Quote:
|
Thanks for your post Tom, for I always learn something new.
|
Carolyn,
Learning something new is the main reason I answer some posts. If it just to respond with what I already know, I may not even be motivated.
The selfing of Big Beef and to ID possible parents is close to something I have thought about for years. A few times in the past, I would talk to a tomato breeder and say something like @$%&*%@ is probably the parent of such and such a hybrid, and the breeder would inadvertently remark, "How did you know that?" I would then say that I did not know actually, but took a rather wild guess. The breeder would then say, "Don't tell anyone!"
I am doing some work with Bingo and PSX 36179. A grower in SW Washington wanted me to "save" these varieties since the hybrids were discontinued. I have these coming along nicely in the filial generations and have made test hybrids between the Bingo and 36179 OP's.
Last week when I was out to see the progress of about 150 different tomato clones in a greenhouse near Carnation. The grower wanted to know what I thought was reducing the yield of various tomatoes in his larger greenhouses. He had quite a few Green Zebras and some other varieties. But his best set of tomatoes was on.....Big Beef F-1....and he asked for my ideas on how to increase the set of Green Zebra. I told him to look at such and such #'d clones in the other greenhouse that were Green Zebra hybrids. He did and he will probably ask for those hybrids next year.
Tom Wagner