Paying it forward to myself
Aug. 11th, 2022 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormTo shake off a bad day I went into the garden and did a bunch of manual tomato crosses.
The garden had my first ripe tomato, an orange promiscuously-pollinated one with light green speckles on it. That's kind of neat, since the plant next to it has still-unripe fruit that are pale green with darker green speckles; this one was dark green while growing and ripened into the speckles. I think they're quite fetching. The flowers on the plant weren't deeply exserted, but the anther cones were open and a little reflexed and the end of the stamen was visible.
I should probably test its neighbour for ripe-when-greenness. It's really where having this many tomato plants falls apart: I don't handle the fruit until they show colour, so I don't know when they're ripe if they're green-when-ripe.
Anyhow, the crosses from today are as follows:
The minsk early/zesty green one is questionable, it was a weird flower with a bunch of catfacing and so I couldn't emasculate it properly, and then the minsk early has regular leaf red fruit and zesty green has potato leaf green fruit, both of which are recessive, so I won't really know in the F1 whether it crosses properly. Oh well.
The garden had my first ripe tomato, an orange promiscuously-pollinated one with light green speckles on it. That's kind of neat, since the plant next to it has still-unripe fruit that are pale green with darker green speckles; this one was dark green while growing and ripened into the speckles. I think they're quite fetching. The flowers on the plant weren't deeply exserted, but the anther cones were open and a little reflexed and the end of the stamen was visible.
I should probably test its neighbour for ripe-when-greenness. It's really where having this many tomato plants falls apart: I don't handle the fruit until they show colour, so I don't know when they're ripe if they're green-when-ripe.
Anyhow, the crosses from today are as follows:
| Mother | Father |
| Lucinda | Minsk Early |
| Lucinda | Taiga |
| Mikado Black | Minsk Early |
| Silvery Fir Tree | Taiga |
| Silvery Fir Tree | Uluru Ochre |
| Taiga | Mikado Black |
| Taiga | Minsk Early |
| Uluru Ochre | Mikado Black |
| Zesty Green | Mikado Black |
| Zesty Green | Minsk Early |
| Zesty Green | Uluru Ochre |
| Minsk | Zesty Green |
The minsk early/zesty green one is questionable, it was a weird flower with a bunch of catfacing and so I couldn't emasculate it properly, and then the minsk early has regular leaf red fruit and zesty green has potato leaf green fruit, both of which are recessive, so I won't really know in the F1 whether it crosses properly. Oh well.
