jcm05
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Post by jcm05 on Aug 6, 2010 20:58:36 GMT -5
Nice pics Michelle!
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Post by frdmfrc on Sept 19, 2010 14:34:26 GMT -5
We finally got a couple ripe Opalka. I'm eagerly awaiting more to ripen so we have enough to make sauce. We only planted 2 plants this year and I'm wishing we'd have planted more. Next year .....  Attachments:
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nolika
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Post by nolika on Dec 15, 2010 3:54:26 GMT -5
It was quite late for me but a good tasting tomato, quite big too. But my paste star still is Jersey Devil...
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carolyn137
Breeder in Training
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Post by carolyn137 on Dec 15, 2010 6:26:42 GMT -5
I wasn't posting here at TTG when this variety was featured but I'm the one who introduced in many years ago by listing it in the SSE YEarbook and I think well of it along with some other paste varieties such as:
Heidi
Mama Leone
Martino's Roma
Sarnowski Polish Plum
..... to name a few.
And I have grown several other red long paste varieties such as Howard German and Jersey Devil and Sausage.
I've also grown I think all the Costolutos which don't impress me as well as the San Marzanos which don't impress me either.
Actually I'm one of many who prefer to use great tasting varieties for sauce rather than paste types b/c the latter, in general, are not known for great taste, are more susceptible to BER as well as Early Blight ( A. solani)
My original seeds for Opalka were from Carl Swidorski, a fellow faculty member at the last place where I taught, and they were brought to the US from Poland to Amsterdam, NY in about 1900 via his wife's family.
And there are several varieties that have the word paste as part of the variety name but aren't really paste varieties, and two of them are Amish Paste and Lillian's Red Kansas Paste; too juicy and too many seeds to be considered as paste varieties IMO/
Carolyn
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Post by ceresone on Dec 15, 2010 12:10:12 GMT -5
Of all the Tomatoes I've grown, Opalaka is always one of them. Here on our farm, it out produces everything, and is great, no matter what you use it for, fresh, canning, paste, etc.
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barton
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Post by barton on Dec 27, 2010 22:06:45 GMT -5
Love 'em. Market customers raved over them...they did not use them for sauce, they loved them fresh! I've never grown Cow's Tit. Maybe someone can turn me on to the seeds. I was just trying to access the SSE online yearbook to look for them, but it wouldn't let me in.  Anyway, Opalka must like my climate/soil/or something, because they are A++ to me...a mainstay.  |
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Post by GunnarSK on Mar 19, 2011 15:40:22 GMT -5
Love 'em. Market customers raved over them...they did not use them for sauce, they loved them fresh! I've never grown Cow's Tit. Maybe someone can turn me on to the seeds. I was just trying to access the SSE online yearbook to look for them, but it wouldn't let me in. Anyway, Opalka must like my climate/soil/or something, because they are A++ to me...a mainstay. Sounds (and looks) great, and I hope the Opalkas I got seeds for from w8in4dave will be as good. |
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