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Post by heirloomchef on Jul 21, 2013 16:26:36 GMT -8
I know this was pretty much a grab bag of options, but I am curious if some of these seeds might have been F1's? I saved seeds from several of my SFBZ plants and some of them are wildly segregating this year. Like this one that just had some antho speckles on a small yellow cherry. It had good flavor but wasn't that visually interesting so this year I only put out 4 plants from it to bring it forward a generation. But I'm seeing larger fruits, different shapes, some stripes and different levels of anthocyanin expression in the fruit like this is a F2 generation, making me wish I had planted more of them. Attachments:
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jul 21, 2013 21:30:49 GMT -8
The SWBZ or Seattle's Woolly Blue Zebra was an introductory element for me and a treat for others. Who sells F-2 as if it could be worth anything? The name is a fleeting name...maybe no tomato will ever be called that again. I expect folks to find new segregations and (hint) share them back with me. F-3 progenies can be wild even from a single F-2 plant when there are so many recessives involved.
The blue specks indicate that the tomato is carrying only one of the Aft genes. Next year...you will get mostly that again, but a few very blue and a few no blue at all. However, due the the nature of chromosome arms splitting and re-splicing...with deletions and additions...it is a wonderful crap shoot.
The yellow may hang in there for years only to pop up green...
Saving and mixing the F-2 plants and the seed and then mixing all the F-3 seed from all the plants and so forth would be a perpetual fountain of color.
Thanks for sharing.
Tom
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Post by heirloomchef on Jul 22, 2013 20:11:14 GMT -8
This was actually one of the ones from the Searching For the Blue Zebra packages you sent out as bonus seeds with orders a year or two ago. I've got quite a few of the woolly lines growing this year as well, and they are looking interesting as well. Here are a couple of examples of what is coming out of the seeds from those speckled cherries. I was quite pleasantly surprised... I'm hoping they do ripen to yellow flesh, I have so many green lines. ![SFBZ Yellow Speckled #1]() ![SFBZ Yellow Speckled #2]() |
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Post by thefuture on Apr 27, 2016 15:10:36 GMT -8
I got my first SFBZ segregations this spring. Some yellow and blue, others similar to chocolate blues being green and blue. The blue (purple) cap dominates. Some were mostly purple, a few with no quite stripes but lines around the tomatoe. I have perhaps 4 different lines to work with now. Taste was refreshing, not strong.
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Post by terryinmichigan on May 8, 2016 19:47:33 GMT -8
I know this was pretty much a grab bag of options, but I am curious if some of these seeds might have been F1's? I saved seeds from several of my SFBZ plants and some of them are wildly segregating this year. Like this one that just had some antho speckles on a small yellow cherry. It had good flavor but wasn't that visually interesting so this year I only put out 4 plants from it to bring it forward a generation. But I'm seeing larger fruits, different shapes, some stripes and different levels of anthocyanin expression in the fruit like this is a F2 generation, making me wish I had planted more of them. I have two Searching For The Blue Zebra F-2 plants in my greenhouse right now. It was the last two seeds from the original batch of F-2 seed that Tom and Rob sent out years ago. This is one variety that I wish I could get a hold of a lot of F-2 seed so I could grow a couple hundred [maybe in 2017]. I will post some pictures and/or video within the next couple of months.
I love not knowing what you are going to get but have endless possibilities. 
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