Mortgage Lifter, Estler's

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Mortgage Lifter, Estler's
Maturity midseason
Growth habit indet.
Leaf type regular
Fruit color pink
Fruit shape oblate, beefsteak
Fruit size large
Fruit type slicer
Variety type open-pollinated, family heirloom
Country USA
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Mortgage Lifter, Estler's - ripe fruit. 2008-09-09.

B.C KO T

80-85 days, indet., regular leaf plant with high yield of 10-16 oz pink fruit with excellent flavor.

Seed source:

Tatiana Kouchnareva, Anmore, BC (B.C KO T) 06 / Bill D. McAlevey, Massachusetts 05 / Chuck Wyatt of Baltimore, Maryland (MD WY C)

Year grown: 2005, 2008

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


IL LO N]

85 days, indet., regular leaf plant with good yield of 1-1.5 lb pink fruit with excellent flavor.

Seed source:

Bill Minkey of Darien, Wisconsin (WI MI B) 02

Year grown:

Location: Oblong, Illinois


TX GU R

80 days, indet., regular leaf, very good yield of excellent tasting 1-1.5 lb pink fruit.

Seed source:


Year grown:

Location: Pasadena, Texas


History

  • An Estler family heirloom that seems to have originated in Barboursville, West Virginia, in about 1922.
  • Seed for this variety was commercially introduced by Chuck Wyatt of Maryland.
  • This variety is said to be older than Mortgage Lifter, Radiator Charlie's, and goes back to 1922. Chuck Wyatt's seed came from Bob Estler, son of the William S. Estler (1884-1968) who originated the variety, seed of this variety was sent to Australia in the 1930s by the Estler's, likely the ancestor of the Australian variety Mortgage Lifter.
  • Transplants have been sold for many years by many West Virginia greenhouses since the 1930s.



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