I've joined the modern age

I've finally used the eggplant emoji in natural online language.

Paired with a bee.

To describe certain behaviours I suspect a plant got up to last year.

This was a tomato that didn't ripen much in the way of fruit but has characteristics showing up in a lot of my saved seed, and had some pretty available pollen.

I do not suspect my conversational partner will fully understand but that's ok.

Tomato Crosses

Crosses done today:

In the garden:

Taiga, exserted unemasculated x minsk early (offspring should be RL, might have bee-crosses)
Zesty green (karma miracle?) exserted unemasculated x silvery fir tree

On the deck:

KARMA purple exserted unemasculated x silvery fir tree
Carbon exserted unemasculated x sweet cheriette (offspring will have red fruit)
Zesty green (probably karma miracle) exserted unemasculated x silvery fir
Zesty green (probably karma miracle) exserted unemasculated x sweet cheriette (offspring will be RL)
Emasculated uralskiy ranniy x minsk early (then realized I'd used the wrong pollen donor and stuck some silvery fir tree pollen in there because why not?)

Also: Karen olivier's breeding, but even just "most" of the even slightly more complex flowers, are very open right now for the first couple fruits. In the mixed patch a lot of the plants have their first few flowers pretty open and then some seem to close up for subsequent flowers. My mixed patch is planted from the earliest fruits from last year's plants, if I recall correctly.