Québec 1121 is a compact, early, productive paste tomato. This is a great paste tomato for short growing seasons. The productive plants are only 1.5 ft (45 cm).
The tomatoes (50 g – 60 g) are very firm and have deep red interiors.
Québec 1121, also called Doucet’s Plum Producer, was developed by the Québec tomato breeder Roger Doucet and released in 1978. In the 1960s through to the 1980s, Mr Doucet was breeding tomatoes (and other vegetables) at Station Provinciale de Recherches Agricoles in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec (Saint-Hyacinthe Agricultural Research Station in Québec).
See the photo of Mr Doucet with Québec 1121 from a newspaper article that was posted on the www.potagersdantan.com website (a website devoted to Québec heirlooms by the long-time seed saver and historian Michel Richard — unfortunately, as of recently, the website seems to be down).
Another long-time Québec seed saver René Paquet reports Québec 1121’s pedigree is: Canabec, Petomech 11, Trimson and possibly a tomato from Puerto Rico (PI 263726). This pedigree is interesting because ‘Trimson’ is a tomato that has the ‘high-crimson’ gene, which is associated with higher lycopene levels compared to standard red tomatoes. ‘Trimson’ is from the same long-term Canadian breeding program that produced the other ‘high-crimson’ tomatoes we offer — Hi-Crimson, Veepro, Harvestvee. (See our section about ‘High-Crimson’ tomatoes on the website). We aren’t sure if Québec 1121 also includes the ‘high-crimson’ gene.
Doucet developed many tomatoes over his career at Saint-Hyacinthe – including 12 varieties that end in ‘bec’ (e.g. Superbec, Rosabec) – to celebrate that they were bred in Québec.
Our original seed sources were Prairie Garden Seeds (SK) and René Paquet (QC).
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How to Grow Tomatoes? Start seeds indoors 6 weeks before the last frost. Plant seed 5mm (¼ inch) deep. Transplant after the danger of frost has passed/later spring.
