'Red Ruby' Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum Origin: Cardondale, Colorado Improvement status: Cultivar Seeds per packet: ~20 Germination tested 08/2024: 96% Life cycle: Annual Casey Piscura is a talented organic vegetable breeder and production farmer in Carbondale, Colorado. We are very excited to be offering four of his tomatoes that he has put through an extensive and rigorous selection process. This one contains the "blue" genes introduced into the tomato genepool by the great public plant breeders of Oregon State University (by crossing tomatoes with a wild Galapagos tomato species).From Casey: "These cherry tomatoes are beautiful and productive! Large, crack-free cherry tomatoes with the darkest anthocyanin pigmentation and amazing flavor. Heirloom quality flavor (or better) but with much better productivity. Wild Mountain Seeds in Carbondale, CO at 6400’ has been using selection pressures such as frost, drought and late blight to find superior heirloom plants with hybrid vigor. Through this intense se