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Wonderful that one of your own is your earliest and so prolific. Something to be very proud of
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It is pretty fun, but hectic for a few months. Take care, KP pics soon. LOL |
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I have a feeling it will be worth waiting for...
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We had a family gathering at the farm this evening and tasted a few tomatoes.
Bloody Butcher x Yellow Brandywine F1 Good, interesting taste, pretty complex Cowlick's Brandywine x Bloody Butcher F2 X Bloody Butcher x Dester F1 ( F2) Excellent taste, a superior tomato, very complex rich tomato taste. Rebel Yell, sweet with a complex wrap around it, always a favorite. Mat- Su Express, very tasty, complex tomato taste, very strong tomato bite. Bloody Butcher x Dester F3 (pink), excellent, very yummy sweet complex tomato wrap Yellow Brandywine, not so good yet, was a touch under ripe. The whole group agreed that a couple of our crosses stood up against Rebel Yell. I think the favorite was the 3 way cross. It is the large red tomato left of YBW Last edited by AKmark; June 4, 2018 at 02:18 AM. |
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What a plate of good looking tomatoes! Thanks for the taste test results, so do you have a name picked out for
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Another good tasting one was Deshka that was created by Sherry from Stupice and Cherokee Purple, it is a great tasting tomato. It is stable, red, and F8. I should be tearing into some Chapman next week, have been eating an F2 cross of it trying to make a selection to move forward. Good stuff. Going to take the camera down today and snap a pic of Karma Pink today ![]() |
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Omg finally
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Mark, it is so nice to see that you are still experimenting, and not just with crosses but with the size of the buckets. I remember when you grew cuttings in small containers and posted pictures. So happy it worked out for you. Impressive.
P.S. Your Mat-Su Express looks amazing.
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**Sigh**...just **Sigh** with a deep breath. I can only swoon at all your pics, you are a supreme master of the tomato kingdom, Sir Mark.
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This is year 4 for me using this system. Still learning and working out kinks.
Mark, you have been a huge help. This is probably the best crop I've had yet. And I guess it should be as we can make improvements every year off of last year's failures. Mark, here are some pics. I am wondering about picking off leaves below the first fruit truss. The HG manual seems to say that the leaves below the truss feed that truss, yet I know you and others pick those off at some point to hasten the ripening of the truss. Looking at my pics would you take those off? 6-7-18a.jpg 6-7-18b.jpg 6-7-18c.jpg 6-7-18d.jpg |
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At that point they don't grow anymore, and I don't think you will see any difference in sugar content either. Glad you are rolling along. Last edited by AKmark; June 7, 2018 at 10:42 AM. |
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This is a nice Rebel Yell that I picked today that contains the seeds of my newest cross. Rebel Yell x Mat-Su Express. This RY plant was mid season, a touch earlier than others, and MSE can run from early season to mid on some plants. The MSE I have been trying have been excellent, a real tomato bite, RY is a touch sweeter and complex too.
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Thanks Mark
One row is big beef one is big dena Denas aren’t as quite round as B.B. I have a 3rd row not in those pics that’s a mix of things including heirlooms. In that row I have my first successful cross. Can’t wait to get seeds in a couple weeks and sow them so can observe and taste the f1s in September. |
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Not a bad cross at all, not by any stretch. What a beauty.
The other multi-parent Dester cross sounds mighty interesting too (#95). Quick question: did the other parents help in reducing Dester's early blight susceptibility? I love the taste/texture of Dester, however, it gets walloped big time with EB in my neck of the woods, even with preventative measures. |
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