Yea… They got his own ecosystem there. They need his own bee hives on the greenhouses to get pollinization.
In canary islands is plastic shadow cloth instead of transparent plastic.
Hello everyone. I’m curious how this project has gone so far this year and if you will continue to collaborate next season.
Hi Malte,
I’m not certain yet, but, a few people have been keeping in contact about how it has been going, whereas the majority of people have been totally silent, which is quite worrying. I’m hoping they are just busy and that it will go well by the end of the season, but, if most people don’t get back to me and don’t send seeds back then I will have to think how to proceed next year. I would like to do it again, but it was a lot of work organising the trial and sending out thousands of seeds. Not to mention creating the material in the first place! I have also worked on making a lot of seed for next trials. But…. I guess we will see how it goes…
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This mirrors my experience with other attempts at seed collaboration projects with relative strangers you’re not regularly in contact with. Something that I’ve learned is that most people need reminders to do the things they signed up for - planting the seed, evaluating the crop at the end of the season, saving seed (or tubers for seed growing next season). The fact is most of us forget a lot of the things we thought we wanted to do months before.
Did you write the people you sent seed to and asked how it went? I wonder what would happen if we simply tagged their names in this thread and asked.
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Yes, I am in contact with some. I’m using different forms of communication (but chose not to use this forum post for that). It was by email that very few responded. It was a group email - I may write individually to each soon though that takes a lot of time and I am super busy processing seeds these days! I must get to that though.
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Maybe in addition to the tomato selection there’s also a selection for ongoing collaborators happening at the same time!
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Is anyone in contact with @Shao or @Richard ? I sent over 1,000 seeds (9 lines) to Shao and about 920 seeds (27 different lines) to Richard/Ricardo but apart from Richard acknowledging receiving the seeds, I never heard anything back from either of them, despite my trying to contact them here via this thread and also by email. They seemed really serious about the project, which is why I was willing to send them some of my most precious material. I’m rather confused by their lack of response but, perhaps somehow they have not noticed my efforts to communicate, so, if anyone is in contact with them I would really appreciate some assistance in getting in touch with them, and maybe encouraging them to write here?
Thanks!
[Edit: sorry my mistake I did actually hear back from @Shao in July! I’ll write below…]
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It’s helpful that you bring the issue into the open, so we can work together on it. One thing I notice - if you click either profile of @Shao or @Richard, you can see when they were last seen and posted on the forum. I note that both of them haven’t written anything since last summer, although they’ve logged in during fall or winter.
Not answering messages and other kinds of silences are inherently ambiguous and difficult to know what they mean. So they tend to provoke all kinds of ideas about what people might be doing by being silent. With that in mind, it would be helpful Shao and Richard if you can come and put your voice in.
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Sorry my mistake I did actually hear back from @Shao in July! He kindly gave an update with quite a bit of info. But nothing since then.
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Hi Justin,
thank you for this initiative 
I would like to join, and also I was able to multiply some of the promiscuous tomatoes last year, and I’ve got some extra seeds to share if you or anyone needs (mainly smaller size tomatoes from Joseph’s promiscuous and tasty tomato project, exserted orange, wildling panamorous and big hill.
My location: continental Croatia
Category I am interested in: F2 grow out for Late Blight (hereafter ‘LB’),
I could fit in up to 100 plants.
Late blight shows up when we have rainy summers quite early here (end of August) + fog, but if it is dry summer, tomatoes grow perfectly until October and later. I have a feeling this summer will be more humid than usually, so I think this makes it a perfect opportunity to work on this project. Other than that, we have a lot of stinky bugs here that love heirlooms, but they couldn’t do much to the tomatoes with “wild” genetics.
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