Forum area for discussing hybridizing tomatoes in technical terms and information pertinent to trait/variety specific long-term (1+ years) growout projects.
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
November 18, 2015 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
|
This is a really cool old thread and worthy of a bump.
I didn't know there was a leaf rolling gene. I thought it was only caused by environmental stress - me doing something wrong as a grower. My HJB also had leaf roll; I thought it was just unhealthy. I also culled a plant of another variety earlier in the summer due to leaf roll. I was worried it had some sort of disease. It probably just had the leaf roll gene. |
November 18, 2015 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: glendora ca
Posts: 2,560
|
Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues has the leaf roll gene indeed. Every one of the plants i have grown has leaf curl. They do great but loom absolutely pathetic.
__________________
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." |
November 19, 2015 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Near Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 1,940
|
|
November 20, 2015 | #19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Evansville, IN
Posts: 2,984
|
Marginal leaf curl can be genetically tied to the nipple gene.
You may see marginal leaf curl in tomato varieties where the breeder used the nipple gene to tighten up the blossom scar in hybrid tomato cultivars. The leaf curl associated with the nipple gene can result in higher susceptibility to Early Blight in those cultivars with the nipple gene driven marginal leaf curl phenomenon. EDIT: http://tgc.ifas.ufl.edu/vol37/vol37h...l37gardner.htm Last edited by travis; November 20, 2015 at 05:11 PM. Reason: to add link to research summary |
November 20, 2015 | #20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
|
interesting
|
November 21, 2015 | #21 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Posts: 3,099
|
Throw me in the boat of people who will grow a tomato just cause its pretty to look at. Pretty food just taste better
Edit: Most of time... |
June 17, 2016 | #22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: MS
Posts: 211
|
I just stumbled onto this older thread. I'm hoping Tom can comment on physiological leaf rolling more. I'm growing Wagner Blue Green this year for the first time. I have a lot of leaf roll on my WBG plant. Not observing this in any of the other varieties including those planted in the same bed. So, my question is: Is this just something WBG does because of genetics? If so, I'm assuming I should just accept it and not be concerned.
|
June 21, 2016 | #23 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Florence KY
Posts: 234
|
Quote:
We grew an Indigo Rose last year. It didn't taste bad, but there are varieties that we enjoy more. |
|
June 22, 2016 | #24 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Vancouver Island Canada BC
Posts: 1,253
|
Dwarf Shadow Boxing is very beautiful and hopefully tastes as good as it looks..
Last edited by GrowingCoastal; June 22, 2016 at 04:36 PM. Reason: omission |
August 15, 2016 | #25 | |
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Co-Founder
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Niagara Frontier
Posts: 942
|
Quote:
|
|
August 15, 2016 | #26 | |
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Co-Founder
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Niagara Frontier
Posts: 942
|
Quote:
|
|
August 16, 2016 | #27 | |
BANNED FOR LIFE
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 13,333
|
Quote:
I have a basket of 50 or so Porters waiting to be eaten sitting in front of me August 15, and the Porter plants have flowers. In Texas, that's something special in August. Dancing with Smurfs would work too in place of the HJB. I've grown many blue and Indigos. HJB is #1 and Smurfs are a close second in my book. |
|
August 16, 2016 | #28 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 319
|
Almost the same choice as AlittleSalt, but Dancing with Smurfs is tops for me followed by Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues, though there's not much between them. They are both good cherries that do well here, I grow either one or both each year.
|
August 16, 2016 | #29 | |
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Co-Founder
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Niagara Frontier
Posts: 942
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|