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Post by kctomato on Feb 27, 2011 13:06:05 GMT -8
double up on everything and never plant everything at one time
if something is 1 of a kind never rush setting it out
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 15:13:16 GMT -8
An intriguing and informative thread. Which lays to rest all the other gobbledygook I've read. It makes me keen to not always believe everything I hear, but to do my own homework.
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Post by thefuture on Mar 27, 2011 16:41:43 GMT -8
Good news. At least 2 of the F3s made it back from the dead...
plus I have the 4 or 5 that were never planted out doing well in pots.
The F2 seeds I had left fared less well. One eaten to the stump by something and the other seedlings trashed by (subsequent) high winds.
A few more weeks to go til reliably calmer weather.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2011 5:50:53 GMT -8
-- Here are pictures of the (10) seeds I got from Solana Seeds in Canada. I gave 6 seeds to a friend and kept these four for myself. -- Notice that they identify the seeds as both P20 Blue and OSU Blue. I did not do very well in French class. Could someone please interpret?
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Post by Tom Wagner on Mar 28, 2011 19:49:04 GMT -8
Roughly said....sow 5 to 8 weeks before the last frost in the spring. Cover the seed with 5 mm of soil media. Transplant to the field late May or early June. Place plants 1 and 1/2 feet to up to 2 ft apart in rows a bit over 3 ft wide. The tomato is from development of Jim Myers known either as OSU Blue or P-20 Blue.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2011 2:45:11 GMT -8
Roughly said....sow 5 to 8 weeks before the last frost in the spring. Cover the seed with 5 mm of soil media. Transplant to the field late May or early June. Place plants 1 and 1/2 feet to up to 2 ft apart in rows a bit over 3 ft wide. The tomato is from development of Jim Myers known either as OSU Blue or P-20 Blue. Thanks Mr. Wagner.
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Post by samyaza on Dec 28, 2011 2:41:37 GMT -8
About genes for blue tomatoes : Tom mentionned Aft, introduced from S. chilense and atv, introduced from S. cheesmaniae. Both are present in P-20 and probably most of his blues, but there are also : This one was introduced from S. lycopersicoides but is homozygous lethal. I don't think it's present in P-20. It must be tricky to breed within a combination of genes for the blue color with Aft. You may not notice it was lost during the breeding process. The Purple Smudge variety is an other example of blue, introduced from S. peruvianum. The gene doesn't seem to have been indentified and named yet. A last gene that seems very interesting to me : the well-known high pigment, hp-1. See what can be expected of a combinaison Aft/Aft hp-1/hp-1 : www.springerimages.com/Images/LifeSciences/1-10.1007_978-1-4419-0194-1_12-3
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