Estate Tomato

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A tomato that stands up to both heat and cold, with a sweet, full tomato flavor. Tremendous resistance to stress; I had some in small pots that survived heat, uneven watering, drought, and wildfire smoke and still produced uncannily uniform, cosmetically perfect fruit with good flavor. (Not as many as they would have under good conditions, but still, what they did produce was perfect.) Fruit is very round, very red, very juicy, and 3" to 3 1/2" across--a great salad tomato. Market growers have asked me for a non-hybrid main season tomato with the crack-resistance, uniformity, and glossy red, round appearance that they need for market, coupled with heat-tolerance and good flavor. Estate is the one I suggest. An OSSI-pledged open source variety from Frank Morton, who grew this seed. Indeterminate vines to 7'. 20 seeds.

The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up her patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."