1884 Purple

From Tatiana's TOMATOBase

1884 Purple
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	black
Fruit shape	beefsteak
Fruit size	large
Fruit type

B.C KO T

77 days, indet., regular leaf plant with excellent yield of large light purple/dark pink beefsteak fruits with light green shoulders, 8-20 oz, very meaty, juicy, sweet rich outstanding flavor, creamy flesh, very few seeds, bottom half of the fruit is almost seedless, some radial cracking.

Original Seed Source:

Jeff Casey, AB 06 / TX GU R (Michael Gunn, Texas)

Year: 2006

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)

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TX AN S

75-80 days, indet., regular leaf plant with average yield of lovely purple-pink beefsteak fruits, sometimes with apple green shoulders, 12-24 oz, outstanding flavor.

Source

B.C KO T 07 / Jeff Casey, AB 06 / TX GU R

Year: 2008

Location: Bastrop, Texas

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History

• Jeff Casey of Alberta, Canada received the seeds for "1884" tomato from Michael Gunn of Pasadena, Texas in 2005, and shared with Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T) in Dec 2005. Both Jeff and Tatiana grew it in 2006 and obtained large dark black-purple fruits which, in Tatiana's opinion, were better than the original 1884. Tatiana named it "1884 Purple" to indicate the fruit color difference compared to 1884. Jeff later suggested an alternative name - "Purple Doughnut", which was a better name, unfortunately Tatiana had already listed this variety in the SSE Yearbook as "1884 Purple", and received several SSE requests for the seeds in 2007.

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Related varieties:

• 1884 (potential parent)

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Also known as

• Purple Doughnut

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors (Catalog)	Seed Savers Yearbook (listings)
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds
2009	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds	5
2008	.	3
2007	.	1

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