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Old April 30, 2017   #12
robertamell
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Originally Posted by heirloomtomaguy View Post
I have made numerous crosses in the last several years but the very first one i ever made has been overlooked until this year. I totally forgot about this poor guy until i saw it in the masses of seed i have piling up around here. The first parent in this cross is from a F3 growout of an experimental hybrid some of us grew a few years back called 3C57 from Frogsleap farms. It was originally a cherry tomato similar to Lucky Tiger but with antho shoulders. The second parent is a volunteer plant my kids found out back by their swingset a year before i ever grew tomatoes in the ground on my property. I really have no idea what it could have been but it was a red round tomato similar to a better boy. Im growing 6 plants with 5 being RL and 1 being PL. The foliage types vary quite a bit with the RL plants. I am really liking the shape and speckling/streaking of the PL plant thus far. Anyway here are some pics of the progress so far.
This is plant 1 PL
those look really nice. I am hoping to cross Cornue des Andes with a black tomato this year (probably the black cherry) and am just looking for some advice.
For example, when you did the cross, how many "flowers" did you pollinate to make sure you would have enough F1 to work with.
HELP! i am a real beginner with this and any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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