Hi from the UK. I am known as Maf and some of you will likely know me as I have posted on various tomato forums over the years, on and off. There are quite a few names here I recognise from some of the other forums from years back, and I guess there are others going by different handles than I would know them by. Probably won't be posting too much but just thought I would put up an introduction. I have browsed this forum occasionally over the last couple of years or so and eventually decided to join up.

I grow tomatoes (and a few peppers) mainly in greenhouses given UK weather, but often outside also, and have dabbled a little in breeding tomatoes over the years. Always interested in discussions of tomato genetics, breeding projects and methods etc (natural breeding, not GMO).

Welcome @maf .
Glad to see you here.

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under @maf

welcome to the forum

one of my great, great, great grandpas, and his brother came across the pond back in 1861, and started a new
life on a farm here in what is now the detroit area. came from a farm, went to a farm.


keith

Hello and welcome to the Junction @maf. Your name is quite familiar to me but I don't remember where from.

Welcome, @maf!

Welcome from the White Mountains!

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome from America's Dairyland! Are them there Ananas Noire in yer avatar?

The MIA Sean (AKA@Amateurinawe) is in yer bailiwick, tell him his pal misses him dropping by time-n-again.

The Gotch

Welcome to the forum! Always good to have another plant breeder with us.

Welcome to the Junction from Georgia in the great American South! Looking forward to hearing about your growing methods etc.

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:53 am Welcome from America's Dairyland! Are them there Ananas Noire in yer avatar?

Thanks! The avatar tomatoes are a selection from a growout I did of an early generation Tom Wagner's 'Healthy Colors'. Old photo that one, but I grew it again last year. Good flavour, colour and shape but didn't have the hoped for late blight resistance.

maf wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:53 amThanks! The avatar tomatoes are a selection from a growout I did of an early generation Tom Wagner's 'Healthy Colors'. Old photo that one, but I grew it again last year. Good flavour, colour and shape but didn't have the hoped for late blight resistance.

Couldn't find any information on that variety, but the Ananas Noire is the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch's FAVE!

Below was the...um...volunteer for a BLT last August: The Gotch

Welcome aboard from the Great Lakes region.

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:06 am

maf wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:53 amThanks! The avatar tomatoes are a selection from a growout I did of an early generation Tom Wagner's 'Healthy Colors'. Old photo that one, but I grew it again last year. Good flavour, colour and shape but didn't have the hoped for late blight resistance.

Couldn't find any information on that variety, but the Ananas Noire is the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch's FAVE!

Below was the...um...volunteer for a BLT last August:
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The Gotch

I also got some yellow/orange/red normal bicolors without the green from that Tom Wagner cross. I wouldn't be surprised if Ananas Noire was one of the parents but he never (to my knowledge) disclosed what they were.

Bigger pic:

Welcome to the Junction.

maf wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:56 pmBigger pic:

Whoa Nellie...round....firm....not too pulpy....THAT is one fine lookin' Tomato!

The Gotch