I grew some tomatoes resistant to Fusarium Wilt race 2 (FF) this year and I still see some signs of disease.
I’m not sure which race I have in the soil, so I started with those resistant to race 1 or race 2 to see what happened.
Does anybody have Fusarium in their soil? Have you grown any tomatoes resistant to race 3 (FFF)?
What can you recommend?
Try Cherokee Purple if you didn’t before, it,s resistant to Fusarium Wilt race 3 and more fungal disseases, easy to find in Europe and a heirloom, that means open polinization, you can save seed every year and have plants all years, apart to be one of the tastier tomatoes.
I am trying with very good results other variety, no actual name know, I bought the plant in a shop/nursery and they sell under a fake name to hide the actual name and ensure to continue with the business next years …
Except a few videos on internet , there is not more info , tell call MAX FUERTE
My plan is to try to germinate and check if it fruit.
That is the most common problem for the high fungal resistant varieties, most are F1 hybrids and difficult to find for us as home growers , also I am not willing to be buying seed every year … I think is not the home growers model.
However If I am lucky and get fruits, of course I will keep a lot of people informed because I am atonished about its resistant and productivity, big size and good taste( at least much better than supermarket tomatoes)
I have 1 Picture in my phone , I took more or less 2 weeks ago, take in consideration I live in wetter Spain area, for example in June and July only 3 days per mouth we saw the sun , the rest raining or cloudy
Really compared with the rest of varieties I have planted this year this one is the best that “survived” and is giving me tomatoes , the rest are almost died or delay a lot the crop and reduced crop compared to MAX FUERTE , even most of my neighbors lost their plants for fungal deseases …
Best Regards
I have grown Cherokee Purple and I love them but they split badly.
Heirlooms aren’t resistant to many diseases. Think about it this way, the Cherokee Purple is pre-1890 and the Fusarium Wilt race 3 mutation didn’t exist until a 100 years later, so it can’t be resistant.
I know Cornell says it is but that’s obviously wrong since only an hybrid can be resistant to race 3
Hi Hugh,
I think you are mixing concepts, that the mutation was not 100 years later or I don’t care if it’s 300 or 3 years, it has nothing to do with whether a hybrid or non-hybrid variety has or doesn’t have resistance in its genes,
It is one thing that the genetics of the fungus has mutated and the mutation is more aggressive,
And another thing is that the genetics of tomatoes are resistant to that mutation,
What I don’t think has happened is that both the fungus and the tomato have mutated at the same time 
In fact, the resistance of hybrids is obtained from a non-hybrid variety, as far as I know, being hybrid does not mean that the genes have been manipulated in the laboratory, they always talk about crosses between two varieties through sexual reproduction,
Or that we have accessed alien technology (exaggerating a little) from a certain year after the fungus will mutate, nor are transgenic techniques used to put our feet back on the ground, they are only crosses by sexual reproduction, then those resistance genes are there from who knows when, to say something they may have been there all their lives or since 1500 BC for example.
Another thing is that in ancient varieties there is no laboratory analysis, so we cannot categorize them even Fol: 1,2,3
In rainy areas, the split or at least micro split is something you have to count on,
To minimize the split, planting in high beds and drip irrigation help a lot to minimize it, the issue is that it has a constant humidity as much as possible.
On my list to plant next year, you may find it interesting:
Best Regards
