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Boutique Tomatoes · March 3, 2012

I was imagining doing larger grow outs to select for multiple recessive traits. Space isn't much of an issue for me here, between farming family and friends I could never produce enough plants to fill the available unused acreage. Nobody seems to want to work the small little fields any more but I could put a lot of breeding project tomatoes on a two acre field.

I suppose merciless culling as soon as it's apparent that the plant isn't what you're hoping for or something else potentially interesting is probably the best solution.

March 3, 2012	#3
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	I was imagining doing larger grow outs to select for multiple recessive traits. Space isn't much of an issue for me here, between farming family and friends I could never produce enough plants to fill the available unused acreage. Nobody seems to want to work the small little fields any more but I could put a lot of breeding project tomatoes on a two acre field. I suppose merciless culling as soon as it's apparent that the plant isn't what you're hoping for or something else potentially interesting is probably the best solution.