Climbing Trip-L-Crop

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Climbing Trip-L-Crop
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	potato
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	oblate, ribbed
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	commercial heirloom
Country	USA

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2013-09-13.

B.C KO T

Indet., potato leaf, large pink beefsteaks, 10-14 oz. In our garden it was not as high yielding as advertised, but the plants did not get the best location and got barely 5 hrs of direct sunshine per day, so it would be unfair to judge them too harshly.

Seed source:

Reimer Seeds / Dan and Val McMurray of Wynndel, British Columbia, Canada (B.C MC D) 06

Year grown: 2011

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

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GERM SC K

pink, small beefsteak tomato, regular leaf (Tatiana: incorrect, should be potato leaf'), indet., very late.

Seed source:

Reimer Seeds / CV Treml (Raritätengärtnerei Treml)

Year grown: 2004

Location: Germany

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TN MA T

Indeterminate, regular leaf, medium-large beefsteaks. Some ruffling on most fruits. Pink tomatoes weighed 8-12 oz and the fruit kept coming all the way to frost. Good tasting firm flesh. Mid season, 75 days.

Seed source:

Reimer Seeds / Commercial Plant 2009

Year grown: 2009

Location: LaFollette, Tennessee, USA

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History

• Breeder and vendor: Burgess Seed and Plant Co., Galesburg, Michigan. Listed in Burgess Catalog. 1937.
• Parentage: unknown; probably one of more vigorous strains of potato-leaf Ponderosa type, parent plant found in field of Colossal.
• Most of the growers report larger beefsteak fruit, which should be correct, given the parentage. Vent Marin describes it as potato leaf. SSE members who listed this variety in 2006-2008 Yearbooks did not mention leaf type, but we believe that the 'true' Climbing Trip-L-Crop should be potato leaf (see [1]).
• Trip-L-Crop tomato listed in the SSE Yearbooks is described as potato leaf.
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), PI 303799. Donated to USDA in 1965.
• PI 6447419. Donated to USDA in 1961 by Burgess Seed and Plant Company.
• There is also an RL version of this tomato available via some commercial seed vendors (i.e. CV Treml (Raritätengärtnerei Treml)).

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See also

• Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Burgess,
  
• Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Pink,
  
• Trip-L-Crop

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Also known as

• Italian Tree

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - plant. 2013-06-12

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  Ted Maiden (TN MA T): Climbing Trip-L-Crop - Seedling. 2009.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - seedling planted. 2011-05-01.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - plant. 2012-05-25.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - flower.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - flower. 2012-06-27.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2013-09-13.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2013-09-13.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2013-09-23.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2013-09-23.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit.

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  Ted Maiden (TN MA T): Climbing Trip-L-Crop - ripe fruit. 2009.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - sliced fruit. 2013-09-13.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Climbing Trip-L-Crop - sliced fruit. 2013-09-23.

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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	Heirloom Seeds Pinetree Seeds Solana Seeds Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest	.	.
2013	Hazzard's Wholesale Seeds Pinetree Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Skyfire Garden Seeds Solana Seeds Swallowtail Garden Seeds Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest	.	.
2012	Pinetree Seeds Tomato Growers Supply	1	1
2011	Pinetree Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Solana Seeds Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest	1 (Trip-L-Crop) + 1 (Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Pink + 1 (Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Burgess)	0
2010	Pinetree Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Solana Seeds Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest (Trip-L-Crop)	2 (Trip-L-Crop) + 1 (Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Pink + 1 (Climbing Trip-L-Crop, Burgess)	1 (as Triple Crop)
2009	Pinetree Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Solana Seeds (Triple Crop) - new Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest (Trip-L-Crop) Totally Tomatoes	2 + 2 Trip-L-Crop	.
2008	Sand Hill Preservation Center Tomato Growers Supply TomatoFest (Trip-L-Crop) Totally Tomatoes	2 + 1 (Trip-L-Crop)	.
2007	Sand Hill Preservation Center Tomato Growers Supply	2 + 2 (Trip-L-Crop)	.