Brandywine, Red
| Brandywine, Red | |
|---|---|
| Maturity | midseason |
| Growth habit | indet. |
| Leaf type | regular |
| Fruit color | red |
| Fruit shape | oblate |
| Fruit size | medium |
| Fruit type | slicer, canner |
| Variety type | heirloom |
| Country | USA |
B.C KO T
- 80 days, indet., regular leaf, 4-14 oz red fruit, very good balanced flavor, medium yield.
- Seed Source
- 1. Reimer Seeds
- 2. Adam Floro, Illinois 05 / NY MA C (Carolyn Male of Salem, New York)
- 3. CV NK Lawn & Garden Co. 04
- 4. CV Hazzard's Greenhouse 11
- 5. Fred Civish, Utah 05 / Tomato Growers Supply 04
|2005 (Fred Civish), 2008 (sources #1-2), 2009 (NK Lawn & Garden)}}
MI FL J
- Large vines need caging or staking, 70 days, medium nearly round red fruit, very good full flavor. I have observed some early production, then a lull of about two weeks, then very reliable production for an extended period.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Craig LeHoullier of Raleigh, North Carolina
Year: 2003, 2004, 2005
Location: Augusta, Michigan
IL LO N
- 85 days, indet., regular leaf plant, high yield of red fruit, 8-12 oz, excellent taste.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / MD WY C 96 (Chuck Wyatt, Maryland)
Location: Oblong, Illinois
TX GU R
- 85 days, indet., regular leaf, full of flavor, poor producer, my wife's favorite.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / CV Vegetable Seed Warehouse
Location: Pasadena, Texas
CT BE J
- 85 days, regular leaf, very good production of consistent, round, red 6-10 oz fruit.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Tomato Growers Supply 2006
Year: 2007
Location: Connecticut
GERM SC K
- Beefsteak, good taste
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Manfred Hahm-Hartmann
Year: 2011
Location: Quitzdorf am See, Germany
CA CA N
- The large indeterminate regular leaved plants took seventy-nine days to produce. The fruit are bright red and range from half a pound to a pound and a half. They are rounder than most beefsteak tomatoes, but their flavor is great, no aftertaste, and the taste is a sweeter version of Stupice. This variety produces easily throughout the season, but is prone to cracking, so keep the watering to a minimum when the fruits start to form.
- Source
- Reimer Seeds / Local nursery seedling; grown by Upstarts (2010)
Year: 2010, 2011 (my own saved seeds)
Location: San Jose, California, Zone 9b
History
- Said to be named after the Brandywine River in eastern Pennsylvania.
- According to Carolyn Male, Tom Hauch at Heirloom Seeds in Pennsylvania was the first to get Red Brandywine out of the SSE Yearbook and offer it commercially. He sent seeds to Steve Miller at the Landis Museum in PA which features Amish varieties. Red Brandywine is the only one of the brandywines to have a documented Amish history and that's the one that Steve got when he followed up on the background.
- A few commercial seed vendors mistakenly offered a potato leafed version of Red Brandywine in the early 2000s. The authentic Red Brandywine has regular leaf foliage.
- Tomato Growers Supply continues to offer potato-leafed Red Brandywine, as Linda Sapp, the owner, believes that her customers like it and will miss it if it is removed from the TGS catalog.
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Picture Gallery
John Beidler (CT BE J). Red Brandywine, Plant 2007
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - flower and baby fruit. 2009-06-06.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - flower and baby fruit. 2009-06-27.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - baby fruit. 2009-06-21.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Red Brandywine - baby fruit. June 5, 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - green fruit. 2009-06-27.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - green fruit. 2009-07-11.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - green fruit. 2009-07-11.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - green fruit. 2009-08-05.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Red Brandywine - ripe fruit. July 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (Fred Civish) - ripe fruit. 2008-10-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (Adam Floro) - ripe fruit. 2008-10-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - ripe fruit. 2009-08-05.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - ripe fruit. 2009-08-16.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - ripe fruit. 2009-08-16.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Red Brandywine - ripe fruit. September 20, 2011.
Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Red Brandywine - ripe fruit. September 20, 2011.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (Fred Civish) - sliced fruit. 2008-10-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (Adam Floro) - sliced fruit. 2008-10-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - sliced fruit. 2009-08-05.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - sliced fruit. 2009-08-24.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Red Brandywine (NK Lawn & Garden) - sliced fruit, plant #2. 2009-08-28.
John Beidler (CT BE J). Red Brandywine, Fruit 2007
Jeff Fleming (MI FL J). Red Brandywine. 2005
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