Dixie Golden Giant

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Dixie Golden Giant
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	yellow, golden
Fruit shape	globe, oblate
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	heirloom
Country	USA

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Indet., regular leaf, very large bright yellow beefsteaks, 8-14 oz. Fruits are very meaty, with small seed locules. Nice fresh mild flavor, slightly acidic. (20 seeds / packet)

Seed Source 

Reimer Seeds / Carrie Jones of Covington, Washington 09|2012}}

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85 days, indet., regular foliage, 12 oz to 1+ lb, gold fruit with good taste, excellent yield.

Source 

Reimer Seeds / NY MA C 95 (Carolyn Male of Salem, New York) / USDA (?)

Location: Oblong, Illinois

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History

• An heirloom grown by an Amish family since the 1930s.
• First introduced in the SSE 1994 Yearbook by Ron E. Thuma of Hartford, Kansas (KS TH R). Ron still offers it in the 2008 Yearbook and describes it as follows:

"80 days, heirloom lemon-yellow beefsteak type, large plant, good cover, huge fruit (some over 2 lbs) with few seeds, good flavor, high yielding, from KS TH R 93, grown by an Amish family since 1930s, Minnie Zaccaria of Long Branch, NJ acquired from Austin Isaacs of McKee KY after we had searched for it for 5 years, SSE TOMATO 3166."

• NSL 67886, PI 645322. Donated to USDA in 1968 from Georgia, USA. The USDA narrative says:

"81-85 days, small fruits, greenhouse type, oblate shape, yellow color, indeterminate, low acid, sets at high & low temperatures. Hastings Seed Co., Okla. 8/68 Resistance to: fusarium, cracking, blossom end rot, grey leaf mold, rot, vertic. wilt, late blight, leaf mold, nail hd rust, stem. wilt, col. rot, altenaria, curly top, spotted wilt, early blight, root knot, spotted wilt virus, etc. Adapted to Mechan. harvesting.

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - plant. 2012-06-27.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - flower. 2012-06-28.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - flower. 2012-06-28.

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  Marla and Steve McClaren, CA (Heritage Tomato Seed). Dixie Golden Giant. 2009 (uploaded with owner's permission)

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  Julien Schmit, France. Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2009.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2012-10-07.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2012-10-07.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2012-10-14.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2012-10-14.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - sliced fruit. 2012-09-18.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - sliced fruit. 2012-10-07.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - sliced fruit. 2012-10-14.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Dixie Golden Giant - sliced fruit. 2012-10-14.

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  Julien Schmit, France. Dixie Golden Giant - ripe fruit. 2009.

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