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Originally Posted by BigVanVader
I have S. pimpinellifolium coming up wild here ever since I grew it one year. I have grown to like the flavor and I am always amazed at how they can take anything. I have cut them down with a string trimmer and they come back. Never get disease, don't need watering etc. Would it be easy to cross them with other tomatoes? If I did would the crosses then have the genes responsible for the vigor of S.pip?
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S pimpinellifolium and domestic tomatoes are completely cross compatible. The offspring would have half of the genes responsible for the vigor of S.pimp. Then you'd get to select, or allow your environment to select for vigor.