Tomatoville® Gardening Forums


Notices

Forum area for discussing hybridizing tomatoes in technical terms and information pertinent to trait/variety specific long-term (1+ years) growout projects.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old July 10, 2006   #1
kimpossible
Tomatovillian™
 
kimpossible's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada
Posts: 767
Default

But is that just the fact that the flower was pollinated - (either naturally or artificially) anyway? Is there something that actually visually confirms the cross? Or is it just the knowledge that you made sure it was cross-pollinated? (Does this make sense?)
__________________
So Many Tomatoes ... So Little Time
kimpossible is offline   Reply With Quote
Old July 11, 2006   #2
travis
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Evansville, IN
Posts: 2,984
Default

I'm just keepin' my fingers crossed, Kim. I emasculated the blossoms before they opened when they were still enclosed in their green hulls with just a bit of yellow showing. Then I waited two days until the other blossoms that were in the same cluster opened and applied the pollen to the emasculated stigma ... waited another day and repeated the pollen dabs.

When the little fruit ovule started peakin' out, I removed all the other blossoms and ovules from the same cluster and left only the the crossed ovule tagged.

Here's Brandywine x Neves Azorean Red



Here's Juanne Flammee x Sun Gold



Sorry for the fuzzy focus on that one.

PV
travis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old July 12, 2006   #3
travis
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Evansville, IN
Posts: 2,984
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by kctomato
JF X SG good idea for a cross PV.

Ill get back to Kim's in awhile. Gonna step away from computer for awhile.

Yeah, Keith ... I'm thinkin' a big orange cherry with stinky foliage

Actually, the first J-Flam I tasted had a rather strange wang to it for my tastes. But the Sun Gold has just a sweet taste to me ... not anything really "tomatoey" like some folks describe.

Last year I grew a cherry called Chello that was yellow/gold and had a very very tomatoey flavor, but wasn't as sweet as Sun Gold.

I hope this J.F. x S.G. took good and bears seed. I'm a beginner at this crossing stuff. Last year I waited too long to emasculate the flowers. This year I doin' them green like in the narrative instructions at various sites about cross breeding.

I'll post some pics of a few more if the ovules start growing.

PV
travis is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:31 PM.


★ Tomatoville® is a registered trademark of Commerce Holdings, LLC ★ All Content ©2022 Commerce Holdings, LLC ★