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Post by DayLilyDude on Mar 18, 2011 19:45:35 GMT -6
Tell me about this mater called steel blue?
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Mar 19, 2011 6:48:07 GMT -6
Tell me about this mater called steel blue? Bro, It is NOT...a blue tomato... It is a now stable cross (Mortgage lifter/brandywine) I started working with in 99.. I named it Steele Blue, because it took the Blue Ribbon at the Steele County Fair, for LARGEST TOMATO...three years in a row!! could have called it anything, but named it this when it took the BLUE the first year I entered it...just figured it apropos 1999..Cross pollinated first with a small paint brush...transferring pollen from the mortgage lifter to the brandywine... 2000 season...No success, still looked/tasted like a mortgage lifter the following season.. Tried reversing the procedure... 2001...still No joy Now I realize, and as most of Us know, tomatoes are self pollinating, having perfect flowers (hermaphrodite)
Heirloom tomatoes, are more prone to crossing than hybrids...due to the flowers "style" length
On heirlooms they are much longer. This is one thing that has been bred out of hybrids, along with taste....
But now TRY to purposely cross pollinate them  ...well tell the above facts to the mator plant will ya...  FINALLY...I "injected" a Mortgage lifter pollen/sterile water mixture with a syringe and needle into the UNOPENED blossom of a brandywine.... it could have been...Day/time/temperature...or just BLIND LUCK...but..the next season I planted the seeds from this cross.. a Super huge, high yielding , perfectly shaped cross... Came true in 2002 2003, I considered it stable, and it has produced true since! I figure I beat the flowers ability to pollinate itself with the pollen I injected?? |
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Post by spuds on Mar 19, 2011 8:08:44 GMT -6
 Sounds like a super Tom,WTG Phil
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Post by DayLilyDude on Mar 19, 2011 8:21:40 GMT -6
Ooooo... are there seeds available??
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Post by kansasterri on May 26, 2011 10:24:53 GMT -6
Yes: I LOVE Brandywine tomatos, but they do not yield enough fruit for me to give it garden space!!!!!!!!
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Post by w8in4dave on May 26, 2011 11:24:23 GMT -6
Ohhhhh sounds nice  |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on May 27, 2011 3:17:51 GMT -6
Sorry I'd missed this thread along the line...
Yes, There is seed available DlD,
KT, dang I figure the brandywine would do much better there in Kansas..
they produce like crazy here, too the point we normally only set out one plant, other varieties we set out 2=of...
cept for the Amish paste...we have 30 of them
but I have heard this before, just though it was a northern thing, timing or old seed
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