Forgot that I tried planting a silvery fir tree tomato in the garden. Ultimately failed, started it a bit too late and fungus gnats were in one of the soil mixes I was using - killed off a lot of other plants too. One survived and put out around 6 fruits, had more flowers - but it died early on. Didn't really put it in the main garden. Just so happened to put it near my exerted pimp. Forgot about it after it died. I moved exerted pimp seedlings with large cotyledons, thinking they might have crossed with a domestic. First set of leaves came on, looking at slender spiked leaves - one side is flat looking though. Thinking they crossed... The cotyledons all have a sort of spike as well. Can't remember if silvery fir's did that as well.
Noticed a few other odd leaves so far, might post some images tomorrow or once the plants are bigger. The leaves weren't uniform on single plants with the exerted pimp parent. Some of the crosses I am seeing seeing look odd. Won't be able to tell if any are habrochaites crosses until they get to a decent size. Granted some plants are showing visible hairs on the leaves, which is promising I suppose. Mostly looking to try and get a highly exerted stigma with pimpinellifolium genes. Any wild species that are able to cross with it should be easy enough to screen for, wild species are mostly all exerted as well. Meaning I will just have to select for stigma size after a certain point. When I get something with good taste disease resistance - maybe leaf - calyx type - seed color, I can cross it with a domestic just for larger size. I could just backcross if I lost something while attempting to get a beefsteak trait or larger size. The Big Hill x wild exerted crosses already look promising from what I have seen posts about. Smaller fruited F1s and so on would be easier to handle inside during the winter though. Allowing a mass population to go "wild" a bit on a property could eventually lead to a really well adapted plant.
Oh yeah habrochaites have buds again, along with pimpinellifolium. First frost in October. Hoping I get a few fruit, even if under ripe. Might cause some changes for next generations seed. Bees refuse to visit the pimpinellifolium due to the small flower size, unless the habrochaites directly next to it is flowering as well. Could use this to screen out crosses more efficiently in the future.
