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**carolyn137** · May 26, 2017

There were three varieties bred by Harris Seeds who are based near Rochester,NY, and those three became very popular, especially here in the East. They are

Jet Star F1
Supersonic F1
Moreton Hybrid ( Moreton Farm was the place where they did their breeding work.

I grew all three many times three, the one I liked the best was Supersonic F1.

I'm not going to go into this but briefly, but Harris was bought out by Moran seeds, Harris lost most of their breeders, finally Harris was able to buy their way out of Moran and be independent again. Part of the deal was also that Harris could sell anything that Moran sold.

This goes way back to when I was a kid on our farm and the man from Harris came to our home and asked if dad needed anymore of this or that since Harris also offered lots of other crops,then told dad about the newest tomatoes and other stuff and asked if he wanted a free trial pack to start with or more than that.

Carolyn, who recently got a catalog from Harris, but it isn't the Harris catalog she used to know .Perhaps they have two now, one for commercial growers and one for homegrowers,still,not the catalog she knew.

May 26, 2017	#14
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	There were three varieties bred by Harris Seeds who are based near Rochester,NY, and those three became very popular, especially here in the East. They are Jet Star F1 Supersonic F1 Moreton Hybrid ( Moreton Farm was the place where they did their breeding work. I grew all three many times three, the one I liked the best was Supersonic F1. I'm not going to go into this but briefly, but Harris was bought out by Moran seeds, Harris lost most of their breeders, finally Harris was able to buy their way out of Moran and be independent again. Part of the deal was also that Harris could sell anything that Moran sold. This goes way back to when I was a kid on our farm and the man from Harris came to our home and asked if dad needed anymore of this or that since Harris also offered lots of other crops,then told dad about the newest tomatoes and other stuff and asked if he wanted a free trial pack to start with or more than that. Carolyn, who recently got a catalog from Harris, but it isn't the Harris catalog she used to know .Perhaps they have two now, one for commercial growers and one for homegrowers,still,not the catalog she knew. __________________ Carolyn