Free seed of 2012 crosses - Page 9

ChrisK · December 19, 2013

Awesome! Thanks, Ginger!!

clkingtx · January 1, 2014

I am sorry I haven't updated in so long. I was hoping the last batch of tomatoes had enough time to mature the seeds, but not a single tomato I picked from either cross had matured even one seed. I don't have any idea what happened! Some I picked as soon as they were ripe, some I left on the vine for a while. Some I cut open right away, some I let sit on the counter for a while. I am not sure if it was the heat, or my growing practices, or what...I had one plant in the ground in full sun, and two in pots in the shade. Even some of my other plants this year didn't produce seeds. I had a sweet 100 in ground that I couldn't find 1 seed in any of the fruit(and it was about 5 foot tall by 10 foot long, lush, and loaded). It seems like the only tomatoes that made seeds this year was a few of the dwarf varieties I had. Sorry I wasn't any help to your project this year, thanks again for giving me the opportunity. It was fun!

ginger2778 · January 1, 2014

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Originally Posted by ChrisK

Awesome! Thanks, Ginger!!

Did they arrive?

Marsha

ChrisK · January 1, 2014

Sorry! Yes, safe and sound!

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Originally Posted by ginger2778

Did they arrive?

Marsha

dustyrivergarden · January 15, 2014

Just a note on the seed I grew out last year the Juliet x Green Zebra- nice tomato pretty red w/ striped looked like a picture some one else has posted that you already have the shape of a Juliet. Chocolate Cherry x Juliet - about the same size as a Chocolate cherry round and red great flavor. and the Sun Gold x Black from Tula - big taste but was the size of a sun gold but Yellow in color very good to eat. I do have pictures I did really enjoy eating the Chocolate Cherry x Juliet it taste just as good as a Chocolate cherry very nice flavor I hope next years bunch will be just as good in this line...sorry about the delay I just forgot my pass word and finally remembered....

dustyrivergarden · January 15, 2014

I will get seed packed up and sent back here shortly....

tuk50 · January 17, 2014

Good to see you back dustyriver.
GZ x BFT, J x GZ AND J x SR are doing great so far this round and I will be potting them up soon. The J x SR have very tiny seeds and the seedlings are the smallest I have ever grown.... I use Autozone's DE in my seed trays and its grains are about three times larger than the seeds, but they really thrive well in it with massive root systems forming. I'm looking to get them planted around the third week in march.

ChrisK · January 17, 2014

Sounds great! Very much looking forward to the F2s of the Sungold x BFT, in particular! When you grow these it might be good to keep only the plants with the distinctive Sungold foliage fragrance. Entirely up to you though!

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Originally Posted by dustyrivergarden

Just a note on the seed I grew out last year the Juliet x Green Zebra- nice tomato pretty red w/ striped looked like a picture some one else has posted that you already have the shape of a Juliet. Chocolate Cherry x Juliet - about the same size as a Chocolate cherry round and red great flavor. and the Sun Gold x Black from Tula - big taste but was the size of a sun gold but Yellow in color very good to eat. I do have pictures I did really enjoy eating the Chocolate Cherry x Juliet it taste just as good as a Chocolate cherry very nice flavor I hope next years bunch will be just as good in this line...sorry about the delay I just forgot my pass word and finally remembered....

ChrisK · January 17, 2014

How many plants of each will you grow? We'll see a lot of segregation now. 1/4 should have some striping, for example. Unfortunately, no way for you to select those plants until you see fruit.

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Originally Posted by tuk50

Good to see you back dustyriver.
GZ x BFT, J x GZ AND J x SR are doing great so far this round and I will be potting them up soon. The J x SR have very tiny seeds and the seedlings are the smallest I have ever grown.... I use Autozone's DE in my seed trays and its grains are about three times larger than the seeds, but they really thrive well in it with massive root systems forming. I'm looking to get them planted around the third week in march.

tuk50 · January 18, 2014

Chris, This year only a few of each.. my granddaughter wanted to sell tomatoes at farmers market and round red and cherry sells here, so I'll have to grow a row of each. I will save the seeds for next year if I don't get something to follow through on with the small sample I grow this year. I have three rows for tomatoes at 30ft each, so I will have to cram them in at 2ft spacing along with my grafts and other grow outs. Of course, as bad as I am with grafts there may be a lot of room... LOL.

tuk50 · January 18, 2014

Something that I noticed right before frost killed them last year in December, was that on JxGZ, there were solid red tomatoes. I only know basic genetics, so didn't understand what was happening. Earlier in the summer the striped ones were ripe. Then they were striped and still hard to the touch and quickly went to bright dark red and then were ripe to the touch. The taste seemed to be more concentrated, but by december I had cut my irrigation way back, so that might have been some of the change. One thing I'm still interested in is the strong resistance to rkn. Both jxgz and jxsr only developed a few small nodules on the roots at the end of the season. There are very few varieties that can do this in my rkn infested garden.

dustyrivergarden · January 20, 2014

I will probably only grow 3 of each room is the issue I have other plants to grow....I will be interested to see how they do as f2 also they could really do some fun things this year....

sdzejachok · January 26, 2014

If you still have any of these I'll take Green Zebra x Black from Tula
Juliet F1 x Prudens Purple

I could grow out 2 or 3 plants each. I'll send a PM with my address.

tuk50 · January 29, 2014

sdzejachok, just a note on the GZxBFT, it is one of the largest and vigorous seedlings I've grown. Taste is great, but my garden has some form of wilt in the summer that whacks it mid summer. It is well worth trying. Bft does fair here, but GZ does the same mid summer after picking only a few. I have gardened about 10 miles from here and GZ was about 6ft tall and heavy producer. Then for a couple of years about 2 miles in another place and GZ in a red clay, sandy soil was about 16 feet tall every year and produced massive amounts of fruit from March to December.

tuk50 · July 9, 2014

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[/IMG] I grew three plants from JxGZ f2 seeds. All three plants have different fruit, but looked very similar and all have performed well in my 2014 garden. I have disease problems including rkn's in my sandy loam garden. All three plants show no signs of any problem and have survived two months of no rainfall and 100deg plus .... with irrigation only.

December 19, 2013	#121
ChrisK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,448	Awesome! Thanks, Ginger!! __________________ Blog: chriskafer.wordpress.com Ignorance more frequently begets knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. --Charles Darwin

January 15, 2014	#125
dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	Just a note on the seed I grew out last year the Juliet x Green Zebra- nice tomato pretty red w/ striped looked like a picture some one else has posted that you already have the shape of a Juliet. Chocolate Cherry x Juliet - about the same size as a Chocolate cherry round and red great flavor. and the Sun Gold x Black from Tula - big taste but was the size of a sun gold but Yellow in color very good to eat. I do have pictures I did really enjoy eating the Chocolate Cherry x Juliet it taste just as good as a Chocolate cherry very nice flavor I hope next years bunch will be just as good in this line...sorry about the delay I just forgot my pass word and finally remembered.... __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.

January 15, 2014	#126
dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	I will get seed packed up and sent back here shortly.... __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.

January 17, 2014	#127
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	Good to see you back dustyriver. GZ x BFT, J x GZ AND J x SR are doing great so far this round and I will be potting them up soon. The J x SR have very tiny seeds and the seedlings are the smallest I have ever grown.... I use Autozone's DE in my seed trays and its grains are about three times larger than the seeds, but they really thrive well in it with massive root systems forming. I'm looking to get them planted around the third week in march. __________________ Hangin on for dear life!

January 18, 2014	#130
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	Chris, This year only a few of each.. my granddaughter wanted to sell tomatoes at farmers market and round red and cherry sells here, so I'll have to grow a row of each. I will save the seeds for next year if I don't get something to follow through on with the small sample I grow this year. I have three rows for tomatoes at 30ft each, so I will have to cram them in at 2ft spacing along with my grafts and other grow outs. Of course, as bad as I am with grafts there may be a lot of room... LOL. __________________ Hangin on for dear life!

January 1, 2014	#122
clkingtx Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wichita Falls Texas Posts: 446	I am sorry I haven't updated in so long. I was hoping the last batch of tomatoes had enough time to mature the seeds, but not a single tomato I picked from either cross had matured even one seed. I don't have any idea what happened! Some I picked as soon as they were ripe, some I left on the vine for a while. Some I cut open right away, some I let sit on the counter for a while. I am not sure if it was the heat, or my growing practices, or what...I had one plant in the ground in full sun, and two in pots in the shade. Even some of my other plants this year didn't produce seeds. I had a sweet 100 in ground that I couldn't find 1 seed in any of the fruit(and it was about 5 foot tall by 10 foot long, lush, and loaded). It seems like the only tomatoes that made seeds this year was a few of the dwarf varieties I had. Sorry I wasn't any help to your project this year, thanks again for giving me the opportunity. It was fun!

January 18, 2014	#131
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	Something that I noticed right before frost killed them last year in December, was that on JxGZ, there were solid red tomatoes. I only know basic genetics, so didn't understand what was happening. Earlier in the summer the striped ones were ripe. Then they were striped and still hard to the touch and quickly went to bright dark red and then were ripe to the touch. The taste seemed to be more concentrated, but by december I had cut my irrigation way back, so that might have been some of the change. One thing I'm still interested in is the strong resistance to rkn. Both jxgz and jxsr only developed a few small nodules on the roots at the end of the season. There are very few varieties that can do this in my rkn infested garden. __________________ Hangin on for dear life! Last edited by tuk50; January 18, 2014 at 09:47 AM.

January 20, 2014	#132
dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	I will probably only grow 3 of each room is the issue I have other plants to grow....I will be interested to see how they do as f2 also they could really do some fun things this year.... __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.

January 26, 2014	#133
sdzejachok Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Ohio Posts: 98	If you still have any of these I'll take Green Zebra x Black from Tula Juliet F1 x Prudens Purple I could grow out 2 or 3 plants each. I'll send a PM with my address.

January 29, 2014	#134
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	sdzejachok, just a note on the GZxBFT, it is one of the largest and vigorous seedlings I've grown. Taste is great, but my garden has some form of wilt in the summer that whacks it mid summer. It is well worth trying. Bft does fair here, but GZ does the same mid summer after picking only a few. I have gardened about 10 miles from here and GZ was about 6ft tall and heavy producer. Then for a couple of years about 2 miles in another place and GZ in a red clay, sandy soil was about 16 feet tall every year and produced massive amounts of fruit from March to December. __________________ Hangin on for dear life!

July 9, 2014	#135
tuk50 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina) Posts: 413	[IMG][/IMG] I grew three plants from JxGZ f2 seeds. All three plants have different fruit, but looked very similar and all have performed well in my 2014 garden. I have disease problems including rkn's in my sandy loam garden. All three plants show no signs of any problem and have survived two months of no rainfall and 100deg plus .... with irrigation only. __________________ Hangin on for dear life!