Post by macmex on Mar 7, 2022 5:56:35 GMT -6
I believe it was last week that Ron and i managed to get together. I brought him some mulberry cuttings and he wanted to show me some seeds he had received from a friend in France. The seeds had been labeled in a way that the US Postal Service didn't recognize exactly who was supposed to receive them and they had kindly passed them to someone they deemed to have a good likelihood of getting them to Ron. All this took a year, but they did!
Ron shared some tomato seeds with me.
Ron, I need you to share the name of the town in France and whatever other information you can, about the origin of these seeds.
I recall that the donor wrote that she named this tomato "Exchange," because she received her seed from a person who wanted to do a swap. Literally, they made "the exchange" in the street!
After Ron finally received the seeds he and this seed saver friend communicated. I remember that she commented to Ron that since sending the seeds she had lost her seed to this tomato and asked that he have success in reproducing this seed, that she's like to receive some back again.
I wasn't planning to grow any new tomatoes this year. In fact, I was planning to grow fewer than normal. But Ron put five of these seeds into my hands and... I couldn't resist. I started them this morning. Ron has some seed too, so he may do the same.
There were five seeds in the packet I received. While taking them out of the packet, one flew off and I never found it. So I started four.
Anyone can lose a variety. Some seed savers (myself included) have organizational challenges. I was reminded of this last week while doing inventory on my own seeds. I ran across more than one tomato which is essentially lost. I'm going to try to revive some 2009 seed of Prudence Purple, a variety I received in 1985 from Thomas Watson of Charleston, NC. I never was sure that it was identical to the other Prudence Purple strains out there and some years ago the Seed Savers Exchange decided to lump it together with the others. At that point I stopped offering it. But then for some years I failed at reproducing it, largely due to organizational weakness. So, this is why it's so important to share delicate varieties of seed.
Hopefully this Exchange tomato seed grows and this isn't the end of this thread and of this variety.
Ron shared some tomato seeds with me.
Ron, I need you to share the name of the town in France and whatever other information you can, about the origin of these seeds.
I recall that the donor wrote that she named this tomato "Exchange," because she received her seed from a person who wanted to do a swap. Literally, they made "the exchange" in the street!
After Ron finally received the seeds he and this seed saver friend communicated. I remember that she commented to Ron that since sending the seeds she had lost her seed to this tomato and asked that he have success in reproducing this seed, that she's like to receive some back again.
I wasn't planning to grow any new tomatoes this year. In fact, I was planning to grow fewer than normal. But Ron put five of these seeds into my hands and... I couldn't resist. I started them this morning. Ron has some seed too, so he may do the same.
There were five seeds in the packet I received. While taking them out of the packet, one flew off and I never found it. So I started four.
Anyone can lose a variety. Some seed savers (myself included) have organizational challenges. I was reminded of this last week while doing inventory on my own seeds. I ran across more than one tomato which is essentially lost. I'm going to try to revive some 2009 seed of Prudence Purple, a variety I received in 1985 from Thomas Watson of Charleston, NC. I never was sure that it was identical to the other Prudence Purple strains out there and some years ago the Seed Savers Exchange decided to lump it together with the others. At that point I stopped offering it. But then for some years I failed at reproducing it, largely due to organizational weakness. So, this is why it's so important to share delicate varieties of seed.
Hopefully this Exchange tomato seed grows and this isn't the end of this thread and of this variety.
