2025 Seeds Are Now HERE!
2025 Seeds Are Now HERE!
Orders are shipping 10-12 Business Days After Being Placed
Orders are shipping 10-12 Business Days After Being Placed
Days to Maturity: 85-90
Full Sun
Approximate Seed Count: 5
AnnualLIMIT 2 PACKETS PER CUSTOMER. IF PURCHASED MORE THAN 1 ORDER, YOUR EXTRA ORDERS WILL BE REFUNDED. We are trying to provide these seeds for everyone. Thank you
5 seeds per packet
Indeterminate - Plants produce decent amounts of tomatoes with a pink/red hue when fully ripe, weighing around 8-10 ounces, sometimes close to a pound. The fruit is a bit of beefsteak with meatiness but also the juiciness of a slicer. Seeds are medium size but few.
If you haven’t heard of this tomato, don’t feel bad. Most haven’t for over 45 years. It was extinct until we sprouted seeds that came from 85-year-old packets.
Two germinated, and 1 survived; we produced cuttings, saved seeds, and continued the process. It isn’t about the money as much as the story behind this variety, the journey it took to get here, and the mission to preserve genetic diversity in seeds!
You all will get to try it for the first time before anyone else and be a part of the history of bringing this back to the home garden where it was intended to be 85 years ago!
*Photo credit to H.Willens*
All of mine germinated. Unfortunately my house panthers pulled them out, but I am going to try again this year. So excited!!!
I bought this tomato seed because of the fun story. The appeal was to have a tomato that was almost lost to all of us. All of the seeds germinated, and they were several years old. This plant was the largest, most robust of the 12 tomatoes I grew this year. It produced a large crop of wonderful-tasting tomatoes and survived the blight that hit some of my other tomato plants this summer. I can't wait to grow it again next summer. If you get the chance, snatch these seeds up. You won't be disappointed.
I am so glad Luke saved this tomato variety. It has been our favorite tomato and we’ve grown it for the last couple of years. It’ll be a tomato we grow every year now! It’s delicious and grows well. We’ve used it as a slicer and made salsas with it. I would definitely recommend growing this tomato.
I tried only one seed so far and it germinated within a couple days. I can’t wait to grow and taste this variety of tomato after watching you bring it back from extinction! Thank you.
I’ve been growing giant crimsons for two years now and they are great producers with tomatoes that could be golf ball size to almost a one pounder. Perfect making a soup with!
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