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crmauch · July 20, 2017

Charley,

I'm not sure why'd you get 1/2 gwr. Could your red tomato not been fully purebreeding?

Are you sure that your tomato there is fully ripe? I'm breeding for a better tasting beta carotene (one of the types of orange tomato where the orange is from beta carotene (like carrots) instead of red from lycopene) indeterminate paste (where the cross was beta X red paste tomatoes). My F1's appeared quite orange, which didn't quite make sense, and thought maybe something was wrong. However thought the fruit I picked was ripe, later in the season some of the tomatoes were left on the vine longer (and perhaps later season cooler temps?) the tomatoes got "fully" ripe and got a red blush which 'proved' they were hybrid F1s.

July 20, 2017	#11
crmauch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Honey Brook, PA Zone 6b Posts: 399	Charley, I'm not sure why'd you get 1/2 gwr. Could your red tomato not been fully purebreeding? Are you sure that your tomato there is fully ripe? I'm breeding for a better tasting beta carotene (one of the types of orange tomato where the orange is from beta carotene (like carrots) instead of red from lycopene) indeterminate paste (where the cross was beta X red paste tomatoes). My F1's appeared quite orange, which didn't quite make sense, and thought maybe something was wrong. However thought the fruit I picked was ripe, later in the season some of the tomatoes were left on the vine longer (and perhaps later season cooler temps?) the tomatoes got "fully" ripe and got a red blush which 'proved' they were hybrid F1s.