Porter’s Pride
$2.50
- Grown, sold, and described by Bunny Hop Seeds
- Plant growth: indeterminate
- Leaf type: regular leaf
- Time to maturity: midseason
- Approx. number of seeds per pack: 15+
- Germination tested after Hot Water Seed Treatment for Fungal and Bacterial Diseases
“Porter’s Pride Improved,” also possibly known as Porter’s Pride, is one of those varieties that many people grow because it does so well in the heat…and consequently variations in color and shape and names exist. From what I have read, the original Porter tomato was produced by a “Texas seedman” and then introduced by Porter & Sons Seed Company in Texas. This was a small pink plum fruit. Folks liked it, grew it, and saved local strains with possible bee crosses (as we do). Thus we now have Porter Improved, Porter’s Pride, Porter’s Dark Cherry, and Charles Herring Strain. Somehow in this evolution, there appeared round fruits. I have read of both pink and red round fruits called Porter’s Pride. What I grew this season were pink round fruits. The first fruits of the season were more like cocktail-sized tomatoes rather than cherries. As the plants fatigued (as they always do) from fighting the wretched growing conditions here, the fruits eventually sized down to very large cherries. The flavor was what many describe as a “good old-fashioned tomato taste,” meaning perhaps a strong acid with balanced sugar that stands up to other flavors in a mixed greens salad with arugula and peppery mustard leaves, or a bacon sammich, or other fresh and cooked applications. The original Porter’s Pride (red round small salad) was said to have resistance to a resistance to Alternaria Stem Canker, Verticillium, and Fusarium Race 1. I cannot verify this; however, I can say that my plants did not have any of these diseases and did maintain vigor and productivity into the midsummer heat.
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