Organic Brandywise F1 Tomato
Description
Finally, a juicy red slicing tomato full of disease resistance and flavor!
Organic Brandywise Tomato pairs the rich heirloom flavor of Brandywine with Cornell’s cutting-edge resistance to Late Blight, Early Blight, and Septoria Leaf Spot. Best of both worlds, indeed!
The whole story: Whether you hope to harvest ten or ten thousand tomatoes, diseases like Late Blight, Early Blight, and Septoria Leaf Spot are affecting your abundance every season here in the Northeast. Though many cultural practices can reduce the spread of disease (like growing under plastic and watering soil rather than leaves), sowing seeds with natural genetic resistance is the single greatest thing you can do to increase your success, whether you are an organic or conventional grower. Martha Mutschler-Chu develops such tomatoes at Cornell University.
Brandywise is our favorite of Martha’s tomatoes, one of her triple-resistant lines crossed with the quintessential heirloom tomato ‘Brandywine.’ Indeed, Brandywise is the best of both worlds: succulent flavor and resistance to Light Blight and Septoria as well as Early Blight tolerance.
Enjoy! And if you’re looking for other disease-resistant tomatoes, we have four that are resistant to Late Blight, Early Blight, and Septoria Leaf Spot: Brandywise, Summer Sweetheart, Chiapas, and Coyote.
Grow your tomato and eat it, too!
Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,
& the whole Fruition Crew
Pat LaPoint –
This is my main tomato crop – it never disappoints, it will always be my favorite. Have not had a trace of late blight since I began planting it.
Michael –
Planted these last year (2021) and will again. We’ve had serious early blight issues in the past, but these survived to give a decent crop of delicious fruit. Nevertheless, the plants eventually succumbed to blight, limiting the crop. My reading of Cornell resources suggests that the blight resistance is limited to the fruit, while leaves and stems are still susceptible. I would have given 5 stars but felt this fact should have been clarified. This year I’ll take more care to treat for blight despite the resistance.
Joe (verified owner) –
First year trying this variety. Started seeds early inside. Plants grew fantastic to a height of two feet. Within one week all the plants have developed an issue where the leaves turn tan then brown. When they first turn tan they almost appear translucent.