tz
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Post by tz on Jun 12, 2010 12:57:27 GMT -5
I'm growing out F2 Lime Green Salad x Green Giant (bee cross). I have 11 potato leaf full size plants, 16 RL dwarfs and 2 PL dwarfs. I'm not sure what to keep and what to toss later on.
Good tasting indeterminant beefsteak dwarfs (PL and RL) will be keepers, along with indeterminant PL beefsteak full size. I'm not sure what to do with the other characteristics that are going to pop up.
yellow vs clear skin
round fruit
determinants
multiflora
What would you keep and why?
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jcm05
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Post by jcm05 on Jun 12, 2010 21:03:51 GMT -5
Hi tz. I'm not sure I follow. Are you growing all 29 of them out? If so, I would keep the best tasting ones. Thats the most important thing to me. True PL rugose dwarves are fairly uncommon so hopefully you get something good out of those two. Maybe with the multiflora trait too like LGS. Good luck and welcome aboard.
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tz
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Post by tz on Jun 12, 2010 21:55:53 GMT -5
Yes, all 29. I saved quite a bit of seed from F1 last year. I figured that a lot of the the full sized PLs would be heterozygous for dwarfs and boost my chances for good tasting PL dwarfs in the F3. They are planted about 16"-18" apart on drop lines, and the dwarfs are between that row and the edge of the plot so I'm fitting about 24 plants into space normally used for 4-6 caged tomatoes.
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PVP
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Post by PVP on Jun 13, 2010 7:45:36 GMT -5
The plant I would be looking for in that block would be the stocky stemmed, shortened internode indeterminate potato leaf vine that expressed a multiflora saladette or small salad size fruit (3 - 5 ounce with several fruit per cluster) with clear skin and flavor more toward Green Giant.
Peace, PV
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tz
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Post by tz on Jun 13, 2010 9:47:43 GMT -5
Interesting, PV. From another cross (LGS x unk red-pink cherry) I have multifloral dwarf cherry F2 in both yellow and green (also red and black), with a sweet flavor similar to Ping Pong (possible parent). Those could segregate up in fruit size in later generations, but would be RL. I'm also growing out a lot of that cross (F2) again this year because the taste was promissing and the variation was a lot of fun.
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