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Old December 7, 2010   #10
carolyn137
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I grew sun gold and sun sugar side by side years ago and now all I grow is sun sugar. Lets say that I will never have a tomato garden without sunsugar. For reasons that I cannot remember the sun gold did not impress me. But now I see in a catalogue someone is selling sungold "select", how knew. I also grow tommy toe "yellow" That is one beautiful yellow cherry tomato.
I also save my seeds because 99% of all my tomatoes are heirlooms and I forgot that sunsugar is an F1 hybrid but I have been saving sunsugar seeds for 4 years now. It may not have the super duper vigor or have the extra sweetness as the F1 hybrid but it is sweet enough and pretty enough for me and when the frost hits the plant is over 6 feet tall.
When you refer to a sungold select I think you're referring to the several OP versions of Sungold F1 that Reinhard Kraft in Germany has developed. There's:

Sungold Select
Sungold Select II
Big Sungold
Big Sungold Select

it's Sungold Select II that Baker Creek offers but in the blurb they say that some plants willl have red fruited plants which means what they're offering is not stable, as the original was.

I offered Big Sungold Select, seeds from Reinhard in 2009 years ago, in my seed offer here this past Spring and there's a thread here just for that variety that's titled Big Sungold Select and you can use the search feature to find it if you're interested.

I haven't grown Sunsugar F1 but have been pleased with Sungold F1 for just taste alone and not much splitting here except after heavy rain when lots of fruits of many varieties also can split.
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