| Country
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USA +
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| Description
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Indet., regular leaf plants produce medium … Indet., regular leaf plants produce medium sized golden orange fruits that are not heart shaped despite the name. Not sure why it was called 'heart'. Fruits are oblate and round, blemish free, with firm and meaty flesh. We have not observed any cracking, even in rainy weather. 4-6 oz. Great flavor, more acidic than sweet. (''limited, 15 seeds / packet'') an sweet. (''limited, 15 seeds / packet'')
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| Fruit color
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golden +
, orange +
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| Fruit shape
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oblate +
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| Fruit size
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medium +
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| Fruit type
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slicer +
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| Growth habit
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indet. +
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| History
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* Old commercial heirloom from the USA.
* … * Old commercial heirloom from the USA.
* '''Breeder and vendor''': Farmer Seed and Nursery Co., Faribault, Minnesota. 1955.
* '''Parentage''': F5 selection from a yellow F2 segregate from ([[Pritchard]] x ([[Firesteel]] x [[Tiny Tim]])).
* Characteristics: early, deep fruited and orange color, very sweet, firm flesh.
* United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), [[USDA link::http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1033470|PI 644744]]. Donated to USDA in 1961.
* USDA Narrative:
: ''"Smooth, golden yellow, thick walled fruits with typical tomato flavor, ripen 2 weeks before any other yellow variety. Farmer's Seed & Nursery 1961 catalog List of veg. var. "Committee on veg. breeding & var." Am'n. Soc. for Hort. Sc. August 1959 p.77."''
* First offered in the Seed Savers 2005 Yearbook by Bruce Swanson of Deerwood, Minnesota (MN SW B), who got the seeds from Craig LeHoullier of Raleigh, North Carolina (NC LE C). Original seed was from the USDA.
* SSE TOMATO 1413. seed was from the USDA.
* SSE TOMATO 1413.
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| Leaf
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regular +
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| Maturity
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midseason +
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| Member code
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Category:B.C KO T +
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| Related
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Tiny Tim +
, Pritchard +
, Firesteel +
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| See also
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Jubilee +
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| Seed source
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1. Julien Schmit, Nancy, France 09 / [[TomatoFest]] 08
: 2. Patty Brown, Ohio 07
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| USDA
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PI 644744 +
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| USDA link
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http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1033470 +
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| Variety type
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open-pollinated +
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| Vendor
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TomatoFest +
, Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds +
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| Year grown
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2014 +
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| Categories |
Tomato Variety List +
, Tomato Seeds +
, Yellow and Orange Tomatoes +
, Indeterminate Tomatoes +
, Regular Leaf Tomatoes +
, Medium Tomatoes +
, USDA Tomatoes +
, US Tomatoes +
, B.C KO T +
, Tatiana's 2014 Growout List +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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13 October 2014 20:00:51 +
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