Blight resistant tomato plants

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[Redbaron]

How does legend taste?

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Sweet with just the right amount of acid flavor.

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Here is a little more information on the legend tomato

Legend Tomato
Conventional & Organic

68 days. If late blight has been a problem in your garden, you should try growing Legend. Legend has shown strong tolerance of late blight fungus US8 and US11. So even in the most virulent areas, gardeners have a great chance of harvesting ripe tomatoes. Legend not only demonstrates tolerance of late blight, but is also one of the earliest maturing slicing tomato we know of. Legend produces amazingly sweet tomatoes, with just the right amount of acid flavor. The big 4-5 inch parthenocarpic fruit are glossy red, with a uniform round shape. Please keep in mind that being tolerant of blight is just that: tolerant-not immune. Bred and released by Dr. Jim Baggett at Oregon State University. Determinate.

[Tom Wagner]

I hope Legend works for you.

Legend, for me anyway, is highly susceptible to the late blight we have in Western Washinton. Summer of 2004 was my first test and it died as quickly as other lines...Survivors during that year were WV700 and a few segregating lines from my blight resistant stock I brought up from California that same year.

Crosses of Legend were susceptible the later years. My guess is that it is no longer tolerant just as many potato varieties which had been tolerant in years past are no longer fully or even partly resistant.

The newer lines that carry PH-2 and PH-3 from one side of the hybrid are not fully protected either for me. I have OP lines that are homozygous for these genes and they perform well...Skykomish, Magic Trick, Make My Day, Early Sue, etc.

Jim Baggett's lines were released quite a long time ago and just like potato varieties...the verbage continures as if nothing will ever change. Ironically, the PH-2 gene came from the WV700 in the pedigree but somehow doesn't measure up to the ancestor. PH-2 by itself is in several tomatoes but is no longer a weapon against LB.

One of the parents of Legend is Centennial which ironically performed a bit better against LB for me in Washington. Legend was released 13 years ago and I believe the data is sorely out of date about how well it resists Late Blight.

I may offer Legend x Green Zebra progeny if someone wants to try their luck on the recombinants fighting LB somewhat.

For me, any amount of resistance/tolerance should be measured in full exposure for the complete season to determine the value of that LB data.

The video was nice to see but without showing an adjacent variety fully black, dead, and slimy....what can you deduce?

Late Blight resistance breeding fully consumes my research in tomato and potato breeding priorities. If I am blunt about my opinions...it is because opinions don't count for much without proof.

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That's funny you asked about the adjacent tomato plants they are fully overtaken by Blight I just took two videos today so as soon as I get them uploaded I will post them for you

The adjacent tomato plants are going to be the black krim and pineapple tomato

I'm not sure where you got your seed but these legends plants I started from seed are definitely resistant.

Thanks for your advice I appreciate that.. I would definitely like to try anything you would suggest

[Tom Wagner]

That's funny you asked about the adjacent tomato plants they are fully overtaken by Blight I just took two videos today so as soon as I get them uploaded I will post them for you

The adjacent tomato plants are going to be the black krim and pineapple tomato

I'm not sure where you got your seed but these legends plants I started from seed are definitely resistant.

Phonetool,

Yes, we would like to see and hear the rest of the story with the next video.

My seed was breeder seed directly from Baggett/Myers at OSU. It seems that PH-2 is enough in certain strains of late blight. It was even when I was in California and I grew tomatoes in test rials in many counties. Most of my breeding work to incorporate whatever blight resistance I could get was in the Bakersfield area of California. LB was never the problem for me as it is up here in Washington. That Legend works for you is good news for me as a breeder...I could continue to use the breeding work with Legend progenies and offer them in some glimmer of hope of resistance to areas like yours.

If you want I could custom breed Black Krim and Pineapple with my best LB res. lines and suggest these F-1 hybrids as a test plot next season for you. As far as I know, no one is offering F-1 hybrids of those two.

In the next few weeks, I am going to re-locate my Legend breeding lines to see if there is anything to send to Hawaii to grow out and observe. When or if I am in Hawaii later on ....I will look at these lines and see if there is a cross I could make or just list the new Legend OP prototypes.

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I have three legend tomato plants that are about 3 feet from this plant the other one is about 12 feet from this plant and it is the one that's shown in the first video

For some reason on the west side of Los Angeles this area is known for having a blight issue so I am definitely willing to grow test and make videos to backup claims of blight resistant strains I enjoy that. I just bought a new camera that does high-definition 720P so I'm putting my two favorite hobbies together I make my own compost all organic and I do use some secret ingredients. I would like the legend /pineapple and if I could find and test a legend Ferris wheel mix. if you decide you want some seeds from my legend plant I can send them over for you to try once they're ready They are not immune but they are resistant it's taking forever for me to upload the video because it's high-definition the file is so large I like to upload it to the site that I do that hosts the video because people don't have to download it to watch or sit through a commercial There is a big market here in Los Angeles for blight resistant strains I will upload the third video soon.


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[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for posting those shots of tomatoes with the late blight. I will be listing lots of late blight resistant or near resistant material right along. I suspect offering F-1 hybrids might be a great way to offer high yields and LB res. together.

Keep in touch. I will be taking videos of tomatoes soon and later only as well. Hope to have the blight hitting some time this growing season to quickly document the stages. I am having a professional do the videos and edit the shot with sped up elapses and what not.

Tom

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Okay here is the third video and it's showing another plant with the starting of blight right next to the legend plant.

I will post an update video in a few weeks to see if the legend plants are still resisting the blight infection.


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[RayR]

Have you confirmed that you have Late Blight? I can't make out the finer details from the videos but I don't see the rotting fruit or the black or brown stem lesions that would be symptoms of Late Blight, unless the race of Late Blight on the west coast has different symptoms from US23 that I'm familiar with here in the east. It just appears to me to be an advanced stage of Early Blight or other fungal disease, I would expect the plants to be far more devastated if it were Late Blight.

[Sun City Linda]

I have never had Late Blight but I have the same thoughts as Ray. From pictures I have seen, I would expect the stems and fruit to be affected. Some of your pictures look like my tomatoes look when they get Tomato Russet Mites.

I have never heard about Late Blight in LA. If you have any articles or other info about it I would be most interested to learn more. Thanks!

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Thanks everyone for your opinions I'm open to any suggestions and I will take some still pictures of the leaves and stems and post them.

There is a community garden about 2 miles from my garden Here's what they are having trouble with blight / verticillium / fusarium virus

Here is what one of the master gardeners and veteran gardeners say about this area and its community garden

http://www.oceanviewfarms.net/tomatoes.html

late blight 2 miles from me
http://www.oceanviewfarms.net/tomatoblight.html




Any suggestions would help I like to narrow this down

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Here are the photos you requested

[MrBig46]

I am testing four Dutch varieties of tomato which are declared as tolerant to late blight. It is the problem, tahat late blight is nowhere ( already second year). I shall end these attempts maybe.
Vladimír