My Experiment Came Out Pretty Nice So Far

marc_groleau · August 17, 2013

So last year I decided to try my hand at cross pollination. I crossed pollen from Cherokee Purple with Pineapple mother. Then I tried it the other way around. So far I have a lot of nice ripe fruit from the Pineapple mother and lots of large green fruit on the Cherokee Purple mother but nothing ripe yet. Both plants are very productive. So here's some photos of the Pineapple female cross. It's a very deep pink and very meaty F1 with very few seeds. It has a nice fruity taste, definitely not anything like Cherokee Purple. I'd say one trait inherited from the CH P is it's time to maturity. It started producing ripe fruit exactly at the same time as my CH. P. plants. The Cherokee Purple Mother is taking its sweet time to ripen and probably gets that trait from the Pineapple line. I can't wait to see how that one turns out when it's ripe.

August 17, 2013	#1
marc_groleau Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 444	My Experiment Came Out Pretty Nice So Far So last year I decided to try my hand at cross pollination. I crossed pollen from Cherokee Purple with Pineapple mother. Then I tried it the other way around. So far I have a lot of nice ripe fruit from the Pineapple mother and lots of large green fruit on the Cherokee Purple mother but nothing ripe yet. Both plants are very productive. So here's some photos of the Pineapple female cross. It's a very deep pink and very meaty F1 with very few seeds. It has a nice fruity taste, definitely not anything like Cherokee Purple. I'd say one trait inherited from the CH P is it's time to maturity. It started producing ripe fruit exactly at the same time as my CH. P. plants. The Cherokee Purple Mother is taking its sweet time to ripen and probably gets that trait from the Pineapple line. I can't wait to see how that one turns out when it's ripe. Last edited by marc_groleau; August 17, 2013 at 02:04 PM.