(Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain

General Info
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(Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain
Maturity	late
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	bi-color
Fruit shape	beefsteak
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	unstable segregation line
Country	Canada

B.C KO T

Indet., regular leaf, looks like it is segregating, so the original seeds were crossed.

Plant 1: First to mature, 1.5-2" round chocolate coloured fruit with dark green shoulders, very beautiful and different from any dark-coloured saladette/large cherry tomatoes I have seen before. Very good strong flavor. I named it Chocolate Princess.

Seed source:

B.C SA D 08 (Denise Salmon, Vancouver, BC, Canada) / Nat Bailey Farmer’s Market, BC, Canada 2006

Year grown: 2010

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

History

Found by Denise Salmon of Vancouver, BC, Canada, in the box of green-when-ripe tomatoes labelled Tennessee Green, sold by a local vendor at Nat Bailey Farmer’s Market in 2006. The salesperson told Denise that this off-type fruit was found in the field of Tennessee Green tomatoes. Denise bought the off-type coloured fruits (yellow variant), saved some seeds and shared them with Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T) in 2007.
It is just a speculation that the Tennessee Green tomatoes sold at the farmer's market were in fact the Spear's Tennessee Green variety.

Related

Spear's Tennessee Green (possibly a parent)
Chocolate Princess (offspring)

Picture Gallery

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Tennessee Yellow - baby fruit. 2010-07-11.
Denise Salmon (B.C SA D). (Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain - ripe fruit (left).
Denise Salmon (B.C SA D). (Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain - sliced fruits.
Denise Salmon (B.C SA D). (Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain - sliced fruits.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-25.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-25.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - sliced fruit. 2010-08-29.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - sliced fruit. 2010-08-29.