Post by tomato on Dec 30, 2014 11:48:04 GMT -5
Breeding projects for 2015:
In 2013, I crossed Piennolo del Vesuvio X LA0417 (S. Pimpinellifolium) with the intent of recovering disease tolerance genes. LA0417 was a single plant out of a clump of 8 that survived and thrived in spite of heavy disease pressure from septoria. I grew the F1 seedlings in my garden this past year and have several thousand F2 seed to work with this year. This year will be heavy selection for disease tolerance and fruit shape and quality traits.
I have a line from Keith's cross of Little Lucky X Sungold that is currently at F5. This was the outstanding best flavored tomato in my garden last year. It is a single plant selection that has several flaws including thin skin and somewhat lumpy shape. I will grow out several dozen seedlings with the intent of selecting for better fruit form and reduced cracking while retaining the outstanding flavor.
My last line is from a cross of Sungold X P20 dark black. This line was a single plant in my garden 2 years ago that produced exceptionally sweet fruit. I have it tentatively labeled Blueberry Sugar. Selection will be directed toward improved fruit flavor which is an issue for most of the atv + aft lines.
I interplanted Fortex and Oaxacan 5-1 pole beans in a separate area this year and let the bees make hay. Fortex is a very good quality fresh snap bean. Oaxacan 5-1 is the most disease and heat tolerant line I've ever seen, but it is in a small black bean with very little else to recommend it. I hope to move the disease and heat tolerance into the Fortex background. Fortex is white flowered. Oaxacan 5-1 is pink flowered. I saved seed only from Fortex so should be able to easily pick out the plants with pink flowers. There will be plenty of non-crossed plants so I will have plenty of beans to eat. This is a long term project, small tropical black beans tend to be dominant in most traits over snap beans.
I'm debating re-growing Mrs. Amerson squash after finding a single plant this year that produced nearly 4 times as much carotene as the rest of the seedlings. The higher carotene squash are sweeter and easier to make into pumpkin pies. It would be a very interesting project to select out a high carotene Moschata.
I have several lines of high protein, high oil corn, and disease tolerant corn from ARS-GRIN that I will grow out this year. My plans include improving production traits by crossing with Cherokee Squaw while combining high protein and high oil traits with the shoepeg trait which I am bringing in from Country Gentleman sweet corn. I crossed Cherokee Squaw X high methionine and high lysine lines this year. I also got a few dozen seed from crossing Country Gentleman X Cherokee Squaw. It will take at least 10 years to turn this into a useful line of corn. It is a lot of work for some chicken feed!
In 2013, I crossed Piennolo del Vesuvio X LA0417 (S. Pimpinellifolium) with the intent of recovering disease tolerance genes. LA0417 was a single plant out of a clump of 8 that survived and thrived in spite of heavy disease pressure from septoria. I grew the F1 seedlings in my garden this past year and have several thousand F2 seed to work with this year. This year will be heavy selection for disease tolerance and fruit shape and quality traits.
I have a line from Keith's cross of Little Lucky X Sungold that is currently at F5. This was the outstanding best flavored tomato in my garden last year. It is a single plant selection that has several flaws including thin skin and somewhat lumpy shape. I will grow out several dozen seedlings with the intent of selecting for better fruit form and reduced cracking while retaining the outstanding flavor.
My last line is from a cross of Sungold X P20 dark black. This line was a single plant in my garden 2 years ago that produced exceptionally sweet fruit. I have it tentatively labeled Blueberry Sugar. Selection will be directed toward improved fruit flavor which is an issue for most of the atv + aft lines.
I interplanted Fortex and Oaxacan 5-1 pole beans in a separate area this year and let the bees make hay. Fortex is a very good quality fresh snap bean. Oaxacan 5-1 is the most disease and heat tolerant line I've ever seen, but it is in a small black bean with very little else to recommend it. I hope to move the disease and heat tolerance into the Fortex background. Fortex is white flowered. Oaxacan 5-1 is pink flowered. I saved seed only from Fortex so should be able to easily pick out the plants with pink flowers. There will be plenty of non-crossed plants so I will have plenty of beans to eat. This is a long term project, small tropical black beans tend to be dominant in most traits over snap beans.
I'm debating re-growing Mrs. Amerson squash after finding a single plant this year that produced nearly 4 times as much carotene as the rest of the seedlings. The higher carotene squash are sweeter and easier to make into pumpkin pies. It would be a very interesting project to select out a high carotene Moschata.
I have several lines of high protein, high oil corn, and disease tolerant corn from ARS-GRIN that I will grow out this year. My plans include improving production traits by crossing with Cherokee Squaw while combining high protein and high oil traits with the shoepeg trait which I am bringing in from Country Gentleman sweet corn. I crossed Cherokee Squaw X high methionine and high lysine lines this year. I also got a few dozen seed from crossing Country Gentleman X Cherokee Squaw. It will take at least 10 years to turn this into a useful line of corn. It is a lot of work for some chicken feed!