Tomato

Promiscuous Returned: All of these tomatoes should be descendants of Joseph Lofthouse’s promiscuous tomato project, which seeks to return wild genetics to inbred domestic tomatoes. Those who returned seed made thoughtful selections and saved seed from the best plants they found amongst their grow outs. There is not much of this seed- but what there is, may be highly useful. We greatly appreciate seed returns of these genetics.

Obligate Outcrossing: This mix contains the offspring of Joseph's careful selections for self-incompatibility. These tomatoes may thus have the same breeding system as tomatillos which allows greater resilience by ensuring some heterozygosity. Heterozygosity is when living creatures have more than one allele of the same gene- which is only possible in outbreeding crops and is naturally lost in most self-compatible tomatoes. F1 hybrid tomatoes are deliberately created each year by manual pollination of two self-compatible tomato varieties. These hybrids have several benefits including greater vigor and improved earliness. With these self-incompatible tomatoes that hybridization should be automatic, and we hope that the result will be tomatoes with the benefits of hybrids but from which new hybrid seed can be saved each year with just the aid of bumblebees. With these you must grow more than one plant -- preferably many plants and have adequate bumblebee pollination in your garden. These tomatoes are quite rare, and we greatly appreciate grow reports and seed returns of these genetics. 

Packets contain about 50 seeds