Tomato Journal

[Randy Simmons]

My plants of The One! are still in my grow tent with 5 tomatoes now.  My Mission Mountain Rising plant got over fertilized, I think.  So I tried a few more seeds and now have 3 dwarves that will be in my grow tent soon. 

It is still a few weeks earlier than I normally start my tomatoes but I am thinking hard about what I will start since I have limited space. 

I have some goals for my tomatoes this year but the ones I think I am most excited about are trying to produce/increase seed for The One! and MMR, and from my one plant of MMM from last year and crossing Purple Zebra with Bison.  Last year my Exserted Orange plant produced some red tomatoes and a few orange ones.  I saved seed from the orange ones so I can hopefully produce more like last year's.

[William Schlegel]

That sounds fun!

I ordered a packet of Sunviva from https://heritageseedmarket.com/index.php/product/sunviva/

yesterday.

It intrigues me.

[Tim DH]

I grew a couple of Sunviva last year. Not very productive, but the best flavoured of the OP Blight Resistant cultivars I trialled.

I'm going to include it in my F1 Cherry creation experiment this year, which means it will get Greenhouse grown (as a pollen donor) Last year's plants were both outdoors.

Tim DH

[Randy Simmons]

Looks like it came from open source plant breeders in Germany.  The blight resistance will be useful since we are getting more precipitation this year and I like orange/yellow cherry tomatoes.

[Adrian]

Someone know is this tomato is viable?
This tomato is a F3 tiny tim x green giant of color yellow.
First time that i see a tomato with 4 cotyledons!

[Garrett Schantz]

Tomatoes with 3 - 4 cotyledons almost always stay stunted or die on me.

I still try keeping them alive.

[William Schlegel]

I have gotten some odd germinates to survive but more cotyleden emergence problems. Still give it time and it may work out!

[Roland]

I grew a couple of Sunviva last year. Not very productive, but the best flavoured of the OP Blight Resistant cultivars I trialled.

I'm going to include it in my F1 Cherry creation experiment this year, which means it will get Greenhouse grown (as a pollen donor) Last year's plants were both outdoors.

Tim DH

Yes the taste from Sunviva is very good. The blight resistance homozygous ph3 is working well in Netherlands. The disadvantage is that the fruits crack quickly. It have a strong vigor and there grow branches from the leaves. I like Sunviva.

[William Schlegel]

Surviva could be good for crossing with other fruity tomatoes to stay within a flavor theme.

Though it could also be good for crossing with other resistant tomatoes to get a wider variety of resistant tomatoes.

I wonder if my packet will be delivered this week.

[Steph S]

I haven't seen 4 cotyledons before, but I had a tricot and a monocot last season, and both grew normally. 
Tricots are fairly common in tomato, at least common enough that many growers had experienced that when discussed on another forum.   One grower said he found that seeds from tricot plants had a higher tendency to produce the tricot seedlings.

[Adrian]

The plant with 4 cotyledons has finaly grow on two heads and has give fruits.

[Kadence Luneman]

EFN made a Facebook post and their update is det for Jan 9.
Do I need anything? No. Will I probably get a few things? Yes absolutely! Lol

[William Schlegel]

EFN made a Facebook post and their update is det for Jan 9.
Do I need anything? No. Will I probably get a few things? Yes absolutely! Lol

I have a gift certificate that needs spent!

[Kadence Luneman]

I limited myself to five items from the EFN update. Two are tomatoes.
Mission Mountain grex. I have some seed from William but this was too tempting of variety.
Improved wild Galapagos. I'm going to review the other threads about what yall have done with it already. I don't recall that it's been used in alot of breeding. I'm curious how it'll do here.

Not tomatoes... I got Promiscuous Peas, which I'll grow with/next to the Lofthouse cowpeas. Dorado sorghum which looks to be a good alternative grain option as long as I can keep the deer out of it. And grandmother yellowwood, because I like the idea of a more rare native tree.

[William Schlegel]

I decided to focus on tomatoes with my EFN purchase. I got Cosmic Purple Rain, Hummingbird F2, Puerto Cortes, and Improved Galapagos.