I have seeds from all the plants except the ones that were the latest to produce. Those are the only clear duds in my project. They are all good tomatoes but I am specifically looking for early. I do have seeds from all the good ones but there is usually a plant that is my favourite overall for early, productive, shape etc. I really like that broad "blunter" heart shape rather than the pointed hearts and I also like the big ones in general. hate cracking so that's a consideration as some plants seem more prone with some plants basically having zero radial cracking on the fruit. I also like a small stem, smoother shoulders , tight blossom scar. Basically it comes down to my favourite overall in each group as I want something new and different that people will be interested in trying. ALL of them taste good so that helps make it easy to select more for habit and shape/size without sacrificing flavour. I am having fun with it and I enjoy getting others to try them and tell me which they prefer too. Seems fairly consistent answer " I like them all but this one is sweeter or this one has more tang... etc. Nobody dislikes any of them so far, that's reassuring to not have a spitter in the group since taste is subjective. The bicolour tastes like orange Russian 117 quite sweet. The blacks taste like any of the well known good blacks as far as I'm concerned. A couple of the black plants have had exceptional flavour IMO and all else being equal, flavour wins the "best of the bunch to carry forward"
I can't wait for you to try them Bower. I think I might send a few folks some F5 seed next fall to have a trial and let me know what they think. I hope you will be one of them as you have been here from the start encouraging me along and I really appreciate it
KarenO
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Originally Posted by bower
They look lovely... 
So tell me about your selection process, now supposing you have nineteen individuals with similar traits conforming to the Midnight Sun agenda.  
How are you going about choosing which one (or ones) of the nineteen to save seed and grow onward? 
I'm assuming you will choose one line to grow forward, but will also save (several?) backup lines in case anything goes south.  Or is that just me, pack rat of the 'just in case' seeds.  |