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Post by frogsleapfarm on Feb 14, 2010 20:44:36 GMT -5
Johno - I spent a lot of time planning 2009 crosses, but sometimes ended up adusting the male parent based on pollen availability. After F1 growouts this winter I realize I could get by with very little pollen, and that I could usually get enough if I collected from several flowers.
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 14, 2010 21:15:31 GMT -5
Same here John. You could plan and plan and plan, but when it comes down to it, you are at the mercy of mother nature.
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Post by nolika on Feb 19, 2010 5:13:12 GMT -5
This may be a stupid question, but how long is pollen viable? Can you save it for later somehow? Thanks for the answer, Iva
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Post by raymondo on Feb 28, 2010 6:45:29 GMT -5
Had great plans for the season just ending but to no avail. Long hot spell followed by flooding put paid to most of my plans. I did cross KBX with a cherry I'm working on and hope to grow out one plant over my winter. Later in the year, when my season gets under way again, I have a number of crosses I want to do, mostly to do with cherries. I'd love a tomato that is the same colour all over as the underside of Cherokee Purple. I'd also like it to be PL so I'm thinking Pale Perfect Purple x Cherokee Purple.
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 28, 2010 8:11:43 GMT -5
Ray, how did KBX do for you as far as flavor/productivity etc?
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Post by PVP on Feb 28, 2010 14:05:50 GMT -5
"I'd love a tomato that is the same colour all over as the underside of Cherokee Purple. I'd also like it to be PL so I'm thinking Pale Perfect Purple x Cherokee Purple."
Are you saying you'd like a dark pink/purple/maroon tomato without green shoulders?
I think some of the lines coming out of KCMO crosses will do that. Bear Creek was that way for me but it's regular leaf. I think some of the Purple Haze recombinations will be that way. I have one that came from a tomato like that but this year expressed pink with no green shoulders. Hopefully there are some large, flat recombinations lurking in Purple Haze without green shoulders and looking like Cherokee Purple colorations top to bottom. Give those grow-outs a try. I think you'll be ahead of the curve relative to starting with an F1.
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Post by raymondo on Mar 1, 2010 4:54:55 GMT -5
Ray, how did KBX do for you as far as flavor/productivity etc? KBX flavour-wise is excellent for my tastes, rich and sweet. Productivity? Pretty poor but then most large tomatoes fare poorly for me because of frequent summer heavy rains. They split and rot. Until the drainage improves (I'm planning some minor earthworks that should help) there's not much I can do about it it. Are you saying you'd like a dark pink/purple/maroon tomato without green shoulders? Yes, same colour all over, that dark, dusky pink. I'm afraid I'll have to start from scratch because importing tomato seed into Australia is way too expensive for the home gardener. I import quite a lot of seed of various sorts and do not want to run afoul of our quarantine service.
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Post by raymondo on Mar 2, 2010 1:45:04 GMT -5
Thanks mulio. I'm not sure if I have any varieties known to have the uniform ripening gene. Would I be able to pick it up by careful observation of ripening? Failing that, I could get hold of a commercial cultivar with it and use that to introduce the desired trait.
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Post by darthslater on Aug 26, 2010 23:41:15 GMT -5
This is a cross I got in a seed trade, I didnt think much about it, so i planted it anyway, good thing, this one is the equal to sungold and maybe better, no joke. I also got a pear out of it, it is also good but not as intense. This one is Black Cherry x Juliet Here is the pear
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