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4048RO Pruden’s Purple Tomato OG (72 days) Open-pollinated. Ind. We usually cooperate well at Fedco and tolerate each others’ peculiarities except during tomato taste tests. When we compare tomatoes, about which we are all impassioned, tolerance evaporates and remarks are made about “people who have no taste buds,” who “eat yellow tomatoes” and who “put sugar in their sauce.” CR thinks you don’t need Pruden’s if you have Brandywine. Susan and David like Brandywine fine but think Pruden’s tastes better and ripens three weeks earlier in hot seasons. Opinions aside, Pruden’s is early for its size and makes a great sandwich tomato. Vigorous potato-leaf vines yield spreading irregular pink 1 lb. fruit with very few seeds, a silken texture and rich tomato taste, nicely tart with a balanced undertone of sweetness that is neither insipid nor cloying. Maryland grower Brett Grohsgal praises its flavor, productivity and disease resistance. MOFGA-certified.  |