Post by Yoris on Jul 8, 2019 22:04:06 GMT -7
A couple years ago, I grew the Menehune tomato. I was interested since it was supposed to be a wild tomato: Lycopersicon succentrianum.
Anyway, it flowered and looked prolific, but it took a while before I got fruit. The fruits developed weird blemishes and had almost no hang-time. The leaves looked like regular leaf, but unique-looking. They had a lot of flowers. I seem to remember that it wasn't very heat-tolerant.
I didn't plant it the next year, but it volunteered with similar results as the year before.
This year, I suspect that my Frosty F. House tomatoes and one of my Brandy Boy crosses were cross-pollinated by it (last year), due to the abundance of flowers on each plant, the fruit shape, and some oddities on the Brandy Boy cross fruit. If the Brandy Boy cross was crossed by it, then the leaf type is recessive to potato leaf (seeing as the particular Brandy Boy cross I mean is potato leaf). Also, Frosty F. House's regular leaf foliage does not look like Menehune's.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to these crosses (if that's what they are). If any two tomatoes would be good candidates to cross with Menehune, those two might be.
Frosty F. House's fruit size does not seem particularly smaller, but the Brandy Boy cross's does so far (we'll see if they grow much larger).
The Brandy Boy cross does have occasional dandelion-like flowers, still, but many more flowers per truss.
I've wondered if a recessive regular leaf gene was out there. Time will hopefully tell.
Anyway, it flowered and looked prolific, but it took a while before I got fruit. The fruits developed weird blemishes and had almost no hang-time. The leaves looked like regular leaf, but unique-looking. They had a lot of flowers. I seem to remember that it wasn't very heat-tolerant.
I didn't plant it the next year, but it volunteered with similar results as the year before.
This year, I suspect that my Frosty F. House tomatoes and one of my Brandy Boy crosses were cross-pollinated by it (last year), due to the abundance of flowers on each plant, the fruit shape, and some oddities on the Brandy Boy cross fruit. If the Brandy Boy cross was crossed by it, then the leaf type is recessive to potato leaf (seeing as the particular Brandy Boy cross I mean is potato leaf). Also, Frosty F. House's regular leaf foliage does not look like Menehune's.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to these crosses (if that's what they are). If any two tomatoes would be good candidates to cross with Menehune, those two might be.
Frosty F. House's fruit size does not seem particularly smaller, but the Brandy Boy cross's does so far (we'll see if they grow much larger).
The Brandy Boy cross does have occasional dandelion-like flowers, still, but many more flowers per truss.
I've wondered if a recessive regular leaf gene was out there. Time will hopefully tell.