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Post by paddymc on Feb 21, 2018 0:45:16 GMT -5
Here’s a few photos from some of my ongoing tomato breeding projects last summer. All of these lines are being selected for eating quality and adaption to colder, short season growing. ( Varigated Potato Leaf x Stripe Big Cheef) x Siberian Tiger F3 Amazing green and white variegated potato leaves.  VBCST FY 15-7 Hippie Zebra x Purple Dragon F4   L? T6-4
Cowlick Brandywine x Sungold F6  CSG FY 6-10 Unreal "tropical" taste Lithium Sunset x Indigo RoseF5  FYM FY 2-3 and 2-5 Hippie Zebra x Purple Dragon (Variegated Leaves) almost certainly a bee cross to (V arigated Potato Leaf x Stripe Big Cheef) F3 Leaf variegation with an additional dark anthocyanin color  HPDV FY 4-11  HPDV FY 4-5 ( Beauty King x Indigo Rose) x GWR WildthymeF4 Amazing taste from this line  AM FY 1-3    BIG FY 3-12
Damascus Steel x Mikado OrangeF4  DM |
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Post by paddymc on Feb 21, 2018 0:48:26 GMT -5
Pink Furry Boar x Ananas NoirF5 Part of an effort at extra long keeping fruit. The skin is kind of “fuzzy”  PFA [( Beauty King x Indigo Rose) x GWR Wildthyme] x ( Damascus Steel x Mikado Orange)  BDM L 26-12 BDM FY 3-7  BDM T18-5E   BDM FY 1-1 ( Ernie’s Plump x Coyote) x ( Ernie’s Plump x Ananas Noir) F3  ECEA L 12-26.5 ( Ernie’s Plump x Ananas Noir) F5  EA L 12-8 ( Lithium Sunset x Pink Boar) x Cherokee Lime StripesF4  LPBCLS FY 9-17  LPBCLS L 9-36, 9-35  LPBCLS T 24-15
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Post by reed on Feb 21, 2018 9:14:40 GMT -5
Wow, those look wonderful.
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Post by richardw on Feb 21, 2018 13:16:08 GMT -5
They do look wonderful alright
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Post by diane on Feb 21, 2018 13:43:49 GMT -5
Colourful, and BIG! You said your conditions are "colder, short season" which makes your results amazing.
Where do you live, and what are your conditions?
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Post by steev on Feb 21, 2018 20:23:46 GMT -5
You've been busy, to great profit.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 22, 2018 14:14:42 GMT -5
paddymc, glad to see you on the forum again. Very nice! And love the colors! I look forward to trying your colorful products someday.
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Post by peppero on Feb 22, 2018 21:44:56 GMT -5
STUNNING, GREAT WORK. IF THEY TASTE AS GOOD AS THEY LOOK,THEN YOU HAVE REALLY ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING.
JON
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Post by paddymc on Feb 24, 2018 0:04:01 GMT -5
Colourful, and BIG! You said your conditions are "colder, short season" which makes your results amazing. Where do you live, and what are your conditions? I live in the mountains of central Idaho. Zone 4B. |
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Post by paddymc on Feb 24, 2018 0:05:20 GMT -5
paddymc, glad to see you on the forum again. Very nice! And love the colors! I look forward to trying your colorful products someday. I'd be happy to send you some seed if you don't mind playing with lines that are still segregating. |
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2018 0:30:11 GMT -5
So you have a short season? I'm also interested in your seed, admitting that I'm a slut for pretty; what might I have of interest to you?
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 24, 2018 1:28:40 GMT -5
The fact that you are growing these in idaho, a similar climate really interests me.
Can you describe each line for pros vs. Cons. What is productivity like? Hardiness of plants? Didn't you have a line that had crazy purple-greenish veins inside? Determinate, indeterminate?
Colorful tomatoes are awesome and so are large tomatoes, but a maladapted tomato that only grows one (large) tomato the whole season is a bust for me. Im getting more picky in what tomatoes i try these days.
P.s. for those interested i just received 10 seeds for the "long john" tomato pear mutant. Think pear tomato but mutated to be extra long. Not sure it has any use, but i have it now.
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Post by paddymc on Feb 25, 2018 18:01:54 GMT -5
The fact that you are growing these in idaho, a similar climate really interests me. Can you describe each line for pros vs. Cons. What is productivity like? Hardiness of plants? Didn't you have a line that had crazy purple-greenish veins inside? Determinate, indeterminate? Colorful tomatoes are awesome and so are large tomatoes, but a maladapted tomato that only grows one (large) tomato the whole season is a bust for me. Im getting more picky in what tomatoes i try these days. P.s. for those interested i just received 10 seeds for the "long john" tomato pear mutant. Think pear tomato but mutated to be extra long. Not sure it has any use, but i have it now. I'm starting to post more detailed information on the above in an individual breeding line format. |
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Post by imgrimmer on Feb 26, 2018 5:19:06 GMT -5
Great work! Do you have issues with late blight? Do you breed for resistency too?
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Post by paddymc on Feb 26, 2018 15:39:47 GMT -5
Great work! Do you have issues with late blight? Do you breed for resistency too? Never had any problems with Late Blight. Generally the frost is the only thing I have to worry about.  The advantages of growing on the margins of "tomato country". So no specific resistance selection. |
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The advantages of growing on the margins of "tomato country".