Earliana

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Earliana
Maturity	early
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	red
Fruit shape	globe, oblate
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	commercial heirloom
Country	USA

B.C KO T

Early, compact indet., about 3' tall, regular leaf plant with round slightly oblate red fruit, 4-5 oz. Taste is good, but not great, a bit too juicy and mild for me. Ripe and almost ripe fruit develop concentric and radial cracking in heavy rain. It was not very productive for me in the cooler and wetter than normal summer of 2008.

Seed source:

Mireille Blais, Quebec, Canada 07

Year grown: 2007 (crop failure), 2008

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

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TX GU R

65 days, indet., neat looking plant, 4-6 oz fruit in clusters, good tasting.

Source 

Sand Hill Preservation Center

Location: Pasadena, Texas

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History

• Developed by George Sparks of Salem, New Jersey and was first offered commercially in 1900 by Johnson and Stokes of Philadelphia.
• Offered in Thorburn's Seeds 1908 Catalog, described as "extra-early, bright red, smooth".
• Accession number: PI 212421, LA3238. Donated to USDA in 1954.
• Description from 1935 Livingston Seed Catalog:

"Earliana. (Favorite type). The plants are compact in growth, with short, close-jointed branches, setting fruits very early. With our strain of Earliana the fruits are bright red, of uniform medium size, fleshy, solid and smooth. 55 days."

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See also

• Earliana, North Dakota
• Sunnybrook Earliana, Burpee's
• Spark's Earliana
• Earliana Pennsylvania (PI 270181)
• Alice Roosevelt (possibly a renamed 'Earliana' )

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Same as

• King of the Earlies (PI 636242, mentioned in seed catalogs at least 10 years earlier than Earliana. See also [1], [2])

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Earliana - 4 weeks old seedling. 2008-03-18

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Earliana - baby fruit. 2008-06-25.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Earliana - green fruit, mature size. 2008-07-27.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Earliana - ripe fruit. 2008-08-14.

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  Patty Brown, Ohio. Earliana - ripe fruit. 2012-07-15. Posted with the owner's permission.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Earliana - sliced ripe fruit. 2008-08-19.

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017		.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	.	.
2013	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - sold out for 2013 Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Heritage Harvest Seed Hazzard's Wholesale Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	.	.
2012	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Seed Savers Exchange Victory Seed Company	2	2
2011	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Heritage Harvest Seed - new Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	3	4
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	3	.
2009	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	4	.
2008	Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange TomatoFest Victory Seed Company	5	.
2007	Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange - new Victory Seed Company	5	.

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