Hybrids for hobbyists

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Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:14 pm

What about F2, F3 etc. Do they typically produce spitters or they are just some other form of tomatoes but resembling the F1 but still is not a spitter?

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Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:15 am

Mark_Thompson wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:31 pm Shule,
What is a “sport” that’s a new one to me.
A sport is kind of like a mutant. If you grow a Sweet Cherriette tomato that produces as usual, and then suddenly it throws a medium-sized bicolor beefsteak with anthocyanin, it's probably a sport. If all the fruits are like that, it's probably the result of cross-pollination (unless the parent was a sport). Sports (maybe not 100% of them) can breed true, without any need for stabilizing them over generations.

As I understand it, GGWT never needed to be stabilized, and I was under the impression that there was only one fruit like it that year. I could be wrong on both points, but that was my impression, based on the things I had read.
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Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:18 am

Barmaley wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:14 pm What about F2, F3 etc. Do they typically produce spitters or they are just some other form of tomatoes but resembling the F1 but still is not a spitter?
Q: Do they typically produce spitters?
A: I don't think so.
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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