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I thought that I'd start a new thread as this digresses from the vernalization subject that this started out on.
I'm very much aware of the problem of tomatoes having several names. I've found Uncle Mark hiding behind at least 4 so far.
If I didn't do any further research and just took the family's word for it,I would be guilty of offering Uncle Mark under the names of Buffington's,Ford Family,Hall Family,Cothran's...etc.I could then offer them all in the SSE yearbook and no one would really know what the true history actually was.I was wondering just this same thing as I was reading the many pages of SSE tomatoes this spring.
For those of you who are just starting to seriously collect heirlooms,you may want to do some research on each 'find' and get a documented trail as far back as possible.You may find that the two varieties that you have are one and the same.
Outside of DNA testing,is there anything that one can do to identify certain varieties? I was hoping that there was some key to tracing it's history in Europe.
As for now,I'll just plant it each year and investigate each rumour of anther big tasty pink 'family' tomato here in West KY.
By the way,it dosen't catface much and the cracking is not as bad as many others that I've tried.I'm speculating that it has adapted to our hot humid summers over the years.If this is so,Carolyn,is this actually the same tomato that Uncle Mark landed here with in 1919,or has it evolved into something else entirely?
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