German Giant

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• Seed Availability

German Giant
Maturity	late
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	oblate
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated
Country

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B.C KO T

Seed source:

1. Jean Beyer of Black Creek, Wisconsin (WI BE J2) 09 / Dorothy Beiswenger, Crookston, Minnesota (MN BE D)

2. Tomato Growers Supply 11

Year grown: 2018

Location: Zone 6b, PNW, Columbia Valley (Lower Mainland), BC, Canada (780 ft above sea level)

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85 days, indet., regular leaf plant with 0.75 lb pink fruit wih a very good taste, fair yield.

Source 

Reimer Seeds / IA DR G 96 (Glenn Drowns, Iowa) / CA BR D 85 (Don Branscomb, California)

Location: Oblong, Illinois

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History

• Unknown.
• Both regular leaf and potato leaf are in circulation, in SSE Yearbooks and commercially. For example, Tomato Growers Supply offers potato leaf version, and Sand Hill Preservation Center does not indicate the leaf type in their public seed catalog, but the SSE members who grew this variety from the seed obtained from Glenn Drowns listed it as 'regular leaf'. Glenn obtained the seed from Don Branscomb in 1985.
• 'German Giant' variety can be traced as far back as SSE 1979 Yearbook, if not earlier (I have no earlier Yearbooks to check). The entries in the earlier SSE Yearbooks (1985) did not specify the leaf type.
• It is not clear which version, regular leaf or potato leaf, is correct. Given its generic name, it is also possible that the two variants may be entirely different varieties. One SSE member who offered this variety in 2008 Yearbook mentioned that they observed both leaf forms, therefore crossed seed is also a possibility.

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Picture Gallery

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  Blane Horton (PKS South). Indian Stripe. Uploaded with owner's permission by S Harris.

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017	Reimer Seeds	.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	Diane's Flower Seeds Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest	.	.
2013	Delectation of Tomatoes - new Hazzard's Wholesale Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center - sold out for 2013 Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest	.	.
2012	Tomato Growers Supply * (PL)	.	.
2011	Sand Hill Preservation Center - not available for 2011 Tomato Growers Supply * (PL) TomatoFest (PL)	6	1
2010	Tomato Growers Supply (PL) TomatoFest (PL)	5	.
2009	Sand Hill Preservation Center Tomato Growers Supply - PL TomatoFest (PL)	6	.
2008	Sand Hill Preservation Center Tomato Growers Supply - PL TomatoFest (PL)	7	.
2007	Sand Hill Preservation Center Tomato Growers Supply - PL	7	.