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Originally Posted by KarenO
Another option would be to grow more F2. 8 is not a lot to select from. Are you trying to replicate your F1 that you liked? Curious what your goal is, a beta paste?
There’s all kinds of options easier than a lot of back crossing at this point including the simplest which is perhaps a new cross with different parents if you don’t like what you got from this one?
For myself perhaps I’m lazy but I’d grow out more F2 from the original cross before I’d get too deep into all sorts of backcrossing and if i did not find something i wanted to go forward with from the Larger F2 growout I would consider other options at that point.
My personal choice would be a new cross rather than trying to wrangle with one that’s not giving me what I want.
From my admittedly and deliberately simplistic crossing style, that’s my 2cents.
A Bigger F2 growout especially with a wide cross like that will give you more to work with.
KarenO
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A beta paste is what I'm trying to achieve and I'm getting close to what I'm looking for (similar to 97L97, but indeterminate and more flavor (why the breeding with Opalka and Heidi). The problem is getting the linkage of Beta to determinate growth in the chromosome. So a Jaune Flamme cross with 97L97 maikes sense in that I can get the indeterminate and beta from Jaune Flamme and the modifier gene from 97L97. I grow many different types and lines of tomatoes (I grew 63 plants this year) but have trouble not growing any one type (or more) to fit in more plants of one breeding line.
