Tomatoes planted outdoors exactly two months ago are finally growing and blooming well after a long wait. I am just minutes from Seattle.
As to the F-2 (Black Prince X Cherokee Purple) plant of the first of May planting, I was able to cross flowers of it with pollen from Black Prince and Cherokee Purple today. These two backcrosses will allow me to pull out traits respectively regardless of the phenotype of the F-2 plant.
I made just a few crosses today, around 70 tomato combos. Tomorrow will be crossing 100 or so potato crosses.
Decent weather now, low of 51, high of 75. Showers on the way.
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