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Excited about the tomatoes! Wildling, Mission Mountain grex, The One MMS & MMM Crossing Block from William, Goingtoseed grex...

One Mission Mountain grex seems dwarf, and has a fruit with antho shoulders. Another plant doesn't have fruit yet but the leaves have alot of what looks like antho coloring? Stress or does antho show up that way too?

None of the The One-x seem dwarf.

I didn't tie up plants that didn't need it yet. I'll note plants that are better at supporting themselves.

Goingtoseed grex tomatoes are seed that I saved last year. Pretty sure they were all orange fruits. Excited to see how they do with a year of adaptation. And attempt to cross them.

Very exciting!

Watched your videos earlier. My mind has been turning over the bit about (from memory) your experience has been that if you grow a sweet potato plant from seed it's likely to produce some amount of seed. If you keep a sweet potato of the plant to grow clones next year, the clones are less likely to produce seed, and maybe even to flower. If you save a clone of that plant to grow out the following year, etc into future years, then the ability for it to produce seed, or even be able to make flowers gets much less likely each time.

That is quite interesting! Is it possible that the sweet potato clones are losing the ability because those genes are inserted a different way in the tuber/root than into the seed? Or could it be like a "use it or lose it" trait, where the moment it doesn't get used the genes go dormant...? Very curious!

Do habrochaites (Neandermato) soften like a regular tomato when ripe? They're quite small but I will start checking the bigger ones.

Fruits are still hard and green. I'm going to save seed and mark it so I know it has the selfing ability.

I was curious if it being capable of selfing means it could be pollinated by domestic tomatoes? Or different genes for that?
If it can be then that would be a way to get the habro mother side genes into a population.

As I was taking pics this big bee was busy on all the flowers. I saw it on the Neandermato, Cache valley currant, and improved Galapagos.

Neandermato leaves and flowers

Improved Galapagos is rather low sprawling plant too. Next to them is Cache valley currant which is sprawling but also holds more upright branches.

The plant from above. It's kind of sprawling out. Doesn't stand upright much.

Close ups of the plant

Solo Neandermato plant, tiny fruits growing. Can get more pics tomorrow.

What are the odds of a solo Neandermato plant having fruit? Selfed or pollinated by other not-habrochaites plants? I have Improved Galapagos and Cache valley currant right near it. The rest is domestic or mostly domestic.
I had started several Neandermato. 2 got put in the garden. One didn't make it. I triple checked. There is only one plant.

Interesting...

://phys.org/news/2025-06-tomatoes-galpagos-quietly-de-evolving.amp

"What makes these Galápagos tomatoes interesting isn't just that they make alkaloids, but that they're making the wrong ones, or at least, ones that haven't been seen in tomatoes since their early evolutionary days."

"The researchers analyzed more than 30 tomato samples collected from distinct geographic locations across the islands. They found that plants on eastern islands produced the same alkaloids found in modern cultivated tomatoes. But on western islands, the tomatoes were churning out a different version with the molecular fingerprint of eggplant relatives from millions of years ago."

Other than Cultivariable I don't know that there is much of a source for TPS.

Why decide on one when you can do it all?! 

That's really interesting that happens.