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Dit is een pasta-tomaat. Dit zijn doorgaans nogal tamelijk droge tomaten die meestal gebruikt worden voor (pasta)saus, soep of om te drogen. De exacte naam is moeilijk te geven, er bestaan namelijk zo'n 3000 heirloom soorten en een 10.000 tomatenvariëteiten. Op uw vraag of het een heirloomtomaat is moet ik u dus ook het antwoord schuldig blijven.
Wat de definitie heirloom tomaat betreft heb ik het volgende gevonden.
What Is an Heirloom Tomato?
Heirloom- An heirloom is generally considered to be a variety that has been passed down, through several generations of a family because of it's valued characteristics. Since 'heirloom' varieties have become popular in the past few years there have been liberties taken with the use of this term for commercial purposes. Heirloom tomato experts, Craig LeHoullier and Carolyn Male, Ph.D. have classified down heirlooms into four categories:
1. Commercial Heirlooms: Open-pollinated varieties introduced before 1940.
2. Family Heirlooms: Seeds that have been passed down for several generations through a family.
3. Created Heirlooms: Crossing two known parents (either two heirlooms or an heirloom and a hybrid) and dehybridizing the resulting seeds for how ever many years/generations it takes to eliminate the undesirable characteristics and stabilize the desired characteristics, perhaps as many as 8 years or more.
4. Mystery Heirlooms: Varieties that are a product of natural cross-pollination of other heirloom varieties.
(Note: All heirloom varieties are open-pollinated but not all open-pollinated varieties are heirloom varieties.)
open-pollinated = niet-hybride
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