Taking stock of my healthiest greenhouse seedlings today after last night’s frost (fortunately, the greenhouse only dipped to about 38*F) and decided I need to keep an eye on this one. I think it could be useful for the dwarf/micro-dwarf x Promiscuous side project…
@WilliamGrowsTomatoes am I right in assuming that if a seedling from your EFN Mission Mountain grex is barely an inch tall and putting on its third set of true leaves, it’s probably inherited some dwarf genetics?
Yes that seedling in your photo appears also to be a bit rugose so a fair chance it is a true dwarf. It is also potato leaf. Those crosses that were included included some with Aztek a microdwarf, Dwarf Gloria’s Treat and Dwarf Mocha’s Cherry.
Well that lil Dwarfsarelli looks like a cutey petooty!
I have to laugh…I only just first
planted my GTS - Obligate Outcross and Promiscuous Returned - and Mountain Sunrise Bi-Color Hybrid Swarm (Wild Mountain Seed) this afternoon. AND, given this,
it’s aggressive for my Valley. 
The maters can quite easily take repeated light frosts. Out my way it is the ever present lingering threat of Hard Frosts seemingly
every month but July.
Thankfully, I am talking high tunnels again for seasons down the proverbial line. For now,
I’m going to aim for a hypothetical Mid May-through-3rd week of May transplanting.
Nice!
I just looked up Aztek, it’s a lovely yellow. Hopefully this dwarf seedling is descended from that, though I wouldn’t mind any of them. I’ve just been trying to stay away from the typical basic-round-red-cherry on my micro dwarfs. Most of what I’m working with right now are orange varieties, some with anthocyanin and/or color streaking, from Bounty Hunter Seeds. The first batch started in my indoor aeroponic grow garden is ripening fruit at the moment, so I’ll have seed to start for outdoor summer grow outs and crosses. While it’s officially a side-project, I really would like to get some promiscuous genes into these micros. I think they’d work well in big planter pots as “ornamentals” for those of us with limited growing space.
I think the cutest thing I’ve grown so far is actually Orange Hat tomato… it started flowering at not even a hand high. Talk about tiny!
Lots of blooms, not many have set fruit. Leaf cutter beas on order to release…had some in previous years besides honey bees but all perished in last years heatwave. Ants are everywhere and maybe they will complete some pollination?
My first tomato seed to germinate in my rickety greenhouse was a 2024 GTS Promiscuous. That is all. Willing lil gal. It continues to be an absurdly cool La Niña (likely transitional) spring breakout this year.
I think I need to sing this lonely gal a country ballad to help her in this lonely thyme.
Tomatoes get most of their pollination in North America from Bumblebees in the genus Bombus and the wind! Promiscuous tomatoes the wind probably doesn’t help- much. I feel like bumblebee conservation is very important to tomatoes. My bumblebee plant of the day was wax current! I saw what I thought was Hunt’s bumblebee and another species visiting their flowers today. Queens this early- no workers yet.
Ive only observed bumble bees on mesquite tree blooms. Regular honeybees normally visit the garden but not so many this year.
