{"id":7328,"date":"2015-03-24T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2015-01-24T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:26:30","slug":"better-disease-resistance-with-mountain-tomato-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/03\/24\/better-disease-resistance-with-mountain-tomato-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Disease Resistance With Mountain Tomato Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Mountain Pride’ Tomato (Photo credit: Dr. Randy Gardner, retired NCSU Plant Breeder)<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomatoes are attacked by several diseases and insects. Most serious diseases are early blight, spotted wilt virus (TSWV), fusarium wilt (FW), Stemphylium Gray Leaf Spot (St), Alternaria leaf spot (A), and root knot nematodes (N).<\/p>\n

Major insect problems are aphids, thrips, stink bugs, blister beetles, fruit worms, horn worms, leaf miners, fruit flies, and white flies.<\/p>\n

Some problems are nutritionally- or environmentally-caused including blossom end rot (low soil calcium, lack of soil moisture), fruit cracking (excess water and high temperatures), sudden wilting (root damage from cultivation or drowning), blossom drop (drastic temperature changes, poor nutrition), and sunscald to fruit (loss of foliage from disease).<\/p>\n

The most impressive series of disease resistant tomato varieties has come from the breeding program of Dr. Randy Gardner at the Mountain Crops Research Station in Western North Carolina. Over a past twenty years, he has released over a dozen very productive, great tasting tomato varieties starting with Mountain Pride. Here are nine in the series:<\/p>\n

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  • Mountain Pride – crack resistant large red fruits; VFFASt resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain True – indeterminate late\u00a0blight, resistant to early blight and fruit cracking; sweet tasting 2 oz. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 campari tomato<\/li>\n
  • Mountain\u00a0Fresh – determinate, late producing; large 10 oz. fruits with red skin and\u00a0red flesh color; VFFN \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Majesty \u2013 large 3 \u00bd inch crimson fruit; FW,\u00a0VW, and TSWV resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Glory – high yielding 12\u00a0oz. red globe shaped fruits;\u00a0VFF and TSWV resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Spring – determinate, bush-type tomato; large 9 oz. fruits; VF resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Magic – indeterminate, highly disease resistant; 2 oz. fruits; VF resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Supreme – determinate, mid-season, red\u00a0globe; VF, early blight resistant<\/li>\n
  • Mountain\u00a0Belle – high yielding small bright red cherry tomatoes; crack resistant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Code Symbols meaning:<\/b>
    \nV<\/b>\u00a0 Verticillium wilt
    \nF<\/b>\u00a0 Fusarium wilt
    \nFF <\/b>\u00a0Fusarium, races 1 and 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0 Tomatoes are attacked by several diseases and insects. Most serious diseases are early blight, spotted wilt virus (TSWV), fusarium wilt (FW), Stemphylium Gray Leaf Spot (St), Alternaria leaf spot (A), and root knot nematodes (N). Major insect problems are aphids, thrips, stink bugs, blister beetles, fruit worms, horn worms, leaf miners, fruit flies, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[650,674,645,1144,599,816,1059,729,777,630,1028,870,754,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}