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Old March 30, 2020   #1
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Picked some Terhune tomatoes this morning. Thanks to MeckTom for sending me the seeds. First year growing this variety. It is a "midseason" tomato with potato leaf. Plant is very productive. Fruit is rosy pink when full ripe. It is not a good keeper. It tends to get soft very fast and mussy. Best to eat when picked firm and rosy pink. Has good balance of tomato flavor...more mild to sweet taste than acidic. Had a few leaf yellowing but nothing serious. Will save seeds for next season. I think the plant would do much better in cooler climate.
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Old March 30, 2020   #2
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Grow it here and love Terhune.
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My favorite pink beefsteak!
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You MUST try Caspian Pink! It is much better than Terhune. Just my opinion.
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I agree with you Douglas!
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You MUST try Caspian Pink! It is much better than Terhune. Just my opinion.
Tried it- definitely not better here.
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I have 4 blocks of Terhune, we'll see how it does. I'm only 30 mi or so from Kath. How is this pronounced? TUR HOON ?
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The reason it may do better up north is because it was found on an old homestead near Minneapolis. I believe I was 1 of the first to have seeds from darwinslair who found it. The following year he gave it to Carolyn for her seed offer. It was named after the family of the homestead. TomatoBase has the full story.

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Okay, read that, thanks. Similar/possibly Pink Brandywine? Brandywine doesn't usually set well for me (always tried it in backyard CRW cages), and ends up with a lot of shoulder rot/waste. Taste great but low production for me, and I consider Brandywine about as local as it gets. But if the seedlings are strong I will probably plant a few. Last Brandywine try was probably 2016.

Carol, are you growing Terhune this year? Is it a regular for you?
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I grew it for 2-3 years and it never did well and flavor did not impress me. The seeds I got were from one of Carolyn's offers. And yes, they were named for the couple that bought the home where they were found.

The story is that the old woman who owned the house never got to harvest her last crop and there were still tomatoes hanging on the vines in the yard when it went on the house went on the market. The real estate agent picked one, saved the seeds and grew it out, then named it after the buyers.
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I've grown it several times and it does decent for me. Not this year tho as I have to rotate what gets grown depending on what I need for new seed.

If you have problems with Brandywine, have you ever tried 1 of the named Brandywines ?? Personally the no name Brandywines do terrible for me. But when I tried Sudduth, it was like nite and day. So now I only grow 1 of the named Brandywines.

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[QUOTE=Wi-sunflower;755488

If you have problems with Brandywine, have you ever tried 1 of the named Brandywines ?? Personally the no name Brandywines do terrible for me. But when I tried Sudduth, it was like nite and day. So now I only grow 1 of the named Brandywines.

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My first attempt at Brandywine was from seeds purchased from the late Chuck Wyatt and it was Sudduth. He also sent me a few seeds of Joyce's strain. I was so new to growing from seed I could not tell the difference, but both did very well for me. I agree that the "no name" Brandies are not worth the effort. Terhune must be in the Brandywine family somehow.
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I think my original Brandywine Sudduth seeds came from Carol, and I have had good luck with them, even though they ripen closer to the end of the season here. I also like similar pink potato leafed like Terhune, Earl's Faux, Tiffen Mennonite, and Rebel Yell.
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Well...I guess the BW seed I have always used was saved originally from a Bonnie plant. I tried a BW Sudduth from a swap seed pack, maybe 2-3 years back, but they didn't germinate.

Hopefully these Terhune come up and do well. I passed along some of these seeds over the winter, someone out west wanted to try them as well.
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I have PLENTY of Terhune tomato seeds if anyone would like to try them.
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