They should have a shot at being pretty interesting in the F2! In many ways growing them out to stability is the hard part. The initial cross is just the start of the work.
I think finding new ones for years will be fun. The only hard part might be picking the best of the bunch each year.
I think for an experienced gardener like ourselves who is continuing on with gardening it isn’t too hard.
Yea, I’ll figure it out. It’ll be like with my sweet potatoes l guess. I’ve been discarding good ones for years, in favor of one or two great ones. I just don’t have space to follow every one to see how it might improve the next year.
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The lines I grew out in my little light garden are doing ok. I thinned out the tall seedlings in all cases but only two of the four strains am I sure produced dwarfs. The thinned seedlings I planted in some overcrowded pots.
286 or F3 Dwarf Gloria’s Treat x Pimps. Notes say from orange or dark yellow mother with good flavor and a favorite.
I don’t know if line 286 came out as dwarf for sure. I weeded out the bigger ones- transplanted them to a different pot really. The smallest remaining look a smidge rugose.
339 The One x MM. Mother was my favorite of the 2024 grow out: a rugose potato leaf dwarf with high anthocyanin expression and good flavor.
I’m not sure if this came out dwarf or not- looks a smidge rugose. But all were potato leaf so I’m thinking this might be the first semi-stable line I’ve pulled out of the Lofthouse promiscuous tomatoes. They’ve always been unstable as a rule even when I’ve been trying to stabilize them! Excited to grow more- this potato leaf strain will be what I grow in the isolation garden for this project this year. I might just direct seed them again and weed out any regular leaf ones. If I get a few red ones I just won’t save seed from those.
314 F2 Dwarf Eagle Smiley x (MMM x LA1375) 1/2 strength antho. Very promising flavor in F1.
314 has at least one nice dwarf seedling.
366 F2 Payette x (MMM x LA1375)
366 has at least one nicely dwarf seedling. Kind of a fun thing since this dwarf strain comes from a regional source and might have a different origin than most dwarf tomatoes.
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I planted the rest of my seedlings out today including a couple of flats of late planted domestics that just had their first true leaves. I hope they do ok but if not, it is ok. My purpose for growing them- including a lot of my own domestic crosses, is to make a wild cross with them so that they meet my equation of local x wild x fancy.