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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 14, 2017 13:15:11 GMT -5
My Tomato breeding patch is doing interesting. None of the Galapagos tomatoes are producing fruits except for one that might not be pure that i started indoors and planted in a different spot. Still has tiny orange fruits which aren't bad. I'd call it a micro orange cherry tomato haha.
The main F1 hybrid pennellii plant is absolutely monsterous! I need to take a new picture of it at some point. Lots of fruits though. Hopefully each fruit will have lots of viable seeds. Not ripe yet. will take a picture of the fruits when one gets ripe. They are generally in clusters of 5. The shape of the fruit looks like Solanum pennellii fruit photos but these i imagine are larger and theoretically should ripen to yellow or orange instead of green.
I have some habrochaites and peruvianum flowering together now so hopefully they are cross compatible. The large solanum peruvianum plant still has not set any fruit because i guess up till now no compatible pollen has been available. Hopefully that will change with the other peruvium plant flowering and two habrochaites plants.
The three rows of direct seeded tomatoes are growing well and the plants have rapidly caught up in size. One has flowers. So i expect to get some fruits from at least some of them before the season is over.
The pennellii hybrid plant has some fairly large flowers which i like. The habrochaites has rather large connected flowers too so i can see why joseph used it in his crosses to get recombinant semi-domestic large flowers.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 14, 2017 21:28:38 GMT -5
I planted about a dozen Solanum chilense wild tomatoes into my main field. They died. I have one plant still surviving in a different field. I wonder if it is like S. pennellii, and absorbs moisture through the leaves? It gets sprayed with water about once or twice a day.
Last year, S. pennellii died when planted into the field. This year it is flowering while growing in the greenhouse, with once or twice a day spraying of the leaves.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 14, 2017 23:00:28 GMT -5
Nice! I have a clump ( thinned to 4 plants) of late planted Solanum chilense doing nicely planted outside. Hasnt flowered yet. Seems to be doing well. My pure S. Pennellii seedling died early on. I think the soil was to blame i think i needed more sand in the soil. Wishing you success with those!
The accession with the fruits with blue lines on them are doing well and they have Solanum chilense ancestry. Perhaps they will be compatible with the s. chilense pollen when they finally do bloom. They have the Aft gene but the fruits are only slighty blueish. Definitley not like the OSU Blue tomatoes. But hey maybe these ones will taste better. Maybe one of those other Anthocyanin genes has tight linkage to some genetic drag for poor taste that this line might lack.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Sept 19, 2017 2:08:35 GMT -5
Got some tomatoes this year. The direct seeding didn't do that great, but i will save seeds regardless. Enough to continue for some breeding projects. The one with the AFT gene was the most productive for me this year. It also was a dwarf/determinate type which was interesting. Purple-ish on top, but not a blue tomato. Left to right top to bottom: Orange Peach (tasted like fruity flowers sorta-bland. NOT fuzzy like i hoped), small clump of Solanum peruvianum fruits and/or Solanum habrochaites. (More fruits on plants thanks to the native bees!), 2 sets of two unknown red tomatoes from direct seeding, clump of tasty supposedly galapagos cheesmaniae tomatoes (i think they are actually a cross with a domestic, worth keeping though!), large unknown red, red-stripy tomato (Joseph's Wild Cross 5 Zebra??), clump of tiny red S. pimpinellifolium, small clump of true tiny fuzzy orange S. galapagense fruits. Brown Anasazi (still my best tasting tomato), AFT tomatoes, and finally a clump of F1 fruits of Solanum pennelli-domestic hybrid. Plenty of seed for F2 generation!!! 20170914_182324 by Andrew Barney, on Flickr 1503518569470 by Andrew Barney, on Flickr
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