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Everglades Tomato seed sources?

 
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Hello everyone, I'm new here.

I'm looking for advice about where to buy seeds for Everglades Tomatoes.  I'm looking for plants that grow well in zone 9 hot summers, and I heard everglades tomatoes might be a good option.  I don't know where to get seeds though.

Has anyone who grows these had a good experience with a seller they'd suggest?
 
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Hi Sophia! I want to give you a huge, warm, awkwardly belated welcome to Permies!

Sophia, I hope dearly that you receive this update. I believe this question just slipped by our amazing community of growers likely because this is a somewhat unusual request.  I only just learned what an Everglades tomato is -  an incredibly disease and pest, drought and heat resistant Florida heirloom form of currant tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, supposedly.  Until botanists decide to recategorize it...

Here is a grower who currently sells the wild Everglades Tomato and will also do swaps if someone has something useful:

Wild Everglades Tomato for sale direct from seed grower, lots of culture info on this site, too

Here is another listing for the Wild Everglades tomato from Victory Seeds, but they are currently out:

Victory Seeds - Everglades Tomato

I stumbled upon the Everglades tomato as I was reading more about heat tolerant tomatoes. I am in the desert SW, grew 9 varieties of tomatoes this year and all but one succumbed to humidity-related disease in our unusually humid and rainy summer. My one survivor was Wild Galapagos cherry tomato, which like the Everglades tomato is a different species of tomato than most people grow. (And the Wild Galapagos did great, unaffected by everything nature threw at it.)

This experience inspired me to look up other varieties/species of extremely tough tomatoes and I stumbled upon Everglades as one I had not heard of.  I'd like to continue to add more and more resilient plants to my gardening rotation and hope to add Everglades tomato next year.
 
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Here is another source:

https://www.southernexposure.com/products/everglades-cherry-tomato/
 
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I just saw that, Anne!  I was looking in the SESE catalog and came back to the post to update it.  Good find.  

I notice that SESE doesn't say it's S. pimpinellifolium, and SESE does sell other varieties of currant tomatoes. Hmm.  I wonder if it's the same, or what.  Not that it really matters.  Ultimately, it's all about performance, in my opinion.
 
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I am pretty sure I have see a discussion here on the forum about these wild tomatoes though I have not looked for the discussion.
 
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