Kozula

[jcm05]

interesting looking core

[GunnarSK]

Jul 28, 2010 11:06:55 GMT -5 jcm05 said:

interesting looking core

Yes, it looks like a small red tomato inside a bigger orange one, and I don't know if that was done on purpose.

[GunnarSK]

Another new one from this year. Darker and more firm than most with tolerance towards brown leaf spot. Regular trusses that don't require shortening. "Smokey" flavour typical of "black" tomatoes, sweet/sour. If over-fertilized too tart. In the picture hereunder right colour, which should be dark purple.

[bluelacedredhead]

Gunnar, That's a striking colour!! Wow.

[GunnarSK]

This is a bi-colour tomato. Lots of yellow stripes on a pink background. New for this year, but F4, which means that most traits are stable. Tastes like a "regular" red tomato.

[jcm05]

Fantastic looking fruit! That striped dark one is one of the prettiest lookin fruit i ever saw.

[GunnarSK]

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The next dusky tomato, ought to be purple, but tends more towards a beet colour, due to fertilizers.
This tomato needs less "food" than market types. If the colour is not right, the taste is too tart. This is a creation from last fall, without tolerance of brown leaf spot, but with regular trusses and well shaped fruit.
Hearts are the way they are, and who likes them must take the pain. Until now the only tomato of this type growing almost like an "ordinary" tomato, was Grightmire's Pride. It had also more firm fruit than others of this type.

[GunnarSK]

In this picture is a red of "black" type (seeds are F4). Tastes as a better pink with characteristic added "smokiness". Finished long ago, so it was probably an early one. In this year for some reason it worked out so, that the ugliest tomatoes were the tastiest.

[GunnarSK]

This is a couple of tomatoes from last season (2009). First a green-striped purple one and then chocolate with pink. I hope Kozula will make seeds available and maybe post a list later. I have to find out about copyright and possibly ask for permission.

[GunnarSK]

Kozula's distribution of seed will not take place before November at the earliest, because many plants are still going strong (she has most in polytunnels), and she needs to find a couple of volunteers to do the distribution proper.

[GunnarSK]

Sept 13, 2010 13:04:50 GMT -5 GunnarSK said:

Kozula's distribution of seed will not take place before November at the earliest, because many plants are still going strong (she has most in polytunnels), and she needs to find a couple of volunteers to do the distribution proper.

This is a photo by Smonika, one of the volunteers (in Polish œwistak, marmot because it always looks busy) who will distribute the seeds within Poland:

[GunnarSK]

There probably won't be any more tomatoes in Kozula's garden this year, but we can hope there will be some interesting seeds to distribute from November. This year I grew out some of her cherries and breeding lines, but they were all (?) killed by late blight before they could fruit. I still have a couple of seeds left from breeding lines, and several F1 from crosses, which I didn't grow:

From Breeding Lines (18-38):

from pink Ff x Copia , indeterminate
20. purple - chocolate Ff
28. pink with short yellow stripes Ff

from Big Zebra x Black Pear, indeterminate:
29. pink with green stripes which change to yellow by ripeness, strong colour
30. yellow with red stripes

from Steak Sandwich x Pink King:
32. pink dwarf plum Ff, big fruit on small plants
35. pink determinate Ff, strong colour

Crosses, F1, indeterminate (from 39)

41. Albenga x Black Zebra, red, medium size, prolific
44. Amish Salad x pink beefsteak Ff , red
47. pink globe Ff x Anna Russian, pink, intermediate between heart and "ordinary" pink
54. Caspian Pink x Pink King, pink
55. Cherokee Purple x Black Zebra
61. Copia x Black Zebra, red-green with stripes
63. Costoluto Genovese x Big Zebra
71. Grightmires Pride x pink beefsteak Ff, pink heart
73. Izrael Zebra x Black Zebra
75. Kalman x Anna Russian, pink heart
77. Kosovo x Pink King, pink
84. Orange Strawberry x Anna Russian , red heart
92. Purple Russian x Dyno , red, may be "smokey"
93. Razzle Dazzle x Anna Russian , pink, Razzle Dazzle is very firm
102. CLX 37397 x Copia, red
114. Orange Strawberry x Bawole Plantico, red heart
116. Orange Strawberry x Pink King, red

[GunnarSK]

Sept 23, 2010 13:35:29 GMT -5 GunnarSK said:

There probably won't be any more tomatoes in Kozula's garden this year.

Kozula was flooded for the third time this year, and now she has called tomato growing off. This picture from 23 September shows tomatoes, which ought to be pink with green stripes, and there are plenty of seed:

This summer it didn't work, but the later flowers were very well shaken and there must be many seed. Kozula is often able to grow two generations for seed production in one year thanks to her tunnels.

[GunnarSK]

Sept 23, 2010 20:13:48 GMT -5 @darthslater said:

Gunnar, I am not familiar with Albinga, is it from poland?
Darth

I don't know Albenga either, but it is not available here in smaller portions, so it can either be a "professional" variety (often F1), or foreign, in which case you'd be likely to know it.

[GunnarSK]

Sept 24, 2010 15:03:08 GMT -5 GunnarSK said:

I don't know Albenga either, but it is not available here in smaller portions, so it can either be a "professional" variety (often F1), or foreign, in which case you'd be likely to know it.

Albenga seems to be an Italian F1 heart, but you can do your own search, and a lot of things will come up.