@AgrarianSharing Eat this. Ultimately, what holds us up, the whole shebang, are our food systems. How then, are folk restoring the ways that people and food elegantly conjoin in a thriving, fundamentally _regenerative_ embrace? Mid-week church potlucks, for example, as resurrection-engines.
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Image of tomatoes, basil and mozarella arranged on a platter in the shape of a cross. The cross itself consists of Santiam Sunrise cherry tomatoes.
@aspiringpeasant @reaperracingTM I suspect 'Sungold'. It might take gold every damn time but you likely know that saving the seed will gift you nothing more than a dead end. Elsewhere, holistic plant breeders have been striving to dehybridize OP analogs. There are others but deets on two @agrariansharing share:
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If I recall, we're carrying two tomatoes which have grown out of Sungold genetics. Sungold, originally a cross made by a Japanese breeding company in Thailand. I once asked a friendly Japanese plant breeder out of the OSU complex to find out what he could about Sungold when he went back to Japan to hang out with his well-connected plant-breeding friends. He was very receptive. I approached him when he got back to ask what he'd discovered. I got the impression I'd asked him to inadvertently steal the Crown Jewels. Dehybridizing Sungold has been a holy grail of sorts for OP plant stewards since the beginning. We don't have anything comparable but the effort has nonetheless birthed some extraordinary results.
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We carry a couple of them. Sungella out of the UK and Santiam Sunrise from Adaptive. Sungella: 60-70 days. Indet. 1½-2” wide, sweet, orange globes are small but larger than cherry tomatoes. Plum-sized, 1-2 oz fruit with deliciously sweet flesh. Very productive and cold tolerant. Bigger and much more split resistant than Sungold. One of only a few tomato varieties that produces high quality fruit from the greenhouse well into November. Originally offered by the English seed company, Thompson and Morgan, bred by one of their customers. Santiam Sunrise 70 days - Indet. From Adaptive. Of late we've been circulating their 2016 stock seed selection, their ongoing endeavor to replace Sungold F1. Andrew says it's comparable in flavor to Sungold with a similar sweetness, but not quite as fruity. He likes it better than the hybrid because it lacks the overwhelming intense taste he says he finds tiresome. In comparison, he can eat Santiam Sunrise all day long.