Open tomato flower from commercial variety

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This is my first year growing tomatoes and I was happy to see open flowers before I’ve even started replanting my own seeds. This is a “Mortgage Lifter” tomato, I’m not sure if open flowers is typical of this variety or if I just got lucky.

It’s only partially open and the style isn’t poking out at all, but it’s a good start. Going to brush some pollen from other (closed flower) varieties to get a head start on crossing.

Is this typical of commercial varieties? I have access to a free seed library, are there other varieties that reliably produce open flowers?

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Ive found that some old heirlooms especially potatoe leaf varieties often have open flowers, for instance i grew gold medal, watermelon, and pineapple this year and they all that open flowers with some stigmas pretruding… Id be interested in going to neighboring farms and looking at the different varieties there growing to see if theres already some heirlooms that do well in your area with a promiscuous habit!

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Those are potentially useful genetics. Alot of us started with tomatoes like that!

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