Kozula

[GunnarSK]

The best known (to me anyway) breeder of tomatoes in Poland is Anna Kozula from the Southeast, who has been producing her own varieties for five years, although she started out as a typical market grower with stable varieties. In her own words, she chanced into breeding, when a friend of hers brought a tomato from abroad, which was of an "amateur" variety, but tasty, beautyful and productive enough to warrant a market "experiment". There were 3 seedlings, from which seeds were taken, for this was thought to be a stable variety. 4 polytunnels were planted, but .... total disaster. A strange mix of tomatoes with different shapes, including determinates and dwarves. In spite of the look most of the tomatoes were sold, because they found buyers for their flavour. She decided to improve them by crossing and selection, and that has been going on for 5 years now with significant improvement of the result.
Now she has become a master of crossing, and her seeds were distributed to many different people, including me.
Her market growing is different from everyone else's, because each plant is different (unique).

The master list including all tomato seeds that were distributed for free this year:

(non-Polish varieties used in crossings and distributed after grow out)
1. Amish Salad , red heart
2. Black from Tula , black with plenty of flesh
3. Black Krim , black, naturally salty
4. Black Japanese Trifele , black, non-cracking
5. Black Zebra , avoid too much nitrogen in fertilizer because of bad taste
6. Big Zebra
7. Copia , yellow with red stripes,fruity taste
8. Cherokee Purple , black with plenty of flesh
9. Grightmires Pride , pink heart with short internodes for this type
10. Kalman, fruit oblong, long internodes, suscptible to dry rot, never tart
11. Purple Russian, black with oblong fruit

(cherries, cocktail tomatoes):
12. truskawkowy (seed from store bought F1)
13. Oblong fruit with "real" tomato taste
14. Huge trusses
15. truskawkowy x Dyno
16. truskawkowy x pink plum, indeterminate Ff (resistant against fungal brown leaf spot, fusarium)
17. truskawkowy x Purple Russian

(breeding lines)
From Pink Ff x Copia, all indeterminate:
18. yellow plum with pink nuances, sweet
19. yellow with pink stripes Ff
20. purple - chocolate Ff
21. red Ff
22. pink, weak stripes Ff
23. orange, weak stripes Ff
24. green-purple stripes, rather tart
25. green striped with pink nuances Ff
26. pink with green stripes, by full ripeness changing to yellow Ff
27. pink with yellow stripes Ff
28. pink with short yellow stripes Ff

From Big Zebra x Black Pear, indeterminate

29. pink with green stripes, by full ripeness changing to yellow, strong colour
30. yellow with red stripes

From Black Zebra x Orange Strawberry , indeterminate

31. red striped

From Steak Sandwich x Pink King

32. pink dwarf plum Ff, weak seedlings, big fruit
33. pink determinate Ff, strong foliage
34. pink determinate Ff
35. pink determinate Ff, strong colour
36. pink indeterminate Ff, round, productive, good consistency
37. pink indeterminate Ff, big fruit, flattened, remove double blooms

From pink Ff x Kalman

38. pink indeterminate Ff, oblong fruit


(Crosses, indeterminate)

39. Albenga x Beeforange, red or orange
40. Albenga x Big Zebra
41. Albenga x Black Zebra, red, mid size, productive
42. Albenga x pink round Ff
43. Albenga x pink flattened Ff
44. Amish Salad x pink flattened Ff, red or golden
45. Big Zebra x Orange Strawberry
46. Black Japanese Trifele x Black Zebra
47. pink round Ff x Anna Russian, pink, between heart and "ordinary"
48. Black Japanese Trifele x Cherokee Purple
49. Black Zebra x Big Zebra
50. Black Pear x Kalman, red, for poor locations, sensitive to excessive nitrogen
51. Black Pear x pink round Ff
52. Caspian Pink x Dyno
53. Caspian Pink x Kalman, pink
54. Caspian Pink x Pink King, pink
55. Cherokee Purple x Black Zebra
56. Cherokee Purple x pink round Ff
57. Cherokee Purple x pink flattened Ff
58. CLX 37 397 x pink flattened Ff, pink, there should be a small amount of gel
59. Copia x Beeforange, red or orange
60. Copia x Big Zebra , yellow striped
61. Copia x Black Zebra, red and green striped
62. Copia x Orange Strawberry
63. Costoluto Genovese x Big Zebra
64. Dyno x Bawole Serce from market,
65. Dyno x Big Zebra
66. Dyno x Copia
67. Dyno x pink flattened Ff
68. Dyno x Orange Strawberry , red, early, productive, tasty - disadvantage - long internodes
69. Faworyt x pink flattened Ff, pink
70. Faworyt x Pink King, pink
71. Grightmires Pride x pink flattened Ff, pink
72. Israeli Striped x Big Zebra
73. Israeli Striped x Black Zebra
74. Israeli Striped x pink flattened Ff
75. Kalman x Anna Russian, pink heart
76. Kosovo x pink flattened Ff, pink
77. Kosovo x Pink King, pink
78. Lnisno x Big Zebra, red, Lnisno is a pink heart
79. Lnisno x Copia, red
80. pink round Ff x Big Zebra, red
81. pink round Ff x Dyno, red
82. pink round Ff x Kalman, pink
83. Malinowy Warszawski x Pink King, pink
84. Orange Strawberry x Anna Russian, red heart
85. Orange Strawberry x Big zebra, red
86. O¿arowski Z³oty x Orange Strawberry, yellow, productive, rather tart
87. Persimmon x Dyno, red
88. Persimmon x Orange Strawberry, yellow
89. Persimmon x Pink King , red
90. Purple Russian x Black Zebra, red
91. Purple Russian x Cherokee Purple, black
92. Purple Russian x Dyno, red, may be smokey towards "black"
93. Razzle Dazzle x Anna Russian, pink, Razzle Dazzle is very hard/firm
94. Razzle Dazzle x Dyno, red
95. Steak Sandwich x Anna Russian, pink
96. ( Beeforange Ff x Orange Straw.) x Big Zebra, probably orange heart

98. ( Dyno x Orange Straw.) x Bawole Serce from market
99. ( Dyno x Orange Straw.) x pink round Ff
100. O¿arowski Z³oty x ( Beeforange Ff x Orange Straw.)
101. Big Zebra x Pink King, red
102. CLX 37397 x Copia, red
103. CLX 37397 x -pink Ff, pink
104. Kalman x Bawole Serce from market, pink heart shaped
105. pink determinate Ff x Anna Russian, pink, between heart shaped and "ordinary"


Two year old seeds (from 2008)

106. Bawole Serce from Plantico x Orange Strawberry, red heart
107. Bawole Serce from market x Orange Strawberry, red heart
108. Bawole Serce from market x Bawole Serce from Plantico, red or golden
109. Beeforange x Orange Strawberry, orange
110. DRK 7014 x Bawole Serce from market
111. DRK 7014 x Orange Strawberry
112. Dyno x Kalman, elongated fruit, golden, tasty
113. Kalman x Dyno - different look and taste than cross of the same parents reversed (female x male)
114. Orange Strawberry x Bawole Serce from Plantico, red heart
115. Orange Strawberry x Bawole Serce from market, red heart
116. Orange Strawberry x Pink King, red

Segregation and selection necessary:

117. (Black Zebra x Copia) F2 , red and green stripes, should be striped in different colours
118. (Dyno x Big Zebra) F2, this may be a striped plum, to get something interesting you have to grow at least 10 plants.


A "lost" one in the end:

119. pink determinate, early, tasty, from Steak Sandwich

[jcm05]

Invite her here Gunnar.

[sunflowers]

1. Amish Salad , red heart

Maybe she got wrongly marked seeds, but Amish Salad is NOT a heart and is NOT red. It's a slightly larger sized pink cherry. I've been growing it for years and it's one of my favs.

Carol

[GunnarSK]

Jul 9, 2010 8:30:52 GMT -5 @ said:

Hey Gunnar, how can I get a hold of some of those fine Polish tomatoes? Almost every Polish tomato I have tried has been excellent flavor wise.

If my growout next spring is successful, I'll have seeds to share. Now I have only commercial varieties.

[GunnarSK]

Jul 7, 2010 20:25:13 GMT -5 jcm05 said:

Invite her here Gunnar.

I already suggested that she write directly to Spudleafwillie, but she doesn't know English because she threw rocks at the school instead (during communist rule). Of course I could write to her again and suggest my own translation service.

[stratcat]

Jul 11, 2010 5:03:07 GMT -5 GunnarSK said:

Jul 7, 2010 20:25:13 GMT -5 jcm05 said:

Invite her here Gunnar.

I already suggested that she write directly to Spudleafwillie, but she doesn't know English because she threw rocks at the school instead (during communist rule). Of course I could write to her again and suggest my own translation service.

By all means, Gunnar, please write her. That would be really nice!

[GunnarSK]

This is a picture of one of Kozula's newest creations, unfortunately I don't know from which growout:url=http://www.fotosik.pl][/url]

This tomato has golden stripes on a dark pink background, but the photo is not quite just to this tomato. The pinks were so successful in the taste department, that people when there are no more fruit eat leaves and finish with the owner, though that doesn't compare.

[GunnarSK]

Jul 9, 2010 7:01:46 GMT -5 sunflowers said:

1. Amish Salad , red heart

Maybe she got wrongly marked seeds, but Amish Salad is NOT a heart and is NOT red. It's a slightly larger sized pink cherry. I've been growing it for years and it's one of my favs. Carol

I've seen Amish Paste described as a heart, but probably never Amish Salad. Varieties which are not available from Polish CVs are often found on the Polish auction site Allegro, and I think that is where Kozula has some of her seeds from, and they could easily be mixed up or crossed.

[GunnarSK]

This is a GWR tomato, also one of Kozula's creations. She has more striped ones than uniformly green, because Big Zebra and Black Zebra were part of her original material. This tomato has been tasted and is a positive surprise with a lot of sugars and some acid to make it aromatic.



A "Burning Zebra" in different stages of ripeness, and in the company of a purple striped, which is of the "black" type and therefore has green flesh:

[jcm05]

Wow. Fantastic looking tomatoes!

[bluelacedredhead]

Gunnar,
I'm not fond of green fleshed tomatoes, but these pictures you posted are nonetheless making me very hungry...The colours are gorgeous!

[frogsleapfarm]

Wow, very nice!

[ozarklady]

Those tomatoes are gorgeous, I avoid green tomatoes, I want tomatoes that I can tell when they are ripe, not a guessing game.
I fry green tomatoes, that are really green.
But, I have never sampled a green flesh when ripe tomato.
If you have extra seeds, keep me in mind!

[GunnarSK]

There wasn't room for all colours on the plate. Most look better than they taste. The dark ones turned out too tart. Most striped pinks were not sliced, the yellows are good and the greens also.

[GunnarSK]

Not all new varieties will be succesful, but the one on these pictures shows some promise as an amateur variety. It is tolerant against (fungal) brown leaf spot, fruit rather big, flattish, not too sweet, not too tart with some fruity aftertaste , holds
gel well and doesn't drip after slicing, good firmness. The seeds were already taken care of. Tomatoes from them will be F4, so there may stilll be different colours, but 3-4 plants should suffice to have one look similar. In the next generation there will be less "noise", and F6 ought to be almost pure.