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Minnesota(dw447@fastmail.fm)

Just wondering if this tomato would qualify as one tomato? I'm wondering if each cluster is the result of a mega bloom? If so, maybe this variety could be useful in breeding for the quality of increased mega blooms. What do you think of crossing Reisetomate with a large fruited variety such as Delicious, etc.?

1/19/2017 10:35:51 PM

Minnesota(dw447@fastmail.fm)

Here's a link to it:

http://www.rareseeds.com/reisetomate-tomato/reviews/

1/19/2017 10:36:20 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Years ago I tried crossing this with Big Zac. The result was a plant that produced small nicely shaped tomatoes. THey were tasty. I have not grown it since.

1/20/2017 8:50:00 AM

Germany

I grew a Reisetomate last year and thought about this too. The clusters are kind of mega blooms, but they are not as tight fused together like other giant maters. Marv, maybe they would be different in the F2 generation?

1/21/2017 9:04:41 AM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

They could be but I doubt it. I am not sure I even kept the seeds. F1 showed so little promise to me. Interesting thought though. I will look for the seeds and a picture I believe I took of the tomato that resulted from the cross.

1/21/2017 9:28:43 AM

Germany

I think you are right. They should have shown some hybrid vigor in F1... Also the Big Zac is in nearly every aspect better than the Reisetomate. Reisetomate is an earlier variety, but doesn`t taste as good as a Big Zac, BZ also grows more aggressively. The Reisetomate should originally be from guatemala, but the russians took it as a food source on their journeys (Reisetomate translated would be something like Journeytomato or Traveltomato). They didn`t have to eat the whole tomato at once. At least that is what Erich Stekovic from Burgenland, Austria claims. I heard that once he spreaded this story, but who knows? This guy cultivates a few hundred varieties of tomatoes and other crops and owns seeds of about 3200 tomato varieties. He also wrote a german book called: "Atlas der erlesenen Paradeiser" (In austria tomatoes are called Paradeiser, which means something like fruits from paradies)

1/21/2017 10:43:00 AM

Minnesota(dw447@fastmail.fm)

Thanks for the replies. I do recall reading the Reisetomate tomato being used by travelers. They could pick pieces off and eat them. I might give this tomato a try sometime.

1/23/2017 4:41:36 PM

Germany

Marv, I thought about it again and if you have some F2 seeds i would like to try them... maybe a small percentage of the plants would throw something interesting.

1/31/2017 3:41:58 AM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Send me your email address and when I am home I will get back to you. lubadub@aol.com

It will be awhile.

1/31/2017 11:45:16 AM

Germany

mail sent, thanks in advance!

1/31/2017 4:40:54 PM