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Old July 9, 2015   #31
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my multiflora cross is setting flowers.
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Old July 10, 2015   #32
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Wow!... those clusters are intense!
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Old July 15, 2015   #33
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Excellent job!
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Old July 15, 2015   #34
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Which number do you have MM?
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Old July 15, 2015   #35
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number of what?
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Old July 15, 2015   #36
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Oh sorry I got threads confused and thought you were growing one of ChrisK's crosses. What is yours a cross of?
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Old July 15, 2015   #37
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the cross was a f3 of Carolina gold x red centiflor. I did the cross with the red centiflor because it was the biggest, strongest, healthiest plant in the garden. I am looking to breed a tomato with the tangerine gene but the centiflor has been kind of a fun side track.
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Old August 7, 2015   #38
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Is anybody crossing Dwarfs with Multiflora?
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Old August 8, 2015   #39
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Is anybody crossing Dwarfs with Multiflora?
ChrisK has some fascinating lines he is working on. He has a thread in this forum - "Micro-tomato crosses" that includes information about some dwarf multiflora along with other regular micro and micro multiflora lines he is working on.

I am growing out an F1 of a dwarf crossed with a micro-multiflora of Chris' that I am helping him with. The F1 is an extremely early - less than 50 days - heavy producing dwarf plant with red 1-2 oz round fruit. Its mama was a micro multiflora with small red cherry size fruits and its papa was a dwarf that produced great tasting, large, 8-10 oz red w/green striped fruit.

I just started the first batch of F2s, which should be 3/4 dwarf - 1/4 micro and each of those groups should be 3/4 normal flora and 1/4 multiflora. What the fruit end up like is going to be the interesting and fun part.

I also attempted crosses of the same micro multiflora line with 7 other different dwarfs this summer. Time will tell whether or not the crosses were successful as I haven't collected the seed yet. Next summer could be interesting.

After posting this I noticed that you have posted in ChrisK's thread, so I didn't need to make you aware of his work.....

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Old August 8, 2015   #40
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Dfollett, are your dwarfs from the Dwarf Project? Can't wait to see what the next generations bring. It's like Christmas all summer long!
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Dfollett, are your dwarfs from the Dwarf Project? Can't wait to see what the next generations bring. It's like Christmas all summer long!
Yes they are.
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Old August 13, 2015   #42
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I'd be curious to know the actual breeding history of these. I've found only cryptic mentions of it being maybe a three way with wild species. Bred by Al Kapular, I think. He appears to have a number that he calls "centiflor hypertress"
Where do European lines come from?
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Old August 13, 2015   #43
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I read some of the posts in this thread but not all and some mentioned Alan Kapuler whom I once knew since he listed varieties in the SSE YEabooks, so I fetched his Peace Seeds site where he describes all the hypertress varieties that he, his daughter, etc., developed'

it's a long list so scroll down until you come to tomatoes since flowers come first.

http://peaceseedslive.blogspot.com/

Hope that helps.

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My question comes because I know a couple such varieties from Spain, and I doubt they come from Alan's work.

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There seems to be quite a tradition of European multiflora varieties that predate Dr Kapuler's work by some time, (Blondköpfchen, Ildi, Mirabell, Riesentraube etc.) but I have no idea of their official history.
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