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KarenO · November 20, 2017

agree with Joseph. If taste is your only selection criteria then grow out a bunch of the F2 of your cross, (for me though, as many as you can grow reasonably properly, enlisting friends for extra plants if possible )taste them at maturity and save seeds from the one your mom loves the most. there is bound to be a good one in the F2.
It doesn't have to be so complicated whatsoever if you only have one selection criteria. If among Joseph's suggested 100 plants you don't find one you like, no amount of backcrossing will fix that imo. It is better to make a new cross in my opinion than backcross trying to get something back that wasn't there to begin with. Leave that to the pros working on disease resistance etc with hundreds of plants. Remember also, every time you back cross it's a new cross and stabilization starts over at f2.
KarenO

November 20, 2017	#4
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,922	agree with Joseph. If taste is your only selection criteria then grow out a bunch of the F2 of your cross, (for me though, as many as you can grow reasonably properly, enlisting friends for extra plants if possible )taste them at maturity and save seeds from the one your mom loves the most. there is bound to be a good one in the F2. It doesn't have to be so complicated whatsoever if you only have one selection criteria. If among Joseph's suggested 100 plants you don't find one you like, no amount of backcrossing will fix that imo. It is better to make a new cross in my opinion than backcross trying to get something back that wasn't there to begin with. Leave that to the pros working on disease resistance etc with hundreds of plants. Remember also, every time you back cross it's a new cross and stabilization starts over at f2. KarenO Last edited by KarenO; November 20, 2017 at 01:10 PM.