Okay, dumb question. What is a potato leafed tomato plant and why should I care?


Tyler

In article , "Tyler Hopper"
wrote:

Okay, dumb question. What is a potato leafed tomato plant and why should
I care?


Tyler


Some heirloom tomatos leaves look like potato leaves. They also have a
reasonable amount of disease resistance. In general it is a good
indicator that the plant is likely to be heirloom and an open pollinated
variety.

For example Brandywine (reputedly benchmark for flavor, but very stingy
with yield) is a potato leaved plant. So if you bought Brandywine and its
leaves looked like any other plant its likely that it was
misnamed/crossed. With Brandywine in fact there are many sources, but
only a few a good tasting ones. You should look explicitely for somebody
who says they are selling the Quisenberry/Suduth strain. So potato leaves
by themselves do not mean much.

For a history of how hairy it is to track down the various permutations of
this one variety see:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/informat...randywine.html


Roland

In article , "Tyler Hopper"
wrote:

Okay, dumb question. What is a potato leafed tomato plant and why should
I care?


Tyler


Some heirloom tomatos leaves look like potato leaves. They also have a
reasonable amount of disease resistance. In general it is a good
indicator that the plant is likely to be heirloom and an open pollinated
variety.

For example Brandywine (reputedly benchmark for flavor, but very stingy
with yield) is a potato leaved plant. So if you bought Brandywine and its
leaves looked like any other plant its likely that it was
misnamed/crossed. With Brandywine in fact there are many sources, but
only a few a good tasting ones. You should look explicitely for somebody
who says they are selling the Quisenberry/Suduth strain. So potato leaves
by themselves do not mean much.

For a history of how hairy it is to track down the various permutations of
this one variety see:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/informat...randywine.html


Roland