Saturday, March 16, 2013

KBX


The potato leaf version of Kellogg’s Breakfast; KBX was discovered by Martha Huffard.  Martha describes the tomato as a deep apricot orange beefsteak- medium sized ranging between 12-18 ounces, having nice balance of both acid and sweet taste.

The story behind KBX is that Mary had purchased Kellogg’s Breakfast seed from a supplier in California back in 2002.  When she grew the seeds out she noticed half where potato leaf and half regular leaf.  So she decided to grow out six of the potato leaf plants along with the regular leaf plants. 

To her surprise the potato leaf plants grew noticeably healthier with a heavier fruit set.  Now prior to this there was no known orange potato leaf, so there was speculation that the fruit would be pink, but on the contrary a beautiful deep orange tomato was formed.

Now KBX has successfully been grown out and distributed to several growers across the country and Germany.

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