Joseph's Earliest Tomato: Seeds Available

[johno]

turtleheart, Ciudad Victoria is incredible. Here, it grows like a weed. And I love the rich flavor of those tiny red tomatoes.

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Has anyone tried those hybrid tomatoes bred by Alan Kapuler? The ones that were supposedly bred with a wild relative, and produced an abundantly bushy cherry tomato plant?

"Red Centiflor" and "Yellow Centiflor"

3/4” cherry toms, in huge clusters, on indeterminate vines. Unique breeding by Alan and Kusra Kapuler.

[johno]

I have grown them both. The red is preferable, to me. It was more productive and the fruits look and taste better. The yellows have a prominent point on the end. But they are both productive.

[turtleheart]

from my understanding the ancestry was never confirmed, and that they are sprawling indeterminate plants with the centiflor trait, and not the only lines out there either. the centiflor trait is when the plant puts up to 100 flowers out at once, creating a grape cluster effect like with riesentraube, which is german for cluster of grapes. i have never tried the "centiflor" named varieties, but i have grown out riesentraube with success, and i plan on growing out several varieties with that trait in 2012. sweet beverly and rose quartz multiflora to name a couple. (i saw one site claiming the trait came from a wild columbian sample. i cannot speak to the credibility.)

[Darth Slater]

I should mention that SB has 2 forms, one is non multifloral and more of a grape, the other is MF and pear shaped, they really show skinnier necks as the weather cools down.

[peppero]

joseph i started some of your earliest tomato seeds and they popped up in three days. that is fast! i look forward to tasting some. jon