What Would be the Ideal Micro?

[dfollett]

Originally Posted by akgardengirl

What lines are they from? It would be great to get that size on some of the lines I am growing out but right now it is just cherry sized.
Sue

These are from some new crosses I just made last spring. Everything I had up until these included a single cross with a large fruited indeterminate and a micro cherry. I only found one line that showed anything larger than what I call XL Cherry. Last spring, I crossed some of the unstable micros from those original crosses back to other large fruited multicolored indeterminates. I grew out the F2s last summer. These are among the first F3s I’ve grown from those crosses. I’m sure that second injection of larger fruited genes is what makes the difference.

The mama to the fine leaf one is from the 33X line I sent you. I’d be happy to send you some F2 seeds from some of these second-generation crosses if you want – but you’d have to micro-hunt.