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Brannar 3 Way (F4) Tomato

This is a cross between Brandywine Tomato and NAR Tomato. Bill Jeffers of Indiana did the original cross and sent them out to a few select growers. These are a (f4) selection now and the seed packs will have the smaller tomatoes or the bigger ones or both. Please watch our YouTube video on Brannar 3 Way (F4) Tomato to see both sizes in our double review. The seeds got mixed up due to having help over the summer with picking and seeding. They both are a mid-season variety with regular leaves. Also, both are indeterminate plants, and they are excellent producers too. So be sure to stake your plants well. One will create smaller globe shaped tomatoes that seem crack and disease resistant. The other produces these larger beefsteak tomatoes. Both of them have a great old-timey flavor to them. They can range in weight from 6 oz up to 16 oz, depending on which size you get. These fruits could be used for slicing, fresh eating, sauces, and garnishes. If you like tomatoes with an old-timey flavor, be sure to check out John Henry Tomato.

Added notes from Bill Jeffers – Brannar 3-way update: Actually the pedigree is as follows: (Brandywine, pink x Neves Azorean Red) x Bolseno Brandywine x Neves Azorean Red produced 2 excellent segregants, Dixiewine and Texwine. So, I took Texwine and crossed it to Bolseno F1 hybrid, an indeterminate Italian cultivar with great heat set capacity and some disease resistances pertinent to hot climates and sandy soils. Bolseno F1 no longer is available. So, back around 2012, I distributed several early generation, unstable seeds via Marianna’s Heirloom Tomatoes as a “grow your own heirloom” with the idea that the gardener would eventually stabilize a unique variety, and give a unique name. With “Brannar 3-way” F3 there were the various possibilities of small to medium round salad tomatoes up to 1-pound beefsteaks, pink or red, regular leaf of potato leaf, and some with the unique NAR leaf shapes and short internode spacing. However, this particular cross breed has not been widely grown.