A probably incomplete listing of my favorite breeding material at the moment and what I would hope to grow out of it in 2020:
Big Hill x Wild4 F2 seed should segregate out all kinds of interesting things. Some of them may even taste good. This will be my main growout in 2020
7 seeds I got from a Hab cross last year that was ok tasting, a little larger fruited and had very interesting colors, will plant these with the above
Any wild hybrids I find in a packet of Blue Ambrosia I wiped pollen onto the stigmas of the parent
Any wild hybrids I find in a packet of Big Hill I wiped pollen onto the stigmas of the parent and it was growing next to wilds, 3/4 wilds, and half wilds
- the above four I will grow together any obvious hybrids I prick out of the bottom two packets plus the top two. Plus any and all new seed Joseph may send. This should be a lot of plants I have maybe ~600 seeds, if half germinate that's 300 plants plus any hybrids I prick out etc. I plan to plant at least part of this block on a three foot spacing. If I end up with too many plants I will go down to a 1 foot spacing on as much of the block as necessary.
Blue Ambrosia (exserted stigmas, yellow, with blue skin)(1 plant)
Big Hill (exserted stigmas, bicolor)(100 plants isolation block)
Blue Skinned Short Season Bicolor F2 Seed I saved might segregate to potato leaved, want to cross with Big Hill to get exsertion (crossing block)
Exserted Tiger Tomato F2- have submitted paper work to OSSI pledge this as a breeding pop, planning to grow out F3 in 2020 (100 plants isolation block)
Exserted Orange Hill F2- have submitted paper work to OSSI pledge this as a breeding pop, planning to grow out F3 in 2020 (100 plants isolation block)
Lizzano F2/F3 (for PH2 PH3 Blight Resistance and is short season small plant red cherry)(Crossing block)
Coyote (yellow, tastes good, short season)(1 plant)
Galapagos Yellow short season thing tastes good- Andrew sent, not pure Galapagos (short season and flavor)(1 plant)
An exserted pimpinillifolium type Andrew sent me last year (1 plant)
Golden Tressette an exserted yellow cherry Alan Kapuler bred (1 plant)
A blue skinned segregate of Golden Tressette I found in the clump I grew (1 plant)
Forest Fire (very short season red and productive) (0 plants)
42 Days (42 DTM)(0 plants)
Sweet Cherriette (cherry 35 DTM, indeterminate dwarf)(1 plant)
Solanum arcanum and any peruvianum? crosses that segregate from it in 2020- hoping it will bridge peruvianum complex to domestics (one flat of plants crossing block with exserted domestics)
Solanum peruvianum- extremely difficult to cross, but highly interesting wild species (1 plant)
Solanum penellii and crosses (drought resistance, interesting flavors, salt tolerance)(crossing block with the 1 peruvianum plant)
Amethyst Cream (Flavor, blue skin)(1 plant)
Dwarf Hirsutum Cross (Habrochaites content, potato leaves, looks healthy, dwarf)(1 plant)
Wild Child (habrochaites content, dwarf, cold tolerance, blight tolerance) this will be my first year trying it (1 plant)
Weight in Gold (habrochaites content, frost tolerance) this will be my first year trying it (1 plant)
Three way hybrid I had between penellii, habrochaites, and domestic, but planning to wait for another year (0 plants unless include with other penellii)
Solanum habrochaites accession resistant to arthropods (growing this first time this year)(1 plant)
Wild Species in general including galapagense and cheesemanii (maybe 1 plant/clump each)
I have thousands of seeds from interplanted Big Hill and Blue Ambrosia that are likely to yield Big Hill x Blue Ambrosia hybrids if grown out from 2018 (0 plants)
I may not bother to grow even a single plant of some of the above in 2020- I added my estimated number of plants in brackets, its too much to work with in a single year. If I do grow them all, it will be one plant, or one clump of each. So the Big Hill x Wild4 will get the big grow out this year. I might have a few little crossing blocks on the edge of the field with a pollen donor and one Big Hill in the center of each block. If I get it done, that will be where the arthropod resistant hab is grown as hab x exserted domestic and hab x Big HillxW4 and the lizzano x big hill block and a F3 Blue skinned bicolor x Big Hill block, and the Penellii x Peruvianum block, and a Arcanum x exserted domestic block. Then I will do five isolation patches for some I'm growing for seeds at least 150 feet apart from each other and the big field.
All of the above is subject to prioritization as I'm sure reality will catch up to me. Writing it all out makes it seem like too much.