Stupice

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Stupice
Maturity	early
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	potato
Fruit color	red
Fruit shape	round
Fruit size	small
Fruit type	salad

Contents 1 B.C KO T 2 TX GU R 3 B.C GI K 4 CA CA N 5 Seed Availability

B.C KO T

Compact indet., 4' plant, potato leaf, high yield of small red round fruits, 1-2 oz, very good flavor for such an early tomato, sweet and tangy. Very early. In the perfect spring/summer of 2009, I got the first ripe fruit on June 16 from the plants I started from seed on February 4 (132 days from seed, 50 days from transplant). In the less then ideal summers, I was getting first ripe fruits in early July, which is a month or month and a half ahead of other tomato varieties. My favorite early tomato.

Seed Source:

1. West Coast Seeds 04

2. Seed Savers Exchange 11

Year: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)

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TX GU R

52 days, indet., potato leaf, superior taste and productivity, cold tolerant, personal favorite, hails from Morzuich section of Czech Rebublic.

Source 

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Location: Pasadena, Texas

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B.C GI K

60 days, potato leaf indeterminate, approximately 3.5-4' in height. Very heavy yields, even in hot and humid weather. Small to medium sized fruit, about 4 oz in weight. Very good flavour, especially for such an early variety. No cracking or blossom end rot, very hardy tomato.

Source 

Meighan, Vancouver, BC, 2006 / My own saved seed.

Year: 2007, 2008, 2009

Location: Nelson, BC, canada

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CA CA N

The first fruit was harvested 55 days. The plants are potato leafed, make a lot of foliage and only grow to three to four feet. It gives small fruit that range from 2 to 3 ounces. It has one of the best flavors in the world, tangy and sweet; better than I expected for an early tomato. I did not get any deformed fruit besides a few that catfaced when it got over one hundred degrees. However, only a few blossoms dropped in those hot and humid days. One of the most hardy varieties I have ever seen, it survived the heat and survived until the first frost and made a few more fruit in fifty degree weather. I did three plants, one staked and pruned, one in a fifteen gallon pot with a cage that was only pruned a little bit and one that was allowed to sprawl with no cage. The staked one did not produce nearly as much as the other two, and I saw no difference in size, so let them make lots of leaves! They will reward you for it. I have heard that it comes from the former Czechoslovakia and was one of four varieties sent to the U.S. to be kept from the Soviets.

Source 2010 

Bountiful Gardens Seeds, Willits, California 2010

Source 2011 

My own saved seeds

Location: San Jose, California

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History

• An heirloom tomato from Czechoslovakia.
• According to the founder of Abundant Life Seed Foundation Forest Shomer of Port Townsend, Milan Sodomka sent him some seeds in March 1976, which included Stupice. Please visit [1] to read the letter that Milan Sodomka sent to Forest Shomer.
• First offered commercially by Abundant Life Foundation (now Abundant Life Seeds ).
• By 1986, it was already listed in the Seed Savers Exchanged yearbook by nine SSE members, which tells a lot about its popularity back then, and it continues to be a very popular tomato in North America.
• One of the 100 heirloom tomatoes noted in Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".

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Similar (early) varieties

• Glacier
• Kotlas
• Kimberly
• Bloody Butcher
• Imur Prior Beta
• Matina

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors (Catalog)	Seed Savers Yearbook (listings)	Seeds of Diversity - Member Seed Directory
2012	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes of Airdrie Double Helix Farms Heritage Tomato Seed Pinetree Seeds Seed Savers Exchange The Sample Seed Shop Tomato Growers Supply	.	.
2011	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - sold out for 2011 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes of Airdrie Full Circle Seeds Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Heritage Harvest Seed - new Heritage Tomato Seed - new Knapp's Fresh Vegies Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange Snow Seed * Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Solana Seeds Terroir Seeds (former Underwood Gardens) - new The Sample Seed Shop Territorial Seed Company Tomato Growers Supply * Tomatofest Trade Winds Fruit Two Wings Farm West Coast Seeds	19	9
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - new Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes of Airdrie Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Knapp's Fresh Vegies Pinetree Seeds Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Solana Seeds The Sample Seed Shop Territorial Seed Company Tomato Growers Supply Tomatofest Two Wings Farm Victory Seed Company	16	10
2009	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes of Airdrie Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Tomatoes Knapp's Fresh Vegies Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Pinetree Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center - out of stock Seed Savers Exchange Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Solana Seeds Territorial Seed Company Tomato Growers Supply Tomatofest Victory Seed Company West Coast Seeds Two Wings Farm	20	.
2008	Heirloom Seeds Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Solana Seeds Territorial Seed Company Tomato Growers Supply Tomatofest Victory Seed Company West Coast Seeds	23	.
2007	Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Sand Hill Preservation Center Seed Savers Exchange Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Solana Seeds Territorial Seed Company Tomato Growers Supply Victory Seed Company West Coast Seeds	21	.

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