Stupice
| Stupice | |
|---|---|
| Maturity | early |
| Growth habit | indet. |
| Leaf type | potato |
| Fruit color | red |
| Fruit shape | round |
| Fruit size | small |
| Fruit type | salad |
| Variety type | heirloom |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
B.C KO T
- Compact indet., 4' plant, potato leaf, high yield of small red round fruits, 1-2 oz, very good flavor for such an early tomato, sweet and tangy. Very early. In the perfect spring/summer of 2009, I got the first ripe fruit on June 16 from the plants I started from seed on February 4 (132 days from seed, 50 days from transplant). In the less then ideal summers, I was getting first ripe fruits in early July, which is a month or month and a half ahead of other tomato varieties. My favorite early tomato.
Seed Source:
- 1. West Coast Seeds 04
- 2. Seed Savers Exchange 11
Year: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009
Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)
TX GU R
- 52 days, indet., potato leaf, superior taste and productivity, cold tolerant, personal favorite, hails from Morzuich section of Czech Rebublic.
Location: Pasadena, Texas
B.C GI K
- 60 days, potato leaf indeterminate, approximately 3.5-4' in height. Very heavy yields, even in hot and humid weather. Small to medium sized fruit, about 4 oz in weight. Very good flavour, especially for such an early variety. No cracking or blossom end rot, very hardy tomato.
- Source
- Meighan, Vancouver, BC, 2006 / My own saved seed.
Year: 2007, 2008, 2009
Location: Nelson, BC, canada
CA CA N
- The first fruit was harvested 55 days. The plants are potato leafed, make a lot of foliage and only grow to three to four feet. It gives small fruit that range from 2 to 3 ounces. It has one of the best flavors in the world, tangy and sweet; better than I expected for an early tomato. I did not get any deformed fruit besides a few that catfaced when it got over one hundred degrees. However, only a few blossoms dropped in those hot and humid days. One of the most hardy varieties I have ever seen, it survived the heat and survived until the first frost and made a few more fruit in fifty degree weather. I did three plants, one staked and pruned, one in a fifteen gallon pot with a cage that was only pruned a little bit and one that was allowed to sprawl with no cage. The staked one did not produce nearly as much as the other two, and I saw no difference in size, so let them make lots of leaves! They will reward you for it. I have heard that it comes from the former Czechoslovakia and was one of four varieties sent to the U.S. to be kept from the Soviets.
- Source 2010
- Bountiful Gardens Seeds, Willits, California 2010
- Source 2011
- My own saved seeds
Location: San Jose, California
History
- An heirloom tomato from Czechoslovakia.
- According to the founder of Abundant Life Seed Foundation Forest Shomer of Port Townsend, Milan Sodomka sent him some seeds in March 1976, which included Stupice. Please visit [1] to read the letter that Milan Sodomka sent to Forest Shomer.
- First offered commercially by Abundant Life Foundation (now Abundant Life Seeds ).
- By 1986, it was already listed in the Seed Savers Exchanged yearbook by nine SSE members, which tells a lot about its popularity back then, and it continues to be a very popular tomato in North America.
- One of the 100 heirloom tomatoes noted in Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".
- There are several varieties of Stupice tomato originated in Czechoslovakia:
- Stupické polní rané, an early field Stupice released in 1955. It is a result of stabilizing a cross of Mikado x Sláva Porýn x Solanum racemigerum.
- Stupické skleníkové (greenhouse Stupice) released in 1954. It is another selection from the same cross. It is said to have fewer seed locules and it is more flattened globe.
- The breeding efforts took place on a state-owned Stupice farm (Stupice is a small village near Prague, Czechoslovakia). The farm was privatized after 1989, and the 'rights' to the tomato was given to Stupice farm, and moravian firms Seva Flora (Valtice) and Moravoseed (Mikulov).
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Picture Gallery
Julien Schmit, France. Stupice - first fruit of the season. 2009.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - ripening fruit. 2009-06-21.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - ripe fruit. 2009-07-12.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - ripe fruit. 2009-07-12.
Dan McMurray (B.C MC D): Stupice (uploaded with the owner's permission)
Dan McMurray (B.C MC D): Stupice (uploaded with the owner's permission)
Sherry Shiesl, Alaska. Stupice - ripe fruit. 2011.
Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Stupice - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.
Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Stupice - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.
Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Stupice - ripe fruit. 2012-08-27.
Dan McMurray (B.C MC D): Stupice (uploaded with owner's permission)
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Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - flower buds. 2009-06-06.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - flowers. 2009-06-06.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - flowers. 2009-06-06.
Sherry Shiesl, Alaska. Stupice - flowers. 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - baby fruit. 2009-06-06.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - baby fruit. 2009-06-21.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Stupice - green fruit. 2009-07-12.
Sherry Shiesl, Alaska. Stupice - green fruit. 2011.
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