Disease Resistant Heirloom Tomato Data?

[Daryl]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

Eva Purple Ball and Cherokee Purple tend to put up with foliage diseases better than most. If you have problems with nematodes, Rutgers would be a good choice. Gray Mold tolerance is in Tropic. Burgundy Traveler is an open pollinated variety that has decent foliage disease tolerance and nematode tolerance.

For my conditions in the hot humid southeastern U.S. there are no really good varieties in terms of foliage disease tolerance. I'm working with crosses to wild species to see if I can bring some of their good traits over into a domestic tomato background.

I will very much look forward to seeing what you come up with in your breeding program.

I haven't tried Burgundy Traveler, but I've grown the others. Is Burgundy Traveler similar to Arkansas Traveler but darker? Arkansas Traveler is one of my standbys, as are Cherokee Purple, Rutgers and Sasha's Altai. I didn't grow Rutgers this year for some reason.

[Daryl]

I didn't realize that Agri-Fos was considered biofriendly. I will have to go reread the label. It's been a long time.