Hybrid is as Hybrid does

[Solanum315]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

(There are different strains of Brandywine that are accepted by the most elitist tomato nerds so why shouldn't you be able to stabilize and sell your strain of a landrace?)

You've called me a nerd before and explained that it's a term of affection, but now I guess you've upped it to elitist nerd.

I'm not going to go into the two definitions of strain here since a search will bring up several threads, one being titled What is a Strain, as I recall.

Now to Nagcarlang, or however one wants to spell it. There's lots of info about it and the two Filipino ones here at TV and in one of the links below Steve, Double Helix, explains his research about it.

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...light=filipino

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...light=filipino

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...ight=nagcarlan

The above in no particular order.

Carolyn

Carolyn,
You have been helpful to me since I first started growing OP seeds and posting to GW circa 2008. I don't have you in mind when I use the term "elitist tomato nerd". If you were elitist you wouldn't respond to as many newbie questions as I have seen you answer over the years. Tomato nerd? Yes, as am I. However, not in the same class. As an English major and liberal arts guy that avoided hard science until flight school, my knowledge of tomato genetics is limited to little more than "PL is recessive". So, much respect to you for being able to say specifically why tomatoes do what they do.
I did read the links you posted but nothing really addressed the stability of Nagcarlang. I think the bulk of evidence points to it not being stable unless someone has taken the time to personally walk it through F6.