How not to cross tomatoes

TZ-OH6 · July 15, 2010

I got lazy last year and decided to simply coat Brandywine stigmas on open flowers with Black Krim pollen. I figured that I would just not use the few self pollinated PL plants that grew out.

Well, almost all of the seedlings were PL, and now that the 10 RL plants I grew are producing fruit some are red and some are pink so it looks like almost none of the Black Krim pollen got there in time. The scary part is that the nearest pink tomatoes were a long long ways away with many yellow skinned varieties inbetween.

Lesson learned

July 15, 2010	#1
TZ-OH6 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mid-Ohio Posts: 847	How not to cross tomatoes I got lazy last year and decided to simply coat Brandywine stigmas on open flowers with Black Krim pollen. I figured that I would just not use the few self pollinated PL plants that grew out. Well, almost all of the seedlings were PL, and now that the 10 RL plants I grew are producing fruit some are red and some are pink so it looks like almost none of the Black Krim pollen got there in time. The scary part is that the nearest pink tomatoes were a long long ways away with many yellow skinned varieties inbetween. Lesson learned