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Agrinerd
Franklin, NC
(Zone 6b)

November 23, 2003
5:06 PM

Post #716312

I posted this in the tomato forum earlier today...

I may have stumbled across a "new" heirloom that the locals call 'Japanese Red'. It's been grown by a single family and sold locally as plants for at least 22 years. It was described as a large red-pink, some smooth, some rough, that was so good that the family refused to grow anything else. There are local stories that the seeds were sent from Viet Nam before the grower became a P.O.W., but a call to the family confirmed that his dad had been growing it long before the war. The family that grew it shut down their greenhouse a couple of years ago, but a young gentleman who is only in junior high school is building a greenhouse and picking up the gauntlet. The original family gave me his name and suggested I call him in April. I definitely will and will keep you posted with details as they arrive. Has anyone else heard of this tomato?

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