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Old March 29, 2018   #7
KarenO
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How can you identify a plant with the “desired characteristics” until the end of the season with ripe fruit when it is too late to do a cross.
Plenty of stable tomatoes with dependable genetics to use in crossing. The only place using early segregates to cross is really useful or adventageous is in backcrossing your own cross to an earlier segregant to increase the odds of recovering a specific trait.
Otherwise unless you have space for growouts of large numbers of F2 plants it’s a genetic crapshoot and will be more difficult to stabilize.

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