Late blight Resistant Tomatoes

Those look quite healthy!

The LA1375 also known as PI 365967 Solanum pimpinellifolium is the only tomato I was able to obtain that may confer some tolerance to the brown rugose fruit virus. So not the one I was expecting to do well there! Though it might be a coastal accession and might be from a similar environment. Current tomatoes sometimes produce horrible, flavored tomatoes in cool weather and good flavored in warm so the flavor in your cool coastal environment might be of particular interest. It is the tomato I was crossing with the cross of today which I abbreviated (MMM x Brown Rugose) and made 24 crosses with, 26 for the year so far.

With the F2 and F3 Lizzano- there is a very important question which this experiment may answer! The dehybridizing Lizzano seed someone sent me seemed to all be a micro-dwarf (the F3 seed) and the F2 seed is seed I grew of Lizzano F1 to confirm if it indeed segregates out rugose dwarfs! If so it might be very useful in breeding resistant dwarf tomato project 2.0 tomatoes. This could be the case as Lizzano F1 is a small tomato for hanging baskets or patio planters and could have a rugose dwarf as one of its parents.

The One! is probably most likely a great grand-child of S35, S36, or S37 from Joseph’s selections several years ago. If not it is a great great grand child of the first year Joseph shared the elite segregates of the promiscuous tomato project with me. It’s grandparent in 2021 had excellent fruity flavor open flowers and exserted stigmas and its parent in 2022 had at least ordinary to good flavor. I did not particularly expect it to be healthy for Julia!