Anyone grow heirloom tomaccoes?

it cools off way before they are ripe, mostly, so I gave up and stay with the short season Earlies.

I inherited some that have been in the family forever.

Sunday, November 16, 2003 http://www.abqjournal.com/shock/110279shock11-16-03.htm

Fresh From 'Simpsons,' Tomacco Becomes a Reality

By Leanne Potts
Of the Journal

Once again, reality has imitated "The Simpsons." Last year the Albuquerque Dukes became the Albuquerque Isotopes after a 2001 episode of the show depicted Homer Simpson protecting his beloved triple-A baseball team the Springfield Isotopes from the paws of an unnamed, franchise-thievin' Albuquerque mayor. Homer spoke, and we listened.

Now a "Simpsons" fan in Oregon has crossed a tomato plant with a tobacco plant to create a new bit of weirdo flora he calls a tomacco (pronounced tuh-MACK-o). His inspiration: a 1999 episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer gets rich by creating a tomato-tobacco hybrid that tastes nasty but is wildly addictive.

"I knew it was scientifically possible," said Rob Baur, tomacco creator and an operations analyst for a wastewater treatment plant. "I thought, 'What the heck, let's try it and see what happens.' "

He also remembered reading about a real-life 1959 experiment when he was in a graduate chemistry class at Western Washington University, in which researchers successfully crossed a tomato plant with tobacco.

Baur grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco roots and, doh!, he had a real-life tomacco. rest at link