Gary'O Sena

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Gary'O Sena
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	potato
Fruit color	purple, black
Fruit shape	beefsteak, oblate
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated, created heirloom, stabilized intentional cross
Country	USA

B.C KO T

indet., potato leaf plants, large boat-shaped and round purple-black beefsteaks with excellent flavor. 10-18 oz. High yields. Matures before many red and pink beefsteaks.

Seed source:

Doug Zuknick, West Virginia 07

Year grown: 2009

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

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MO MU K

Vigorous, indeterminate, potato leafed plants. Plants set well and produce rather early for such large sized fruits (70-75 days). First fruits have been recorded as early as 68 days. Fruit has a sweet quality to it.

Source 

Breeder. Keith Mueller

Year: 2005

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

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IL LO N

85 days, indet., potato leaf plant with good yield of 12-18 oz pink-black fruit with very good flavor.

Source 

TX AN S (Susan Anderson of Texas) / Darrel Jones 06 (CV Selected Plants)

Year: 2007

Location: Oblong, Illinois

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TX AN S

68-75 days, indet., potato leaf plants, medium to medium-large dark pink-purple fruits with excellent flavor, seems to set well in heat, a new favorite, from CV Selected Plants 06, Cherokee Purple X Brandywine cross, developed and stabilized by Keith Mueller of MO.

Source 

CV Selected Plants 06 / Keith Mueller of MO

Year: 2006

Location: Bastrop, Texas

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TX GU R

70 days, indet., potato leaf, large purplish black fruit to 1 lbs.

Source 

TX AN S (Susan Anderson of Texas) / Keith Mueller, MO

Year: 2007

Location: Pasadena, Texas

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History

• Breeder: Keith Mueller of Kansas City, Missouri.
• Parentage: A pink-purple line derived from the Brandywine X Cherokee Purple cross.
• Named for Keith Mueller's paternal grandmother. Her name by her account (when Keith sat down with her in 1999 and recorded family information for his own record) was spelled Gary'O not O'Sena. This is also the way her surviving children remember it being spelled. Her father, who was Irish, named her and there was a story behind it but neither Keith, nor do surviving family members, recall the story. A few records from the area list "Sena G." or "Garrie O'Sena" but these are incorrect.
• Introduced to SSE in 2007 by Susan Anderson, TX (TX AN S) and Robbins Hail (MO HA R2), and quickly gained popularity among SSE members and Tomatoville members.
• First introduced commercially by Sand Hill Preservation Center in 2009.

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Parents

• Brandywine
• Cherokee Purple

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Sister varieties:

• Dora
• Liz Birt
• Bear Creek

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - plant. 2010-07-16.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - baby fruit. 2009-06-27.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - green fruit. 2010-07-28.

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  Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Gary'O Sena - green fruit. 2012-09-29.

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  Keith Mueller. Gary'O Sena

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  Keith Mueller. Fruit interior

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - ripe fruit. 2009-08-24.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - ripe fruit. 2009-08-24.

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  Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Gary'O Sena.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - ripe fruit. 2010-09-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - ripe fruit. 2010-09-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - ripe fruit. 2010-09-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - sliced ripe fruit. 2009-08-24.

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  Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Gary'O Sena - sliced.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - sliced fruit. 2010-09-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Gary'O Sena - sliced fruit. 2010-09-11.

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017		.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Gleckler Seedmen	.	.
2013	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Delectation of Tomatoes - new Heritage Tomato Seed Knapp's Fresh Vegies Sand Hill Preservation Center - sold out for 2013	.	.
2012	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Gleckler Seedmen Heritage Tomato Seed	.	.
2011	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Gleckler Seedmen Heritage Tomato Seed - new Knapp's Fresh Vegies Sand Hill Preservation Center	9	2
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - new Gleckler Seedmen - new Gourmet Seed International Knapp's Fresh Vegies - new Sand Hill Preservation Center	7	1
2009	Gourmet Seed International - new Sand Hill Preservation Center	6	.
2008	Sand Hill Preservation Center - new	7	.
2007		2	.