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TheLoud · February 9, 2012

I haven't done any sort of exhaustive search for genes that influence earliness, and I also don't know how prevalent these particular genes for earliness are in existing cultivars. 'Early Cherry' is from a breeding program in Oregon that incorporated some wild tomato relatives, so it's possible they caught some genes from the wild that aren't common in cultivated tomatoes.

I don't think I'll have room to do much tomato breeding myself in the immediate future, so I'm just thinking out loud here.

February 9, 2012	#32
TheLoud Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Decatur, GA, zone 7 Posts: 28	I haven't done any sort of exhaustive search for genes that influence earliness, and I also don't know how prevalent these particular genes for earliness are in existing cultivars. 'Early Cherry' is from a breeding program in Oregon that incorporated some wild tomato relatives, so it's possible they caught some genes from the wild that aren't common in cultivated tomatoes. I don't think I'll have room to do much tomato breeding myself in the immediate future, so I'm just thinking out loud here.