Hey I've always wanted to make a tomato that just cranks out fruit so can yall tell me
Where to get the seeds
If it's possible
What tomato i should use
Who should be the seed holder
I would appreciate it
Saved some seeds from UF Gulf Ruby, Rose, Beauty and Blaze. I didn’t label or record which or how many of select varieties there were.
Most came out of the fridge ok, but lost a few to mold or dehydration (waited too long to soak and store).
16 seeds in, I will see how many push through and survive the lovely growing conditions Orlando Florida in the coming months.
I've been cross breeding cherry tomatoes between my friends house and mine for about 7 years. We have cross bred my mountain magic cherry tomatoes with his millions. We call them mountain dew cherry tomatoes being they are homebred! Which created this monstrosity. Sorry for the Pic its night. It is 4 ft tall 6 ft around. Where the arms hit the wood chips they create new root bases and basically a new stalk. We have been training these to creep but this one got larger than any we have had. I would estimate there arw 300 ripening on the whole Bush and it wants about 3 gallons per square meter per week. Otherwise the tomatoes start slowing in growth. It is also a fertilize hog. It will start yellowing after 2 weeks. The zucchini behind is living its best life and is producing as much zucchini as 3 plants.
Hi all,
I don't know if this is considered self promotion, if so, I will remove this post.
I'm a hobbyist plant breeder and software developer and I've built a web app to manage my plant breeding projects.
I created it earlier this year after getting tired of keeping track of everything through phone notes and spreadsheets and after having polished it up a bit, I've release it for free (it's a cloud-based app managed by me).
I mainly breed flowers like Hemerocallis, Dahlia, Tulipa, and Lilium, so I'm not sure how well it fits other types of plants. The software is tailored to the specific breeding workflow I've developed over the last couple of years, and it comes with a pre-populated list of cultivars for those species.
The software isn't meant to be a full professional breeding or genetics suite, but rather a practical tool to keep track of the process. It doesn't manage large fields, crops or land sites, as it's built specifically for small-scale gardeners like me.
Here is how it works:
It's mostly mobile-friendly, so you can easily tag crosses right from your phone while working in the garden.
The software also features a pedigree section with a broad visual chart showing all generations of plants and cultivars.
Additionally, you can attach custom properties to your own cultivars and use them for filtering or viewing in the pedigree section.
If you'd like to check it out (requires a quick, free sign-up):
Hi everyone! I've always grown up fascinated with genetics and have always hoped that I can do something involving genetics when I grew up, but never really found a niche I was interested in until this last year. I discovered pepper breeding and interspecies pepper breeding. Now I've never even grown a pepper before let alone bred any, and when I had tried keeping plants alive before, they always died, though admittedly I never did enough research. This time I dived deep into researching pepper care, pepper flower anatomy, pepper pod anatomy, the genetics side of things, how some crosses work better one way rather than the other, etc. And then I decided to dip my toes in myself by starting a highly ambitious project that even seasoned gardeners could consider difficult. I've decided to attempt to breed and stabilize a 3 species, 4 variety hybrid of red habanero (pictured) mad hatter, red ghost, and a spicier jalapeno variety. The habaneros I planted from seed never germinated so I had to buy starters from a nursery, and the only habaneros I found were on discount with extremely yellow sad looking leaves. I let them keep what flowers they had, and even crossed one. I emasculated a couple, and pollinated with mad hatter pollen knowing the chances of success were low, but the mad hatter was on its last push of flowers and pollen, and the habaneros flowers wouldn't open until after all the mad hatter flowers were other self pollinated or fallen off, so I took a chance. And it worked! One of the flowers actually took and started to swell and it's even beginning to ripen! The ghost jalapeno cross is also growing, however I forgot to tag it so I don't remember which is which, but if people want me to I can post pictures of some of the ghost pods I have growing too :) hopefully I get a few viable hybrid seedlings this January. I'm going to grow them inside under a grow light early to give them the longest fruiting window I can in full summer sun, wish me luck! I'll continue to post as my project evolves
(Cross posted from r/hotpeppers)
It’ll be my first year this upcoming spring and I wanna make sure I do everything right.. it’s probably a shot in the dark but it took a while to find this subreddit. I figured maybe someone here may have an answer to my questions
I’m an international PhD student in plant breeding/genetics in the US deciding between two labs. My long-term goal is to work as a quantitative geneticist / computational plant breeder in industry (e.g., major seed/ag companies).
I want strong experience in quantitative genetics, genomic selection/prediction, mixed models, G×E, statistics, R/Python, and bioinformatics, while still understanding practical breeding.
Option A — Quantitative genetics-focused PI
Large R1 land-grant university with a very strong plant breeding/genetics ecosystem.
Pros:
PI trained specifically in plant breeding + quantitative genetics
Research includes small grains/wheat, genomics, genomic selection, and breeding-data analysis
Strong quantitative genetics/statistics/bioinformatics coursework and collaborators
Strong overall plant breeding and industry network
Already at this university, so no major relocation
Cons:
I am switching labs so, chances of more crossover with my current lab (the one I am switching from)
PI is relatively new and still building the breeding program
Exact PhD projects/publication pipeline are less clear
Some uncertainty about how much large-scale breeding data I would personally work with
Option B — Established wheat breeding program
Another R1 land-grant university with a long-established wheat breeding program.
Pros:
Established breeding populations, germplasm, and multi-location field trials
Large amount of real phenotypic/genotypic breeding data
Experience with G×E, genomic prediction, selection, experimental design, and cultivar development
PI is an experienced wheat breeder
More established infrastructure and clearer research/funding situation
I have already accepted this offer
Cons:
PI is primarily an applied breeder rather than a quantitative geneticist
University may have a smaller quantitative-genetics ecosystem than Option A
I may need to intentionally build advanced statistics/programming/bioinformatics through coursework and collaborations
Risk of my PhD becoming more traditional field breeding than quantitative genetics
The complication is that I had already accepted Option B when Option A became available. As an international student, I also have an upcoming program-transfer/immigration deadline, so I need to decide soon.
If your goal were to become an industry quantitative geneticist, which would you choose?
A: Quantitative-genetics PI + stronger quantitative ecosystem, but newer breeding program
B: Established wheat breeding program + extensive real-world breeding data, but I would need to intentionally build the quantitative/computational side
For people in industry: which background would make someone more competitive for quantitative geneticist positions 4–5 years from now?
I harvested a hybrid fruit from Physalis Peruviana that was pollinated with Tomatillo(Physalis Ixocarpa) pollen. It had lots of tiny, immature, underdeveloped seeds inside while the seeds from another selfed fruit were completely normal. This means the embryo probably aborted but fertilization was succesful.
On the second picture you can see the hybrid seeds next to the selfed seeds.
The Tomatillo x Groundcherry seeds also failed to germinate(normal Groundcherry seeds I planted in the same spot germinated just fine)
Hopefully some of my other combinations(that haven't ripened yet) will have viable seeds.