Well, darn it. I've been looking at tomatoes more and more, and it's looking like it's not enough to breed hops, watermelons, japanese quinces, apples, and honey bees, but I'm going to have to give a go to tomatoes as well. Just can't help myself.
But on to the subject matter, I'm looking for suggestions on what to acquire to help me with my crosses.
My target would be a cherry tomato, yellow-fleshed, indeterminate, dwarf, with Ph-2+Ph-3 late blight resistance (and ideally as many disease resistances as possible). And if such a thing exists, cold tolerance, but my searches haven't yielded me anything conclusive on that yet.
I've got a few late-blight resistant varieties: Mountain Magic, Jasper, Defiant, Plum Regal. Some open-pollinated (like 'Mémé de Beauce', 'Canabec Super', and probably some others), some rootstocks ('Estamino').
I don't have dwarves nor yellow-fleshed tomatoes as far as I'm aware. I'm thinking of maybe getting Yellow Canary?
Is there a good page somewhere to read on breeding tomatoes, and how the major traits like fruit size, growth habit, fruit flesh color and such interact? Which are recessive and to what, which are additive, etc.
I'm thinking of doing a big melting pot of Mountain Magic, Jasper, Mémé de Beauce, Estamino, and Yellow Canary, though crossing just Jasper to Yellow Canary could probably pretty much get me what I want, though Mountain Magic seems to have a much more robust disease resistance package than Jasper does. Though I also read that all of these were heterozygous on the resistance alleles, though, so many I should pick up another variety like Iron Lady instead? Though that one's a big red tomato.