Ha! I definitely don't earn a living by plant breeding or farming. But it gives me something to do to occupy my time.
Last growing season I made a hybrid between a huge yellow/red indeterminate beefsteak (Hillbilly or Virginia Sweets) and a small red saladette determinate tomato (Jagodka). I grew it out overwinter and planted F2 seedlings this spring.
Some of the fruits have ripened. Here are photos of what they look like:
HX-3:
Early bi-color fruits.
Determinate.
Industrialized flower. I'm likely to grow this one again as a breeding line due to the bi-color fruits and early productivity. It will definitely be added to my landrace tomatoes.
HX-6:
Early red fruits.
Indeterminate. Industrialized flower. None of the traits I was looking for from the cross. I intend to drop this line.
HX-9:
Large early fruits. Determinate. Loose/open flowers with exerted stigma. Big petals. Nice floral Display. Bi-color fruit. This is the phenotype that I was hoping to get out of this cross!!! The first time I evaluated the patch, this plant had set twice as many fruit as any other plant in the clade. I intend for this to be a high priority grow-out next year.
HX-13:
Small early fruits.
Indeterminate. Industrialized flowers. None of the traits that I was looking for. Unlikely to grow this one again.
HX-15:
Early small red fruits.
Determinate. Vigor somewhat lacking.
Open flowers, but
stigma not excerted. The open flowers and determinate growth habit are interesting. I'll roll this one into a landrace due to it's open flowers and determinate growth, but don't intend to do line-breeding on it. Even though I'm calling the fruits small, they are larger than Jagodka, one of the progenitors of the cross.
HX-16:
Early extra large
red fruits.
Determinate.
Marginal vigor. Industrialized flowers. The early large fruit and determinate growth habit are nice enough to get it rolled into the landrace, but I don't feel inclined to pursue it as a breeding line.
I have a lot of blemishes (bacterial speck/spot) on tomato fruits and leaves in my garden right now... I walked my garden yesterday looking for any plants that were resistant. Most of this clade, and a bi-color indeterminate beefsteak that looks like the father of the cross showed minimal spotting. Hmm... I'll have to watch that in coming years.