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Turkey
Country Turkey  +
Description Indet., potato leaf. Large pink beefsteak fruits, 8-16 oz. Excellent sweet flavor. Flavor is more balanced at the beginning of the season, and gets sweeter in hot weather. (''15 seeds / packet'')
Fruit color pink  +
Fruit shape oblate  +
Fruit size large  +
Fruit type slicer  +
Growth habit indet.  +
History * There are several PI accessions called ' * There are several PI accessions called 'Turkey' listed in the SSE Yearbooks. Looks like there was a seed mix up several years ago. The correct one is potato leaf. * First offered in the Seed Savers 1998 Yearbook by Seed Savers Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa (IA SSE HF), seeds from Wade Ray Wofford of Niland, California (CA WO W). * SSE TOMATO 2530. * From Turkey. * Seeds for this variety were initially donated by a Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) member, Wade Wofford of California who died in 2006, to the SSE's Heritage Farm some time between 1988 and 1998. Wade obtained the variety through a chain of seed-passing involving members. Wade noted that "A son of the family [through which the seeds were distributed in US] was traveling in Turkey and ordered a tomato slice on a sandwich in a restaurant. The slice overflowed the bread, so he saved out some seeds in a handkerchief and mailed that to his father in the USA (who loved big tomatoes)." * Commercially introduced by [[Two Seeds in a Pod]] . * Variety has been introduced to Turkish growers with Turkish synonym, Heybetli. sh growers with Turkish synonym, Heybetli.
Leaf potato  +
Maturity midseason  +
Member code Category:B.C KO T + , Category:FL OZ M + , Category:TX GU R +
See also Turkey No.1 + , Turkey No.3 + , Turkey No.4 + , Turkey No.5 + , PI 182234 (Turkey), PI 169580 (Turkey) +
Seed source Seed Savers Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa (IA SSE HF) 13 / Wade Ray Wofford of Niland, California (CA WO W)
Variety type open-pollinated  +
Vendor Two Seeds in a Pod + , Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds +
Year grown 2014  +
Categories Tomato Variety List  + , Tomato Seeds  + , Potato Leaf Tomatoes  + , Indeterminate Tomatoes  + , Pink Tomatoes  + , Beefsteak Tomatoes  + , B.C KO T  + , FL OZ M  + , TX GU R  + , Turkish Tomatoes  + , Tatiana's 2014 Growout List  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 14 October 2014 21:18:06  +
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