Wolf Pack - Pink Furry Boar x Ananas Noir

[PaddyMc]

Wolf Pack is my working name for this line. The goal here is a colorful, great tasting, long keeping fruit (Pink Furry Boar keeps really well). The fun side effect was that the F2's presented me with an embarrassment of riches.

The parents --
Pink Furry Boar-
http://www.wildboarfarms.com/images/Pink-Furry-Boar.jpg
(Mine looked just like Brad's pic, almost a true white background)
Very good flavor, though not very meaty (big locules)

Ananas Noir --
Super classic, pretty tri-color, great flavor

Here's the F2's:



JL 2. One of two I'll be carrying forward. The pictures don't do it justice, truly, truly beautiful. A bit "fuzzy" too, which was one of the thing's I'm looking for (fuzzyness and long keeping seem connected).




7-5. The other one I'm carrying forward. Looks and taste for days. Keeping time, average, but hoping to improve that.



JL 6-6, #3 choice, If I had more space I'd do this one too. Kept well, excellent taste.


JL 4. Kind of a unique pink and white bicolor. Very sweet, and quite large. But the texture was off - soft and mushy. Could be the HUGE ammount of rain we had. I'd for sure carry it forward if I had more space than I do, but you've got to make choices.... If anybody's interested, I definitely would be happy to send out some seed.



JL 6 and JL 7. The looks were there for 6, but the taste was weak.


JL 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7


JL1


JL 7



Good looks, good size, fuzzy, but bland taste. Another one with potential if anybody's looking to experiment


7-4


7-6 Good tasting red, but there's enough red tomatoes in the world.


5-5 and 6-6

As with any of my breeding projects, I'm happy to share seeds provided people post their results here and send some seeds from the good segregates back home.

[charline]

wow, thats an interesting cross !
I love striped and I love furry tomatoes and I adore Ananas noire.
I would like to grow some of your F2 seeds.
If you dont mind to send to France , please send me a pm

[charline]

thank you Paddy! Seeds are here. Cant wait for spring to come.....

[Mashman]

Great stuff. Going to send you some gloves Paddy. Hands look to be showing wear

[moray-eel-bite]

Hi Paddy,

I'd love to get the Jl2, 4 and 6 if you have seed to spare. I'm in Canada if you're willing to send this way.

Cheers!

[PaddyMc]

Originally Posted by Mashman

Great stuff. Going to send you some gloves Paddy. Hands look to be showing wear

That's because one of my other hobbies is mountain biking - massive crash burned right through my gloves!

[PaddyMc]

Originally Posted by moray-eel-bite

Hi Paddy,

I'd love to get the Jl2, 4 and 6 if you have seed to spare. I'm in Canada if you're willing to send this way.

Cheers!

Sure. PM me your address

[PaddyMc]

From JL2 -
Some of the very best tasting 'mater's I grew this year.
Long lasting, meaty, and complex, as well as fuzzy and long-keeping. I'm proud of this line.




FY 7-5. The "Peach", This one is a go for sure! Really great taste, and looks pretty unique. Also very meaty and low-seed





FY 7-5 and FY 7-7. 7-7 is the second best. Quite sweet





One of the rare volunteers were you know exactly what it is. Also the biggest fruited.

[Mashman]

Wow! Brilliant cross. Very nice Paddy. Love your work.

Mash

[Mike723]

What beautiful crosses! I'm going to play around with some Noire crosses this year myself.. I absolutely love the F2 up top, great job!!

[natural]

L-V. Very nice pink. Many were 6 to 7 oz size. Good flavor 8/10. No splitting.
Bill

[PaddyMc]

Were they meaty, or did they have hollow locules? I really like the color of that one. Did you get a range of shades, or were they all pretty dark pink?

[natural]

they were meaty and juicy. No hollow locules. Perfect texture as well. Not too soft. Very consistent coloring. All the same shade of pink.

[PaddyMc]

Since Natural posted his, I thought I'd better post mine.

From last years FY 7-5 "Peach" --



FY 6-8 (on the left, underripe in the front, ripe in the rear), and FY 6-5
6-5 was the 2nd earliest, with good flavor.
FY 6-8 was the earliest and had great flavor. Both of these will get carried forward.





FY 6-4
Extra fuzzy. Taste 8.5/10



L-M
The round shape was a bit different from the other "peach-type" segs.



FY 6-11 and FY 6-13
Both bigger, fuzzy, and not as tasty as the others (though still pretty good).





FY-M (6-1 I believe, the writing wiped off)
Much bigger than the others, though the latest to ripen. Taste 8/10

This year's F4's from other segs --


PFA FY 6-17 yell/red Str, pira, T6


FY 6-24, 6-25, 6-23, 6-20
6-20 was productive, had an awesome bicolor interior, pretty good taste.
FY 6-24 -- good flavor.
The others didn't get saved.

[natural]

I like the peach segregate. Looks very similar to the L-V with respect to size and texture.