Solanum pimpinellifolium Currant Tomatoes

[Jordy]

I sowed this year solanum Humboldtii thinking it was a real wild species but after searching it seems its a pimp or a cross between a pimp and a domestic. Only 1 plant showed exserted flowers. The plants vary with si and the one with exserted flower is si.

[reed]

I planted a lot of old seed from my pimp crossed tomatoes in a good sized and very crowded patch. The result was the discovery of four new ones that all have amazing flavor. They are all very, very sweet.
1- is bright yellow with fruits about the size of a marble or a little smaller, but still twice the size of the pure currents that grow wild and much better flavor.
2- is the same as 1 except it's red.
3- is red and also the same flavor wise but larger
4- is unlike any I've seen before. It is like 3 except it is very, very pale yellow. I've never seen a tomato that color or tasted one with its flavor.

Over the last several years lots of variations have showed up and most have been very good but these four all stand out.

As a rule, for the last years and still, any larger ones, the biggest about the size of a ping pong ball or any oblong or pear-shaped ones were not nearly as good. I'm mostly relied on volunteers for the last years too. Next year only these four will be planted and in abundance. All volunteer tomatoes next year other than potato leaf will be treated as weeds.

I bad-mouthed Sungold, saying it was a spitter in comparison to any of these, but I found the tag on that plant, and it was Matt's Wild Cherry, not Sungold. My apologies Sungold, tuff luck Matt. I'll test Sungold next year.

[William Schlegel]

My tomatoes from my deliberate current tomato crosses of two years ago are doing pretty well. I diluted some of then down to 1/4 last year. Looking forward to recovering some larger sizes next year from the diluted ones as it is a lot of cherry tomato sized tomatoes. I also have not recovered a lot of real tiny ones.

[reed]

I would like to cross mine with some bigger ones too, if I ever gain the patience and skill to do that. Because of the flavor though I want next year to just increase my supply of their seeds. Also hope they are far enough along from the original cross that they are stable, since some of the seeds were pretty old, they might be close to the original cross. I guess as long as the flavor stays it won't matter if color or size changes in some of them next year.