Evaluation project of 3 disease resistant outdoor tomato varieties

The 3 varieties were tested by Ben and the real seed company in Wales.
Unfortunately they all got sick and died.
This is quite strange because they performed really well for us here in brittany, france.
It must be said that last year was a paricularly nasty growing season with lots of rain, cool weather and little sunshine.
It goes to show that these 3 varieties are not 100% resistant.

They were also tried in other countries in europe but i never got any feedback possibly due to me leaving facebook as i got so sick of it.

I want to thank Aaron Parker in Maine and Kara Huntermoon for trying out the 3 varieties and for possibly spreading seeds.
From my side this project is closed now in the sense that i don't send out seeds anymore.
If they prove to be good they will spread on their own.
Sadly Carol Deppe and the OSSI people never got back to me so i guess they weren't interested.
Anyway organisations such as OSSI, great as they may be, are not needed for free people to spread free seeds around.

I contacted EFN and tried closing down this project page but they didn't react.
Now i am thinking if it stays open people that do end up getting seed and growing them can post their experiences.
I will keep these tomatoes because they perform really well for us here.
So dehybridisation works and is worth it !!!
Best wishes and happy continuation,
Philip

I grew out Shaune and Christophe in summer 2024 in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. We are not quite in the target area of high disease pressure that these tomatoes are bred for. They did very well for me, with very little to no blossom end rot (which is a big problem here). No disease at all. If you want seed to trial these on the Oregon or Washington coast, contact me. I saved a lot of seed.

I just joined EFN and would like to participate in this project. I live on the Washington coast and have problems with late season blight (as do most people in the area) so it would be great if one or more of these varieties was resistant. I have separate areas for the 3.
Thank you,
Larry

I must explicitly thank Alan Kapuler whose knowledge and concept of dehybridisation came to me through the fantastic book of Carol Deppe " breed your own vegetable varieties."
I merely followed and did what
Alan and Carol suggested and sowed the seeds of crimson crush F1. The first year 3 out of 15 seedlings resisted mildew. 20%. Second year over 60% were resistant. Third year nearly all. I then or before gave seeds to two good grower friends and Shanne and Christophe selected according to their own criteria. This year no disease was practically touching them and they are still ripening fruit outside now on the 26th of september.

A big thank you to Alan Kapuler and Carol Deppe for information, inspiration and explanation.
Philip Heinemeyer,
Brittany 26th sept. 2023

Phil tomato harvested yesterday.

I must add that all 3 selections grew so well here this year with practically no mildew. Just my own by bad companion planting of dozens of Adzuki beans between and under the tomatoes smothered my plants are were perfect climbing support for rodents snails and slugs so i lost most fruit but they didn't get sick. We here in Brittany never saw or grew outdoor tomatoes like that here before, EXCEPT the original crimson crushF1 that is a Monster and doesn't get any mildew but the taste is not great. Our 3 dehybridised types all taste much better.

Harvested Yesterday i didn't have the foresight i could now so use and need those seeds because that was the last decent sized red one on a good plant from mine so now I have to wait to let some more ripen.
You i just ate it Yesterday. It was very nice. The not so nice looking spot underneath is due to my mistake of sowing hundreds of adzuki beans in the same bed. I think that effected that fruit but i had a few red completely. Disease résistance is great. Companionwise grown badly by mistake association with adzuki who half smothered the plants. Rodents climbing up ate all the lower fruit. My selection for much flesh few seeds. Good taste!

So this is great. It's just that I have no seeds but all 3 types are still ripening tomatoes outdoors now on the 27th of septembre. So i must go and collect seeds. I already did but I labelled them badly.