Details

• Open-Pollinated
• Type: indeterminate
• Shape: round slicer or salad tomato
• Color: golden yellow
• Maturity: 70-75 days
  • 2010: 63 days to 1st harvest
  • 2011: 84-91 days to 1st harvest
  • 2012: 84 days to 1st harvest
  • 2013: 49 days to 1st harvest
• Size: small; “4-6 oz”; “3-5 oz”
  • 2009: too small for my liking; don’t think any were bigger than an ounce or two
  • 2010, 2011, 2012: 0.75 oz
  • 2013: 1 oz
• Yield: “productive”
  • 2009: good production
  • 2010: 52 tomatoes, 2.5 lbs per plant
  • 2011: 46 tomatoes, 2.25 lbs per plant
  • 2012: 5 tomatoes, 4 oz
  • 2013: 14 tomatoes, 13 oz
• Taste: “delicious, juicy”
• Disease Resistance:
  • susceptible to wilts (Fusarium, Verticillium, & bacterial wilt)
  • susceptible to root-knot nematode
  • susceptible to curly top virus
  • thin skinned, susceptible to cracking
  • susceptible to bacterial speck or spot (don’t know which one it got)

Notes:

• Seeds of Change: “Salad tomato from an old British seed company”

Sources: (where to buy)

• Seeds of Change

Results from My Garden:

• 2009: New addition from Seeds of Change in my 2009 garden: proved to be a bit too small for my tastes. Good flavor, though. Prone to cracking & spots. Produced quite a lot of fruit
• 2010: No cracking this year! I think they were just getting too much water last year. They are a reliable producer – every day there are 5-10 ready to eat. As an appetizer, they were the guests’ favorite little tomato! Fusarium made its appearance this year; one or both of the Yellow Perfection plants got it
• 2012: Both died by early July; planted extra one in mid-July, but it was probably too late in the season to put out
• 2013: started 2 plants from seed; planted them both, but one was hit hard with curly top virus in early July, so I yanked it. The one survivor was a very poor producer – found out it had root-knot nematodes when I yanked it at the end of the season; it also had a wilt
• 2014 grafting attempt: two attempts failed. The first attempt failed because the scion popped right off the rootstock (too much water pressure from rootstock?). The second attempt failed due to wilt then rot at the graft (too warm? non-sterile cut?)

SEASON	SOURCE	DATES	SPACING	PLANTS	MATURITY	YIELD PER PLANT		AVG SIZE	DISEASE
2009	SoC seeds	3/5 > 4/23 > 5/7	12×18″	2	no records kept, but they were smaller than seed packet states				cracking (too much water) & spots (?)
2010	SoC seeds	3/5 > 4/16 > 5/14	18×20″	2	69 days	53	2.4 lbs	0.7 oz	fusarium wilt; no cracking
2011	SoC seeds	3/5 > 4/2 > 4/23	18×24″	2	95 days	47	2.2 lbs	0.8 oz
2012	SoC seeds	3/5 > 3/26 > 4/16	18×24″	2	62 days	5	4 oz	0.8 oz	some kind of wilt (bacterial?) both dead by mid July
2013	SoC seeds	3/5 > 4/2 > 5/21	24″	2-1=1	56 days	14	0.8 lbs	1 oz	RKN, CTV and wilt (?)
2014	SoC seeds	3/8 > 4/15 > 5/6 & 5/15	21-24″	2-2=0	59 days	43	2.6 lbs	1 oz	V or F wilt (both dead by mid-Sep)