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Originally Posted by marktutt
I knew they were distributers and not involved in direct sales, but when I couldn't turn up any information regarding sales for the variety I decided to check with them and that's when I found it wasn't listed in their offerings.
The page here lists Bejo as the licensee for the variety. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/pro...ses/index.html
I know I can possibly get material from NCSU with a MTA or similar agreement but I was curious as to why something that sounds so promising hasn't come onto the market after the announcements in 2010. Considering how many growers have problems with late blight in particular.
I'll wait to see if Fusion weighs in. |
Mountain Merit is not the only large one with ph2 and ph3 genes/
Here's what has happened in the past with Bejo; they just have had problems with F1 seed production with others and if I had to guess I'd say that's the problem now.
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=16774
I think there was one person here at Tville, I ran across the thread, who did get seeds from a Bejo rep but of course he was in no position to share with others b'c I'm sure not many seeds were sent.
If I could find that thread again, well I think you can by doing a search here for posts with Mountain Merit and I'm pretty sure that thread will pop up.