Disambiguating Market Wonder tomatoes
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2025 10:35 pm
In 2014, I got some seeds from wintersown.org labeled Market Wonder. They had the following description:
"Disease-resistant European market tomato, bright red fruits are delicious cooked or eaten fresh, IND, 75 DTM"
When I grew them, they grew big plants very vigorously (I don't know that the overall size was huge, but it was huge pre-transplant, and it wasn't anything like a dwarf post-transplant; I didn't cage them; they kind of grew in heaps). Fruits were about 2 to 2ΒΌ inches in diameter, squarish (they had sides), flat, and red. The flavor was excellent (almost like a very intense Brandywine-like flavor). I wasn't the only one who liked it. The fruits were firm. They had a lot of leaves. It was regular-leaf and indeterminate. I think they got something like Pythium before the transplant, but it didn't bother them afterward. I grew at least three plants (one was a cutting from one of the others). Two of the plants were in very different conditions (both were unideal), but they performed and tasted similarly in both.
Anyway, my question is, which Market Wonder tomato does this sound like?
This one:
* https://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Market_Wonder
Or this one:
* https://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Ita ... ket_Wonder
I don't have a description of the latter, but I'm hoping someone here knows more than I do about it. I believe both varieties were discussed on Tomatoville once.
I did save seeds from it (in 2015).
"Disease-resistant European market tomato, bright red fruits are delicious cooked or eaten fresh, IND, 75 DTM"
When I grew them, they grew big plants very vigorously (I don't know that the overall size was huge, but it was huge pre-transplant, and it wasn't anything like a dwarf post-transplant; I didn't cage them; they kind of grew in heaps). Fruits were about 2 to 2ΒΌ inches in diameter, squarish (they had sides), flat, and red. The flavor was excellent (almost like a very intense Brandywine-like flavor). I wasn't the only one who liked it. The fruits were firm. They had a lot of leaves. It was regular-leaf and indeterminate. I think they got something like Pythium before the transplant, but it didn't bother them afterward. I grew at least three plants (one was a cutting from one of the others). Two of the plants were in very different conditions (both were unideal), but they performed and tasted similarly in both.
Anyway, my question is, which Market Wonder tomato does this sound like?
This one:
* https://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Market_Wonder
Or this one:
* https://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Ita ... ket_Wonder
I don't have a description of the latter, but I'm hoping someone here knows more than I do about it. I believe both varieties were discussed on Tomatoville once.
I did save seeds from it (in 2015).