" tomato taste. Then I thought, "How are we going to know what old fashion tastes like without growing some and trying them?" Also, since they are commercial and market tomatoes - they probably keep a little longer as well. That's why there are varieties like Acme, Livingston's Paragon Red, Marglobe, and Quarter Century to name a few - on my list.

[Misfit]