swampr
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Post by swampr on Jun 29, 2011 19:22:26 GMT -5
I am interested in hearing about experiences with crossing brandywine types with interspecific hi flavor cherry or saladette-type tomatoes such as sungold. is it reasonable to think that the complex fruity flavors found in the interspecies crosses can be migrated into a larger tomato by an amateur breeder?
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Post by jcm05 on Jun 30, 2011 12:33:38 GMT -5
I assume by "Brandywine Type" you mean large pink beefsteak tomatoes. The only brandywine "type" I use in crosses is Brandywine sudduth. The only one worth using IMO as I have not found a similar large pink with comparable flavor. I'm guessing that you are singling out the "amateur breeder" in regards to the limited amount of growout population? I think its just a crapshoot as far as all tomato breeding goes but using parents with superior flavor increase your odds of capturing lines worth pursuing in regards to flavor. I have 2 F1 hybrids growing this year using brandywine as a parent although I have many other possibles that I have done in the past couple weeks. Of the two F1s growing now, one has a large fruited parent and the second has a striped, small saladette-sized parent with the "at" gene. The flavor of that one is good and somewhat unique however the growth habit and production of the plant are not ideal.  |
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Post by swampr on Jul 6, 2011 10:45:01 GMT -5
From Maf in the ToW Wow thread. Apparently Wow is the product of one such cross. Looks healthy. What is it, an OP cross of Brandywine and Sungold, I think I read somewhere? |
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Post by swampr on Jul 7, 2011 15:14:21 GMT -5
another benefit would be to introduce some of the interspecific cherry vigor into some of the less disease-resistant brandywine lines. I have had many years when prudens purple produced the best tasting fruit I harvested, but the vines did not produce for a long season.
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