Single Flower Truss

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To address some misconceptions that may be apparent, sft (single flower truss) is pretty much useless in the homozygous state, where it would result in a plant with lots of leaves and very few fruit. It is only useful in the heterozygous condition and thus is an example of a beneficial trait that can only be reliably reproduced in an F1 hybrid.

[maf]

Originally Posted by Fred Hempel

And I hope KC Tomato is on the lookout for Isreali patent-enforcement crews.

Yeah, watch out for drones, and don't plan a wedding anytime soon!

[snugglekitten]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

Fred, it is not just vegetative habit that is changed. Flower set is increased. If you want more details, Kctomato has a few lines with this gene and has made several crosses.

I found a different but much more useful set of genes that sorted out in the Big Beef X Eva Purple Ball cross. It results in 50% higher production on compact indeterminate plants. If you want a few seed to trial, send me an address and I'll put them in the mail. I've described the results of using this line a few times. Short story is that I picked 80 pounds of tomatoes from each F1 plant in my garden. The effect holds in most crosses I've made over the last 5 years. I'm growing out Aunt Ruby's German Green X (BB X EPB) this year in an attempt to stabilize a green when ripe with the enhanced fruiting genes.

Dar, if you haven't already mailed me the other requested material, it would be a godsend if you could slip me a few seeds from this cross in the same envelope.


Thanks very very much in advance.