Romabear Paste Tomato - Improved Genetic Production - Seeded & Seedless

[@petersoos498]

Another step in the journey. Interesting about how the temperature/weather effects seed setting. Take care.

[@C3Voyage]

Tomato is picky unless you're growing in the Spring/Fall down here.

[@bobhaverkos8687]

If you want to add size to your paste tomatoes, try breeding with supersauce or cipollas pride, both huge flavorful paste tomatoes.

[@C3Voyage]

Thanks for the input! Supersauce is a hybrid and I've learned that fleshing out the genetics crossing to a hybrid is more difficult. But, Cipolla's Pride is OP so doable. I'll keep that one in mind. I have two potentials right now and the plants are two feet tall so it's the first go. One is Fertunia and it's well over a pound. I've got a review of the tomato if you're interested in it. Beautiful tomato, tastes great.

[@bobhaverkos8687]

@@C3Voyage Watched the review--quite an impressive tomato. My question is this: when you breed it with Brandybear what percentage of the F1's do you expect to have pat-b?

[@C3Voyage]

@@bobhaverkos8687 My geneticist tells me the gene is semi-dominant and I've noticed that cutting fruit. I've seen about 5-10% seedless fruits at F1 in many lines, but not all. At F2, the rearranging of genes allows for much more expression as it's the most diverse. That's when it really shows. If the trait were recessive, there would be no seedless fruit in F1. This is as I understand it. Edit: This is when crossing a pat-b parent with a non-pat-b parent.

[@C3Voyage]

@@bobhaverkos8687 Since you've brought that F1 pat-b issue to my thoughts, I thought I'd let you know that I'm crossing Brandybear (pat-b) to my original Cherry Brent (also pat-b). I've not done this before for some odd reason. What this will tell me is if two pat-b parents will create a pat-b hybrid. In my conversations with major ag, one of their reasons for not giving me a shot was not being able to create hybrids with the gene. That's how they make their $$--hybrids. I always assumed it would, but I'm going to make sure.

[@bobhaverkos8687]

@@C3Voyage I admire your pesistence and know you must be frustrated with all the people you have contacted and so far has fallen on deaf ears. To have something that is truly game changing and basically getting the cold shoulder has got to be nerve racking. Anyway I'm going to follow this story to it's conclusion and hopefully somebody at big ag. wakes up and you get rewarded handsomely for all your efforts. As a side note as to why you've been getting stonewalled is the fact that many of these breeders probably are intimidated by the fact that a backyard breeder has accomplished something that they haven't despite the fact that they have big money supporting them. Keep up the good work and some day it will pay off.