Hi Nicolas!
You may be wondering about the feasibility of recovering large size from a cross between a cherry and a large fruit? Assuming that a large fruit is desired.
Small size does tend to dominate in resulting F2's, so that you will have to grow more F2 plants to recover a large fruited line from your cross. The same is true for a cherry or intermediate sized fruit, that the F2 will tend to be skewed towards the smaller sized parent in the cross.
If growing space is at all limited, you may find your F2 selection is all about finding those few large fruited ones, in crosses with smaller fruit. Frogsleap published some statistics on his blog, where they found the recovery of large size to be only around one in ten iirc. So you might find 2 large fruited F2's if you grow 20 plants. If you want more than two to choose from, to select for other traits in that generation, you will have to grow more.
In contrast, if you cross two larger sized fruit, your F2 selection can be focused on other traits.
Asi sera mas dificil buscar fruta grande utilizando un pariente 'cereza', pero es possible (con mas espacio/ o paciencia / o suerte que tambien figura) segun la decision que este tiene rasgos geneticos distintos e importantes para su objectivo, que no se encuentran en otro tomate mas grande. (Wow that was harder than I thought!
Just thought I would stand in your shoes for a minute.
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Don't forget to post about your crosses in the Crosstalk subforum! We love hearing about these projects.
