Hello everyone! I like most of you am a seed collector. Many times I take on the hunt for varieties that have not been heard of for some time to try and bring them back to be available to the public.

I have more recently started working on Phil Seneca varieties. Phil seems to be a man who created a lot of feelings among many. I try to separate drama of humans from tomatoes. With that being said, I am looking for a few varieties connected to Phil.

If you have any of these I would love to trade.

I am currently trying to recover:

Prince Charming’s *Bleep*

Animas en el Agua

Lime in the Coconut

Amazing Grapes

Thank you!

I am sometimes slow about replying here. If you would rather email that is okay too.
Samantha @ homegrowninillinois.com remove the spaces after copying.

I have been looking for most of his seeds for many years, unfortunately with no luck.Don't understand why no one at all grows any or have any seeds left.I have Djodah and maybe a few more of the 'common' ones he grew.

@Lotte could you pm me with the ones you have found please?

Sure, give me a day or two.I'll pm you the names.

@Lotte thanks for your quick reply and email.

-Sam

Did you grow some of the Seneca varieties this year?

If you are asking me, I think the only one I grew were Djodah.That one I have grown for some years, I like the color and the fruit.

I grew Gargamel in 2017. I don't know where I got the seeds offhand, but it wasn't directly from the store. It wasn't in ideal conditions and I didn't get much production from it. It probably would have done a lot better with plenty of fertilizer and/or organic matter, without a row of giant blackcurrant bushes a few feet to its west, without lots of other tomatoes sprawling around it.

Oh. I've been calling Gargamel a RIN tomato for years. I read somewhere that it was. However, I just realized that the review on Tatiana's is actually by Phil Seneca himself. He says the shelf life is longer than a RIN tomato and that it has a normal tomato texture. So, that seems to indicate it is not a RIN tomato.

That's really interesting that it has Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum peruvianum in its heritage. My plant was pretty polite, though.