working with sugarlump

pbud · February 25, 2008

Last year I crossed brandywine & sugarlump hoping for an earlish, mid sized delicious tomato that would do well in relatively cool summer weather. What I don't want is a cherry tomato. The F1 plants I started last week flew out of the seed starting mix - very cherry-like.

My question, given my goals for this cross: should I back-cross this F1 generation with something large (like brandywine again, or cherokee green, which also does well in my cool weather)? Or grow out the F1 plants and hope to see a midsized tomato emerge in the F2 generation?

I have limited space or I would just do both (might still). But if someone here has experience with sugarlump and says, as Tom intimated in an earlier thread, that it is really tough to get it up to size, then I'll probably just back-cross it.

Thanks!
Paul

February 25, 2008	#1
pbud Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bay Area Posts: 173	working with sugarlump Last year I crossed brandywine & sugarlump hoping for an earlish, mid sized delicious tomato that would do well in relatively cool summer weather. What I don't want is a cherry tomato. The F1 plants I started last week flew out of the seed starting mix - very cherry-like. My question, given my goals for this cross: should I back-cross this F1 generation with something large (like brandywine again, or cherokee green, which also does well in my cool weather)? Or grow out the F1 plants and hope to see a midsized tomato emerge in the F2 generation? I have limited space or I would just do both (might still). But if someone here has experience with sugarlump and says, as Tom intimated in an earlier thread, that it is really tough to get it up to size, then I'll probably just back-cross it. Thanks! Paul