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I wouldn't mind at all having a black determinate like Rodney but twice the size. It's not a bad place to start from, and cross with a great black beef, you should get 1/4 determinates in the F2. OTOH I don't know how many F2 determinates you would have to go through before finding great fruit in that package. If the quality defects that have cropped up in other determinate selections (small fruit, sour fruit, mealy fruit!, disease susceptibility) are due to a linkage that has been broken or bypassed already, then it may be relatively easy to cross to get larger beefs.
Optimism... all gardeners are optimists!
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If your up for sending me some seeds I'd try it. I've never done any breeding work but I would be up for crossing Rodney with a few blacks and doing small growouts. I'm sure I could get some other tomatovillians to help me, plus I have a few gardener friends that would grow some for me. I feel like a tasty det black would fill a huge hole in the current tomato world.