Tom Wagner Pedigree Information
This is the final video from Tom Wagner’s Sunday workshop in Oxford. In this video Tom presents some pedigree information for seeds he left with us that day.
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I haven’t carefully inventoried the seeds I have, but I think I have some of everything he talks about here. I’m pretty sure more is available on request. I probably have other seeds he didn’t talk about here, and I’ll have to ask Tom about these.
I also have a large number of tomato seeds, but Tom didn’t have information on these available on that day.
In the past I’ve offered a number of seeds to anyone reading this blog, but in this case it’s a little different.
These seeds are still on offer to anyone, but the intention is when you receive them you agree to participate in a breeding project that goes along with them. That means committing yourself to learning something about the genetics involved in the project, and reporting back to Tom on your progress.
When Tom left the seeds with me, I think he was thinking that members of the workshop or contacts within Europe would be the ones receiving the seeds, but as we know this blog has readers in most regions and many countries of the world. As far as I’m concerned, and I think Tom too, anyone who’s genuinely interested in participating in a breeding project is welcome to seeds. I’m personally willing to send them anywhere.
So, regardless of where you live; Europe, North America or elsewhere, if you’re interested in joining a tomato or potato breeding project, please get in touch! There’s really a lot of very exciting biodiversity to work with here.
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Thanks for posting these films for those of us who weren’t there on Sunday. I finally had the time to watch them and I would be interested in a few TPS if you’ve got enough to share – No. 11, 16, 21 and 25 sound most intriguing to me.
I’m glad I got there Saturday, thanks again for organizing everything.
Hi there,
Thank you for the great posting & videos. I’d love to participate in the potato part of the program. I live in USA zone 9b (hot humid most of the year, mild winters)…I’d appreciate anything you’d like me to ‘test drive’
You can reach me directly at the email I entered above.
Thanks!
pam
Hi Pam and Miss H,
Great! Probably not much will happen until the New Year. I’ll get in touch with Tom again around then, and plan distributing everything with him.
It’s great you guys are interested! I hope some more come forward.
Using this post as a place to discuss things seems like as good a place as any. Please check back from time to time. I’ll try to keep the comments here up to date if I have any news.
Thanks Patrick! Looking forward to participating!
Hi Pat, Great Videos!
I would love to participate in the tomatoe project. In the past I grew tomatoes only in containers, I now have a larger yard to experiment with garden grown. Blue tomatoes would be amazing! Green Zebra right now is one of my favourites. I live in Canada, Zone 8 coastal BC.
Thanks
Gail
I’m sorry I’m so slow getting back to all of you about this. If you live in the US it’s better if you get seeds from Tom directly, because then we don’t need to worry about them going through customs. I think he is best reached on his discussion forum, or send me an email and I’ll give you his email address.
http://tatermater.proboards.com/index.cgi
Otherwise, as of today, there are still some more TPS and tomatoes available. Unfortunately I only have numbered tomato seeds and don’t know what the lines are. Get in touch anyway if you’re interested.
[...] In connection with Tom Wagner’s visit last year, he gave me a collection of true potato seeds from his breeding projects. In the seed tray above you see the seeds germinating, with the numbers corresponding with his various breeding lines. He explained the pedigree of many of his lines in this video. [...]