Purple Haze

[dice]

Travis is right, Purple Haze was an F4 x Black Cherry cross
(history is here:
http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/index.php/Purple_Haze
).

My point still stands, though, in that the F4 parent was
a unique combination of genes as far as we are concerned
and not reproducible. Even if someone tried, how would they
get the right F2, F3, and F4? Ask Keith to taste a few thousand
of them and see if one of them is it? Face it, anyone who tries
is only ever going to get close at best, even the original breeder.

The suggested crosses and possible backcrosses above are
ways to cross Black Cherry with sets of genes that are at least
in the neighborhood of the original F4 parent of Purple Haze
(and are stable OPs as well, which leads to reproducible
results).

BC x Spudakee and BC x Vorlon would probably eliminate
the Brandywine lineage, but the F1s might still compete with
Purple Haze as a desireable, quality tomato. (Vorlon
is a stabilized Cherokee Purple x Pruden's Purple. Spudakee
is Cherokee Purple x unknown PL, as far as I know. So some
subset of the Cherokee Purple genes and all of the Black Cherry
genes would still be there.)