| Country
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Turkey +
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| Description
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Indet., potato leaf. Large pink beefsteak fruits, 8-16 oz. Excellent sweet flavor. Flavor is more balanced at the beginning of the season, and gets sweeter in hot weather. (''15 seeds / packet'')
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| Fruit color
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pink +
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| Fruit shape
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oblate +
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| Fruit size
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large +
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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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* There are several PI accessions called ' … * There are several PI accessions called 'Turkey' listed in the SSE Yearbooks. Looks like there was a seed mix up several years ago. The correct one is potato leaf.
* First offered in the Seed Savers 1998 Yearbook by Seed Savers Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa (IA SSE HF), seeds from Wade Ray Wofford of Niland, California (CA WO W).
* SSE TOMATO 2530.
* From Turkey.
* Seeds for this variety were initially donated by a Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) member, Wade Wofford of California who died in 2006, to the SSE's Heritage Farm some time between 1988 and 1998. Wade obtained the variety through a chain of seed-passing involving members. Wade noted that "A son of the family [through which the seeds were distributed in US] was traveling in Turkey and ordered a tomato slice on a sandwich in a restaurant. The slice overflowed the bread, so he saved out some seeds in a handkerchief and mailed that to his father in the USA (who loved big tomatoes)."
* Commercially introduced by [[Two Seeds in a Pod]] .
* Variety has been introduced to Turkish growers with Turkish synonym, Heybetli. sh growers with Turkish synonym, Heybetli.
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| Leaf
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potato +
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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 +
, Category:FL OZ M +
, Category:TX GU R +
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| See also
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Turkey No.1 +
, Turkey No.3 +
, Turkey No.4 +
, Turkey No.5 +
, PI 182234 (Turkey), PI 169580 (Turkey) +
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| Seed source
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Seed Savers Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa (IA SSE HF) 13 / Wade Ray Wofford of Niland, California (CA WO W)
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| Variety type
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open-pollinated +
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| Vendor
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Two Seeds in a Pod +
, 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 +
, Potato Leaf Tomatoes +
, Indeterminate Tomatoes +
, Pink Tomatoes +
, Beefsteak Tomatoes +
, B.C KO T +
, FL OZ M +
, TX GU R +
, Turkish Tomatoes +
, Tatiana's 2014 Growout List +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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14 October 2014 21:18:06 +
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