tomato scent - always the same?

loeb · February 12, 2012

I would like to know, if there are tomato cultivars with different scented leaves than usual? This year I'm going to grow 2 currant tomatoes and a "Coyote" that is a wild one I guess.. and I wonder if they smell the same way as "normal" tomatoes. And maybe there are some wild types that smells in other way? I think of the green part of the plant smell, not fruit. I like that scent very much. Maybe I should be breeding for scented tomatoes.. producing more of that scent

frogsleap farm · February 12, 2012

SunGold and SunSugar are two commercial hybrids with a definitely different foliage scent. A little hard to describe, but it is distinctive. The varieties are from different breeding programs, but there must be some common parentage. The unusual scent persists in some progeny from advanced filial generations of crosses with either of these hybrids.

feldon30 · February 13, 2012

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Originally Posted by frogsleap farm

SunGold and SunSugar are two commercial hybrids with a definitely different foliage scent.

At the risk of eliciting the giggle factor, I've always felt that Sungold foliage of a certain recreational or medicinal herb popular in California.

loeb · February 13, 2012

Good to know! I have never seen/eaten both of them, I will add them to my wishlist. I had Sungella last year, I guess this is progeny of Sungold? But nothing special was with foliage scent.

goodwin · February 13, 2012

There was another thread on the same subject. Foliage scent, I think, is another marker you can use when doing crosses.

Any other varieties that smell like Sungold?

loeb · February 14, 2012

Thank you.. very interesting informations in this thread, L. peruvianum like sungold=sweet, and hirsutum +glandalosum = soapy. So it's more like I should collect some wild species to work on the smell of foliage. And search for some strong-smelling cultivars, to work on oils production.. Hard to find informations :/

February 12, 2012	#1
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	tomato scent - always the same? I would like to know, if there are tomato cultivars with different scented leaves than usual? This year I'm going to grow 2 currant tomatoes and a "Coyote" that is a wild one I guess.. and I wonder if they smell the same way as "normal" tomatoes. And maybe there are some wild types that smells in other way? I think of the green part of the plant smell, not fruit. I like that scent very much. Maybe I should be breeding for scented tomatoes.. producing more of that scent

February 14, 2012	#6
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	Thank you.. very interesting informations in this thread, L. peruvianum like sungold=sweet, and hirsutum +glandalosum = soapy. So it's more like I should collect some wild species to work on the smell of foliage. And search for some strong-smelling cultivars, to work on oils production.. Hard to find informations :/ Last edited by loeb; February 14, 2012 at 06:36 AM.

February 12, 2012	#2
frogsleap farm Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 568	SunGold and SunSugar are two commercial hybrids with a definitely different foliage scent. A little hard to describe, but it is distinctive. The varieties are from different breeding programs, but there must be some common parentage. The unusual scent persists in some progeny from advanced filial generations of crosses with either of these hybrids.

February 13, 2012	#4
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	Good to know! I have never seen/eaten both of them, I will add them to my wishlist. I had Sungella last year, I guess this is progeny of Sungold? But nothing special was with foliage scent.

February 13, 2012	#5
goodwin Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Espanola, New Mexico Posts: 606	There was another thread on the same subject. Foliage scent, I think, is another marker you can use when doing crosses. Any other varieties that smell like Sungold?