tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61367462024-03-19T05:20:08.733-07:00Tater-MaterBlog devoted to potato and tomato breeding, but may include forays into politics, culture, and the like.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-25343239045917311992012-12-24T01:22:00.001-08:002012-12-24T01:22:16.208-08:00[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9mmn5.jpg[/IMG]
A picture of one my creations.....BLUE TEARS...quite an attractive plant showing lots of blue in the leaves, stems and flowers. I should have seed available again soon.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-46637687920985965322012-10-14T23:37:00.001-07:002012-10-14T23:37:22.501-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-35175140759888124702012-09-08T01:27:00.001-07:002012-09-08T01:27:34.240-07:00Poster inviting folks to attend my presentation in Portland Sept 11, 2012 I really love this poster! Reminds me of the old Farmer's Almanacs and ads of the past century or two.
There is no way I'll know exactly what I will talk about but it will be fun. Tom WagnerTom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-73701962751602425622012-09-06T23:49:00.001-07:002012-09-06T23:49:48.829-07:00BETIMES MACBETH Tomato variety Betimes Macbeth is again a dependable variety that makes here in the PNW.
Heavy set of tomatoes on a very small vine. Determinate
Shiny, firm fruit that tolerates the cold nights we get in tomato season...down in the upper 40's.
The breeding work goes back to Kansas and later in California. Advanced selection was done here.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-78294094036694699992012-03-20T13:48:00.001-07:002012-03-20T13:48:28.936-07:00SUESS BECKER bean This update on the Suess Becker bean is partly for my extended family to view. I have kept this bean alive by growing it every few years. Occasionally, I have sent samples to family and to interested growers.
Since it hails from 1888 in Germany and before that by many years. The text tells a story that I wanted public for a variety of reasons. If anyone wants a Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-56816436574483057452012-03-03T23:07:00.002-08:002012-03-03T23:13:08.737-08:00The Grow Northwest magazine for March 2, 2012 has an article about my work with potatoes and tomatoes. Here is a link http://www.grownorthwest.com/2012/03/something-of-a-legend-an-interview-with-tom-wagner/I need to remind folks that I am selling true potato seed ......TPS... and tomato seed among other things on the website newworldcrops.comTom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-91314019652638505082011-10-17T22:48:00.000-07:002011-10-17T22:48:15.367-07:00This is a snapshot of my HOWIE MANDEL potato variety. It is a cross between Mandel and John Tom Kaighin, both of which have great flavor and the hybrid is no exception either.I sent true potato seed ...TPS ....out to a number of locations around the world and I am gearing up to list it with my online website for selling seed...newworldcrops.comSince I have an idea from customers what appears Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-69724324587126502232011-10-17T20:46:00.000-07:002011-10-17T20:46:24.866-07:00 This is a new variety from my breeding work. I am calling it Blue Green.It ripens up with a green flesh with the blue mediated anthocyanin colors that are only skin deep.Hope to have enough seed of it to introduce this coming catalog season.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-23095937035319868552011-10-17T19:57:00.000-07:002011-10-17T19:57:43.578-07:00 This is but one of my many blue tomato creations. These are fully ripe Zebra type tomatoes that also have the blue pigments showing up in the areas hit by light and the stripes are picking up the pigment anthocyanin.This and many other tomato varieties will be posted on the website newworldcrops.com for sales.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-17771458201724421742010-09-23T13:08:00.000-07:002010-09-23T13:22:25.477-07:00The Austrian Seed Savers...Arche Noah sent me this picture of some of the pretty tomatoes out of the seed I dropped off to them this Spring. Each of the tomatoes are sibs of each other. These are the selected ones out of 180 plants that were in their demonstration garden. It was called..SEARCHING FOR THE BLUE ZEBRA....and though they did not find the candidate sought..nothing is wrong with Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-15254065374560760652010-09-09T20:13:00.000-07:002010-09-09T20:18:09.755-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-9576960160104559992010-08-10T22:16:00.001-07:002010-08-10T22:16:35.738-07:00Green Zebra Hybrid <!-- / icon and title --> Question: Are there any F-1 Green Zebra Hybrid tomatoes?Answer: YesQuestion: Are they available to the average gardener?Answer: No. Should they be?Question: How many seeds do you have of a hybrid Green Zebra?Answer: About 50 seed. But I could make more if the market wanted them.Question: Would you sell any of those seeds?AnswerTom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-51973113077653454692010-06-04T13:08:00.000-07:002010-06-04T13:22:44.759-07:00To show you how busy I have been or otherwise, I still have stacks of potato berries from last yearwaiting to be processed for seed.Notice how some berries are purple? This is kindalike my purple/blue tomato breeding work.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-3733220354111181012010-06-03T14:17:00.000-07:002010-06-03T14:18:28.754-07:00New updates are forthcoming soon.Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-19741144910229544182010-01-23T21:17:00.000-08:002010-01-23T21:52:10.460-08:00This winter and until about April I am offering my Potato Sampler again. It is an 8 lb. box sent postpaid and delivered in two days or so. I usually put about 5 to 20 varieties together. The varieties could be little known varieties from around the world or exclusive varieties out of my potato breeding program. I ask $40 to cover shipping costs and the rest to support my research.I usually Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-43369900937553009272009-09-24T16:37:00.000-07:002009-09-24T16:42:24.940-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-55702968415774064562009-09-03T11:10:00.000-07:002009-09-03T11:14:09.643-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-62041419424911588192009-08-29T04:48:00.000-07:002009-08-29T04:49:43.342-07:00I know, it is in French, but then many of the attendees will be French speaking.Programme 2009 des conférences et des séminaires de Tom WagnerTom Wagner et son traducteur Québécois Michel Lachaume seront accompagnés par Alan Bishop , le fondateur du réseau Homegrown Goodness, en Amérique du Nord. - Le 12 septembre, à midi, Tom Wagner animera une conférence au Château de Labourdaisière, à Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-2487729253982546092009-08-18T15:55:00.000-07:002009-08-18T15:56:13.289-07:00I have found this a hard subject to make simple. But here goes...Tomato late blight resistance genes are non-allelicQuote:Non-allelic genes are genes located at different loci on the samechromosome or on different chromosomes altogether.The gene, Ph-3, Chromosome 9Ph-1 (chromosome 7Ph-2 (chromosome 10).Reports are thatQuote:WV106carried a single dominant allele conditioning a high levelof Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-14316999455106952362009-08-17T09:27:00.000-07:002009-08-17T09:33:52.660-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-2698100785228838412009-08-14T23:07:00.001-07:002009-08-14T23:07:40.701-07:00CAMPARI -Campari(ng) DescendanciesThere has been a couple of threads about Campari, namely;http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=12120http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...hlight=campari...and I thought the topic I am bringing forth deserves a new forefrontation.Question. Has anyone segregated the recombinations for filial generations of Campari.Answer. Yes.I have several lines of Campari Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-82849748320527325642009-08-13T12:14:00.000-07:002009-08-13T12:16:48.732-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-40063044297183904382009-07-23T21:10:00.000-07:002009-07-23T21:21:03.288-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-18884744956382473012009-07-23T20:44:00.000-07:002009-07-23T20:48:11.848-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136746.post-91405574331149741802009-07-20T02:14:00.000-07:002009-07-20T02:18:35.229-07:00Tom Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266992116564731834noreply@blogger.com