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Hi JaybI splashed out on the Crimson Crushes too as soon as I saw them.I was thinking of trying to cross them with my best and tastiest outdoor croppers if I'm around at the right time (Stupice and Aurora). I think it's worth a try and easy to see if it works.But, I was reading the Savari Research Trust's website a while back and (from memory) they say in the mid-seventies a variety of blight which mutates was imported into Europe in potato tubers which is why it has become such a killer for outdoor tomatoes so for how long this variety will be blight-free it seems to me is debatable.Anyway, nothing to lose! Yes, let's compare notes and breed away....Earlypea
QuoteI grow Green Tiger (from M&S - aka. "Highlander" from seedsmen) for its unusual meaty flavour - also the round shape seems less blight prone than beefsteak types.I didn't realize green tiger was same as highlander.. ...but yes, it has unusual flavour and I like too..though sometimes the skin is quite tough one on them.
I grow Green Tiger (from M&S - aka. "Highlander" from seedsmen) for its unusual meaty flavour - also the round shape seems less blight prone than beefsteak types.
You guys worry me - you are going to have to actively encourage Blight onto your plot to see if your crosses are working !!
So in this case best not to rush to save seeds early in the season before LB strikes. Growing these really would put no more risk on my crops or anyone else.
I do grow quite a few tomatoes in a greenhouse and poly-tunnel too. It would be the norm for outside crops to be affected, where with luck and care, greenhouse and poly-tunnel crops are unaffected
Do you get away without blight in greenhouses at all? I know greenhouse crops are susceptible, but thought they were somewhat less likely to be infected - no rained-on foliage, and with door closed / not facing prevailing wind then some chance that the spores don't naturally enter.
Are they Ferline F1?
there are blight spores ( blown in by the wind and absolutely everywhere) - nobody can help those. Then there are the virulent, activated blight spores - and it is the latter that do the harm. Activation happens after a certain amount of humidity.
Crimson Crush does not have f1 in its name but according to the symbol at top right Suttons are claiming it is an F1 in some places.