Just came across this
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...cf8ebc&t=38728
It would appear that 'blue' tomatoes have a higher tendency to outcross than other tomatoes. As blue tomatoes are of course pretty new, this finding is also pretty recent. I have not seen any evidence of it myself yet, but I am on the lookout. Maybe if we want to save pure seeds in the vicinity of blue tomatoes (like in the same greenhouse), we may need to be careful and flower bag and label a flower truss and seed save from bagged tomatoes. I need to go back and see which tomatoes I had growing next to the blues. Obviously 'white' pale yellow tomatoes are especially at risk. Even though the results could be visually very attractive, with my pure line seed saver hat on it is necessary to know about potential problems.
The writer goes further to say that there may be other influences beyond slightly higher cross pollination rates, but this is all up for further research. On fb at the moment they are looking for growers who wish to be involved in undertaking such research, specifically on the TaterMater fb group.
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...cf8ebc&t=38728
It would appear that 'blue' tomatoes have a higher tendency to outcross than other tomatoes. As blue tomatoes are of course pretty new, this finding is also pretty recent. I have not seen any evidence of it myself yet, but I am on the lookout. Maybe if we want to save pure seeds in the vicinity of blue tomatoes (like in the same greenhouse), we may need to be careful and flower bag and label a flower truss and seed save from bagged tomatoes. I need to go back and see which tomatoes I had growing next to the blues. Obviously 'white' pale yellow tomatoes are especially at risk. Even though the results could be visually very attractive, with my pure line seed saver hat on it is necessary to know about potential problems.
The writer goes further to say that there may be other influences beyond slightly higher cross pollination rates, but this is all up for further research. On fb at the moment they are looking for growers who wish to be involved in undertaking such research, specifically on the TaterMater fb group.
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