Tuesday, August 15, 2017

World's smallest tomato???

World record smallest tomato??? My entry won "littlest tomato" in the Nashville Tomato Art Festival, 8/12/17.  7.95 mm.   There's not much out there in the interwebs about any such world record...Let the challengers rise.  Till then I claim the crown.   Actually they don't do any measuring at this festival, it's pretty informal.  The calipers are mine.   I carefully "dissected" it and found a total of two seeds inside. !
 



Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Those F3s tho

And the F3 collection is done, I think.  I am still summarizing but I saved some seeds from 8A, 24A, 46A, 55A, 10B, 20C, 28D.  I didn't save from 58, which was clearly a small red globe with slight purple - so it must be a sport with IR in it, probably an F2 from the prior year's backyard F1.  But it's just an IR-sized red globe with a wisp of purple, so, meh.  

8A yielded large 200g gf fruit but with only a wisp of purple in some of them.  Nice looking fruit though.

24a and 46a were not huge, but have strong purple + gf. So very nice looking color on these, and slightly larger than IR - about 80-100 g.

55A was the only one to really combine size, gf and strong purple skin. Woo hoo!

10B yielded large red fruit with purple, but no gf. It's still possible what I saved has gf/+, but not sure.

Finally 28D was a decent red cherry with a blush of purple, so that was kind of cool and worth saving.

I also saved IR and KB seeds.