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Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:18 am

Some folks may know, but I am trying to collect and try out as many of the tomatoes that female Polish Breeder, Anna Jankowski. Kozula was the screen name she used on European websites and she named all of her tomatoes Kozula and then a number. (Thank you to @KarenO for the clarification)

Thank you to people who sent seeds to MMMM. Gary did a great job as usual. I am always on the lookout for more :)

Information on her individual crosses as well as pictures and seeds are challenging to find. Just thought others may want to see what the 5 varieties I grew this year looked like. All were true to the descriptions I could find.

If anyone has any information about this breeder or sources they have used to obtain her work I would definitely be interested. These were sure fun to grow, compare and contrast.
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Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:29 pm

@HL2601 Those are beautiful and I'm glad to see that you are saving seed.

The best place that I have found for purchasing Kozula seed is from Croatian Seed Store, Tatjana has two pages of them.

https://croatianseeds-store.com/index.p ... egory_id=0

I know that this company is across the pond but I just received an order from her yesterday without issue. Just email her first and she will send them in a plain brown parcel without the company name on it. I got my seeds in about 10 days.
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Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:47 pm

Wow, great find, Patti!

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Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:10 pm

Being Polish you have no idea how this thrills me!
There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

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Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:05 pm

Another seed company across the pond who carries Kozula varieties, plus other breeders. I don't think they have anything the Croatian Seed Store doesn't have though.

https://www.vertiloom.com/en/tomatoes/b ... na-kozula/

Also @HL2601 , my guess is you've found these threads on The Tomato Garden in your research, but just in case...

https://thetomatogarden.proboards.com/thread/559

https://thetomatogarden.proboards.com/thread/837

credit to GunnarSK@TheTomatoGarden (nice documentation on the Kozula line)

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Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:06 pm

I have been buying seeds here for years. Tatjana is very helpful and a nice person to to business with. Sometimes I get an off type but with the price of her seeds, I let it pass. Her prices are more than reasonable and she has a great selection.
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Sat Sep 18, 2021 5:55 am

I'll be growing Kozula 134 this year. Looking forward to it. I bought from tomatoEden. They have quite a large selection of Kozula tomatoes.

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Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:29 pm

Thank you everyone for all the sites. I am going through and ordering what I don't have. The Kozula tomatoes really are fun to discover!

@Zenbaas I don't have 134 yet! Please let me know how it turns out.

The Croatian seed store has excellent prices. I did buy some from her before and they were spot on with terrific prices!

As you can see I am saving some seeds...thinking possible MMMM?!

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Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:11 am

Some very nice tomatoes in her lot, I particularly like 132, anyone have any ideas as to parentage?

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Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:14 pm

@Whwoz I have seeds for 132. So glad to hear you have grown it and liked it. I will put it at the top for next year along with 179 so far.
Here is what I have found re: 132. info from several places is pieced together...
Kozula132- Zielone Indet., regular leaf. Very interesting color combination, purple and green, with some subtle striping. Fruits are oval, 2-6 oz. Very good flavor. great snacking, fresh salsa, garnish, canning and cooking tomato. It leans to the milder side with some small hints of sugars and acidity in its aftertaste. Vines are prolific and never really budged for diseases. They began to ripen their fruits around 72 days after we transplanted them in the garden. Beautiful bi-color fruits were plum shaped and about 2 inches long. The "varieties" 126-139 have an undisclosed parentage, but inferring from the fact that all dark varieties and "zebras" are from initial Copia crosses ....

So it looks like Copia is in there somehow. :)

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Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:44 pm

Whwoz wrote: Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:11 am Some very nice tomatoes in her lot, I particularly like 132, anyone have any ideas as to parentage?
Look at post #5 in this thread. There are 2 links in it. Click the first tomatogarden link and GunnerSK talks about their breeding.
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Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:49 pm

@HL2601 I have not grown it, indeed I had not heard of this breeder before this thread. I looked at the above links and liked the unusual colour combination and was wondering about the genetic background to try and breed something similar as I have very little chance of getting seed from the sources mentioned in Down Under.

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Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:54 pm

@Whwoz does MMMM make its way to you?

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Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:31 pm

@HL2601 perhaps not legally is the best way to put it.

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Wed Sep 22, 2021 5:07 pm

A mini mater mailing made it there a few days ago. :D

I was almost to the point of desperation, by hiding seeds on the outside of the envelope under an address label.

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Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:31 pm

Oh my Tormato! I admire your crafty spirit!

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Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:26 am

Dale at Delectation of Tomatoes has a nice selection of Kozula seeds. He is a great guy to do business with too. Just email your selections and he gets right back to you. He even includes a pack of free seeds.
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