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opened, and too late to use as the mother in a cross (because already self-pollinated), but are right to collect pollen from. In the inflorescence in the middle, there is one flower in which the sepals have just begun to open, and is a prime candidate for crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/50cf9385-f786-4482-aff7-62384903925a/IMG_1265.jpeg The Art - Timing is Everything: Making a Cross-Pollination Here I’m about to dab the stigma of a flower I’ve emasculated (removed the anther cone from) into some of the pollen I’ve vibrated into a little container using a cheap electric toothbrush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/d49cb259-f7fb-48c1-821b-0bfa7572d7ac/IMG_8501+2.jpeg The Art - Timing is Everything: Making a Cross-Pollination Once a fruit is well on its way to forming, I put a teabag around it to keep track of it and keep it safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/d842c1ab-ace9-4321-9c65-63427ac89541/Ripe.jpeg The Art - Timing is Everything: Making a Cross-Pollination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-gh7f3 monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8ddd0230-461a-48dc-9b4e-6b954ab28cab/journal-pbio-1002379-g001.png The Art - Origin Story This is where tomatoes came from, and there are still wild relatives living there to this day. (the little shapes on the map) For any plant it is useful to know where it came from, it’s original environment, the conditions it evolved in, adapted to. How much sun exposure, how much precipitation and how is that precipitation distributed throughout the year (for instance many CA natives evolved to have a summer dry period). Tomatoes originated in Peru and Ecuador over 80,000 years ago, where it is warm and relatively dry. The genes evolved from that place, from those conditions; an interplay between the plants and their environment, and so that is where a discussion of the genes begins. Pease et al. (2016).  Phylogenomics Reveals Three Sources of Adaptive Variation During a Rapid Radiation. PLOS Biology Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/097f5b7c-a79d-4cfc-9ebf-10d3eb7a21a2/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+8.17.27+PM.png The Art - Origin Story Pease et al. (2016).  Phylogenomics Reveals Three Sources of Adaptive Variation During a Rapid Radiation. PLOS Biology Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/536bc7d6-810d-472e-8f49-c9d5c89a1822/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+12.34.36+PM+2.png The Art - Origin Story This diagram illustrates what the fruit of many of those wild relatives look like, and indicates whether that species is able to interbreed with the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). The closest relatives are the three on top. All tomatoes are derived from Solanum pimpinellifolium (Currant Tomato). Du, M. et al. (2025).  Molecular breeding of tomato: Advances and challenges. J. Integr. Plant Biol.  67:  669–721. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/36b4dbb3-90ef-40b9-b0ec-d81f1e3f0d82/pbio.1002379.g002.PNG_L.png The Art - Origin Story As these research papers show, tomatoes are related to other species of Solanums, some more closely related and able to interbreed with tomatoes. The closest related is called Solanum pimpinellifolium (Currant tomato) which phylogenetic studies show is the common ancestor of all cultivated tomatoes. Pease et al. (2016).  Phylogenomics Reveals Three Sources of Adaptive Variation During a Rapid Radiation. PLOS Biology Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/00ca48ee-6506-485b-a37c-b5e973903c20/Super-pangenome+analyses+highlight+41588_2023_1340_Fig1_HTML.png.webp The Art - Origin Story Li et al. 2023 Super-pangenome analyses highlight genomic diversity and structural variation across wild and cultivated tomato species. Nature Genetics. 55: 852-860. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/77d434d3-4620-4e46-8b99-93f662f54a79/Tanksley+SD.+2004.+The+Plant+Cell+16+S181-S189.png The Art - Origin Story Solanum pimpinellofolium compared to heirloom type, through domestication, and selecting for certain traits allowed to become bigger, but also lost diversity “genetic bottleneck” Tanksley SD. 2004. The Plant Cell 16 S181-S189 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/dd9903fe-1801-4beb-b4ef-39ce84824b52/Flores+et+al+2024+Tomato%27s+Tale+images_large_pbiomes-09-23-0091-mff2.jpeg The Art - Origin Story This shows the tomato's journey of domestication. Flores et al. 2023. The Tomato's Tale: Exploring Taxonomy, Biogeography, Domestication, and Microbiome for Enhanced Resilience. Phytobiomes journal 8: 5-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/1773602769166-GGL56ZAH4PU3FXZ03JCA/Screenshot%2B2026-01-14%2Bat%2B8.49.51%2BPM.png The Art - Origin Story So heart tomatoes have (sun) gene elongating them (developed post-European domestication) and (fas) gene combining their carpels. Rodriguez et al. 2011. Distribution of SUN, OVATE, LC, and FAS in the Tomato Germplasm and the Relationship to Fruit Shape Diversity. Plant Physiology, Volume 156, Issue 1, Pages 275–285, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/88d60bc0-d687-42cd-b79b-085616fa2db7/Screenshot+2026-01-14+at+8.40.48+PM.png The Art - Origin Story Charles Rick really opened the door to incorporating wild species genes into tomatoes and to understanding tomato genetics. He went out and collected those wild relatives and helped figure out how to cross-breed their genes into tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/75862a91-9a90-4b65-be5b-dba883d544b1/TGRC.png The Art - Origin Story His collection is maintained as a resource for tomato breeding to this day at the UC Davis C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/aded52cc-0fe5-4e44-b306-7d6d9d112d49/Screenshot+2026-01-14+at+10.10.14+PM.png The Art - Origin Story The tomato contains 12 chromosomes, and thanks to the pioneering work of Charles Rick and so many others, the location of many genes are well-documented (some locations have been refined since; from TGC Report No. 37, 1987) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/5df5e41d-29d9-4356-8a51-8af770bf1d90/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.02.02+PM.png The Art - Origin Story One of the main things Charles Rick and others did with the wild relative genetics was to improve processing tomatoes. They diverged into their own type that is distinctly different from fresh-market tomatoes (which includes heirlooms and modern hybrids) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/66fa9366-8f70-422a-83e5-0c9fd226cc93/Ortega-Salazar+et+al+2025+Genetic+Basis+5.jpg The Art - Origin Story In 1940 San Joaquin county became the number one county in the US in canning tomato production, due to climate and soil. Through advances in incorporating wild relative genes for disease resistance and productivity and harvestability and more recently through advances in irrigation with subsurface drip, the yield per acre has quintupled. Yields: 1940: 10 tons/acre 1960: 17 tons/acre 1980: 24 tons/acre 2024: 50 tons/acre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/30165d09-756c-45bd-a651-b213b745edf5/Ortega-Salazar+et+al+2025+Genetic+Basis+6.jpg The Art - Origin Story Tomatoes are more adaptable to climate change than many crops, and with the availability of the wild relative genes and breeding programs, likely to continue being an important crop. Some of these genes are relevant to all tomato breeders, like disease resistance and shapes, and drought tolerance, others are desirable only for processing tomatoes. Besides vastly improving processing tomatoes, he contributed to the understanding of tomato genetics in general, which we will get to later, but first back to heirlooms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/9593f2be-b039-48c6-b238-f71a3cd3f5ca/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+9.50.18+PM.png The Art - Origin Story As well as modern hybrids, fresh-market tomatoes include the heirlooms that were passed down through generations, like the famous Cherokee Purple. The flavor is so good, and vigor, that it has been used as a parent for many many other varieties, such as Berkeley Tie-Dye, Orange Caprese, Elgin Pink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/e0208107-2f1e-4812-9413-ffa921964913/Screenshot+2026-03-15+at+12.24.28+PM.png The Art - Origin Story These don’t have modern disease resistance (happened in the 1970s), but were round and could be in the parentage of some modern varieties. Around this time many heirlooms were being saved, Mortgage Lifter, Cherokee Purple, Amish Paste, that would later be widely shared especially in the 1980s onward by folks like William Woys Weaver, Carloyn Male, Craig LeHoullier. Many varieties were lost, but many are still available. Kind of like heirloom selection (saving seeds from the best, most vigor, most flavorful) but also looking for especially round and smooth and other new and unusual traits. “I can repeat the process at will, securing new varieties which will again produce after their kind; and, at least, under my cultivation, will never deteriorate, or ‘run out.’ For they are original, distinct varieties, and will bring forth their like, as will anything else; and they are as capable of being cultivated into ‘strains’ as are those of cattle, hogs, chickens, or other plants and fruits of distinct kinds. (p 22) Just imagine if he realized that he could crossbreed them with their wild relatives, all the varieties he could have made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/35964285-bac9-45cb-9ab4-9e1d004b60c2/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.09.16+PM.png The Art - Origin Story Thorburn’s Terra-Cotta 1893 Another old heirloom recently made available, seems to be many subtle variations- which is the real one? More important which grows best and tastes best? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/0a8f9eb7-55fa-492d-827b-ca58abe5af82/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.09.27+PM.png The Art - Origin Story These already have pretty good vigor, crossing with modern disease res would make them even more desireable. As long as you’re growing your favorite varieties anyway, you might as well try crossing them. But keep in mind the genes, so you can know what to expect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/0eb5c320-4be6-4b89-b643-fdb9679b8764/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.10.58+PM.png The Art - Origin Story Which one is the real “Cuban Salami”? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8cc1ad95-e4ab-495f-9c8f-620a495e6708/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.11.11+PM.png The Art - Origin Story Besides adapting varieties to your taste and climate, saving your own seeds also ensures that you keep growing the exact variety you want, as long as you keep careful records yourself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-ntadw monthly 0.5 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/23332c75-353b-4f7c-adf6-329b28aa4712/Poma+Amoris+Tomato+Botanical+Chart.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-bc9md monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/56c10c83-1ae1-476d-b7c1-f64e9574d1a4/Fruit+Color.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/a866693f-20c9-48ba-b717-59783980c734/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+9.31.34+PM.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows Color in tomatoes is like a layering, starting from the inside out and from the top of the carotenoid creation process to the bottom: At the R locus, you can have the wild-type (R) red allele, the mutant (r) yellow allele or a mutant (ry or bicolor) bicolor allele. What’s happening is that that a enzyme called phytoene synthase 1 (PSY1) is partially (bicolor) or totally (yellow-flesh) dysfunctional. PSY1 is a precursor to all carotenoid development, so a tomato with two copies of the (r) allele that creates no PSY1 has something like 80 percent lower carotenoids than a tomato with the (R) allele. In the bicolor allele, there is a very ineffective copy of the gene; it has a huge insertion it it’s promoter, so it takes longer to read the gene, and makes only small amounts of what becomes lycopene. That lycopene then naturally goes to certain places in the fruit first as it develops, and thus the pattern of red streaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8f1f343f-e677-438d-b2f5-3b34b6979745/Carotenoid+copy+2.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows This image shows how bicolor, yellow, tangerine orange, red, beta orange and delta orange are related. The next step in the carotenoid pathway is called carotenoid isomerase (CRTISO) created by the T gene. This gene allows orange-colored prolycopene (aka tetra-cis-lycopene) to be converted into red-colored lycopene. If the gene is dysfunctional as in the mutant (t) allele, then the tomato accumulates prolycopene, and no lycopene is made; it is orange, “tangerine orange” after a representative tomato which has that gene. Typically tastes fruitier than beta orange and is solid orange. If there is at least one copy of the T allele to create CRTISO, then red lycopene is made. This is the typical red tomato. But from there, if there is a copy of the Beta gene as well, the lycopene that is created is then converted into orange beta-carotene, this is a “beta orange,” typically tastes more carroty, and often has reddish center. Or if there are two copies of the recessive B og allele (null-beta “old-gold”) then no beta-carotene at all is made, which results in more lycopene remaining. These are known as old-gold or “crimson” tomatoes, which are a redder color of red, and have red locules (gel surrounding seed is red instead of green). (They are called old-gold because of their characteristic flower color pattern). Or if the Del gene is present, then the orange-colored Delta-carotene is created, converted from lycopene. This is a more unusual gene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/e3e884f7-38ad-4539-a0fc-dd4c0b9c8d9c/Screenshot+2026-03-20+at+11.12.38+PM.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/b5c21307-1d84-4239-a759-1842587264ef/Carotenoid+with+gf+copy.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows With the addition of the (gf) greenflesh gene other colorations are possible. It combines with the products of the carotenoid genes to make different colors. With an otherwise red tomato, the greenflesh gene would make it a brown tomato •For a pink tomato (red with clear epidermis (y gene, next topic), the greenflesh gene would make it a purple tomato For orange , it would become ochre (brownish green color) For yellow, it would become yellow green, “green” •For white/ivory (yellow with clear epidermis (y gene, next topic), it would become “clear green” With a bicolor tomato that’s yellow with red in the center, it would become green with red in the center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8eee3c50-0a62-4409-8932-7f767ad89d2e/IMG_2930+copy.jpeg The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows The next layer to understanding tomato color is at the Y locus: There can be the wild-type (Y) yellow epidermis (aka skin) or the mutant (y) clear epidermis. This accounts for the difference between: Red(yellow skin), brown(yellow skin), green(yellow skin), yellow(yellow skin), orange(yellow skin) and pink(clear skin), purple(clear skin), clear green(clear skin), white/ivory(clear skin), light orange(clear skin) Two more layers that can occur in combination with any other combination are the Aft (anthocyanin fruit) gene, an introgression from the wild species Solanum chilense that causes the purplish or “blue” color on the skin, and the greenstripe (gs) gene, which can be other colors besides just green. And there’s also a Fruitstripe (Fs) allele that provides a different pattern of stripes, radial ones that meet at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/f7f30606-68a1-4a38-81fc-c97ee40fd254/Screenshot+2026-03-20+at+10.05.06+PM.png The Art - Fruit Color Dynamics: Layers and Flows Jim Myers of Oregon State University created the Indigo Rose tomato which has the Aft (Anthocyanin fruit) gene from Solanum chilense as well as the atv (atroviolaceae) gene from Solanum cheesemaniae, which upregulates anthocyanin expression in the whole plant, synergizing to have especially strong anthocyanin in the fruit epidermis. There is a variety of tomato called Purple Smudge that has a gene from Solanum peruvianum that is similar to Aft and causes purple traces on the shoulders in sunlight; chromosome location unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-bc9md-kzbxn monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/84e9fdd0-088b-44d3-9be3-da2b025dec62/Chromosome-behaviour-at-meiosis-Meiosis-consists-of-two-rounds-of-chromosome-segregation+2+copy.png The Art - Mating, Match-making, Meiosis: Little Dances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-bc9md-rgt7z monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/537e4965-633d-4be2-8c54-247dd248af5f/from+seed+savers+exchange.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8fdb6590-9c3d-4933-82f0-604b5a2b6087/shutterstock_314564888-910x604.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/aefbe0b1-e0fa-4427-843d-a534c25d4544/craig-1.jpg.webp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/5b5556ee-6cfc-4832-ae90-9a93f46e8757/Screenshot+2026-02-23+at+7.53.59+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/250b0a02-de46-466e-ae0f-f50ae8c7c78d/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.16.35+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/c6a8bbe3-98b2-498a-96b9-8c51c48e9d08/Screenshot+2026-02-23+at+7.53.03+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/2eda2812-40f0-4a08-b243-49fa8cbc0500/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.56.09+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/867b93fb-1785-46c6-9b66-032c5374e7b8/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+1.48.37+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8e3f5749-8346-43ea-8c67-0e0f31dc3448/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+8.50.23+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/0bbfa4e1-aa17-464a-9f51-a925fe3a57c5/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+8.50.40+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-nxay3 monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/d4b00962-3071-48c3-bac1-9d4aab6d2ac3/Seed+cycle.png The Art - Moist, Warm, Disease-Free: Starting Seeds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/a3a951a9-8772-4bca-973a-1dd2a3a5dfc1/1+week.jpeg The Art - Moist, Warm, Disease-Free: Starting Seeds To start my seeds, I use a well-draining coir based soil mix, full spectrum grow lights, and heat mats at 80 degrees. This is after 1 week, I went on to pot them up into 4 inch pots between 1 and 2 weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/9dc97227-8c5c-4120-bd34-ea21efdf4b82/1+month.jpeg The Art - Moist, Warm, Disease-Free: Starting Seeds After 1 month, these are ready to be set out and put in even bigger pots or planted in the ground after about a week or two of adjusting and growing outside. (The nighttime temp must be 50 degrees or above to avoid potential damage to tomato plants, so don’t start seeds more than a month before that if you’re planning on setting them outside then). I started them here in early-March, and set them out mid-April (partially covered as they adjust to sun exposure). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-3fkdh monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8e9d6170-101b-4826-8373-8ffc1cdb0d47/IMG_2901.jpeg The Art - Dry & Cold: Saving and Storing Seeds Saving seeds is the first step. You can save seeds from existing varieties, year after year selecting the ones that grow most vigorously and taste best to you. That’s very fulfilling in itself. If you’re saving a few, all you need is a paper towel, a pen and a piece of tape. If saving more, then cups or buckets, and a strainer, and paper plates (for drying); ferment 3-5 days and pour off scum and add water and swirl pouring off bad floating seeds and rinse until clean and strain, spread thin on paper plates and dry for a few weeks. Hybrid varieties (F1) seeds won’t be “true” (the same as the parent) and sometimes have unforeseen traits like male-sterile (in which you would need to hand-pollinate each and every flower to get fruit) and so can be frustrating to get involved with, but also an experiment. Some varieties are patented and the seeds are not legal to save. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/d6b19fc8-084e-4a6c-b160-81fccb5de36b/IMG_3424.jpeg The Art - Dry & Cold: Saving and Storing Seeds It’s not necessary, but if there’s one thing that makes a big difference, it’s saving your seeds in the fridge. My germination rates are really excellent. I have ten year old seed that are almost all germinating. For fresh seed, make sure they air dry for a few days, before putting them in a paper envelope (breathable) and store in gallon bag or Tupperware with desiccant packs. They like to be cold and DRY. This is worth doing if you are serious about any kind of seed saving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/e9d534d8-d414-4560-9a23-ed405b9ab008/IMG_2885.jpeg The Art - Dry & Cold: Saving and Storing Seeds Putting tea bags around fruit as they develop helps keep track of them and limits loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/276f52f4-3434-4ed2-91ba-590a33ec519b/IMG_2803.jpeg The Art - Dry & Cold: Saving and Storing Seeds After seeds are cleaned of their gel by pulling them across paper towel, I let them dry for a week, then put them in the labelled envelopes and enter the info in a spreadsheet. Organization is important. I use a spreadsheet to count number of seeds, origin, date, and notes on genetics, flavor, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-3keea monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/ee08bd8e-d2f1-44bb-ae15-c02c520f7985/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+11.52.53+AM.png The Art - Introduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-3keea-lay3z monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/1301d5c6-8d44-44ad-a9b7-e4768a315746/Untitled-1.jpg The Art - Seeing What's Out There (Mostly with my photos, a few elements from MerakiSeeds and TomatoFifou). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-3keea-lay3z-wy67z monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1/project-one-f5w4d-k6lpy-rk5le-bc9md-kzbxn-r2d82 monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/6d3fe8ae-5e0a-4c98-8ef1-d634f57a515e/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.27.55+PM.png The Art - Choreography/Weaving: Mendelian Genetics R (Red fruit) and r (yellow fruit); RR homozygous will be red, Rr and rR heterozygous will be red, rr will be yellow. About 1 in 4 will be yellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/3f7d211a-8a43-483a-828c-95707663b9c3/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.27.41+PM.png The Art - Choreography/Weaving: Mendelian Genetics C (regular leaf) and c (compound leaf aka potato leaf). CC homozygous will be regular leaf, Cc and cC heterozygous will be regular leaf, cc homozygous will be potato leaf. About 1 in 4 will be potato leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/1ae47ba9-1c21-4d9f-bd12-600541ef1d99/Screenshot+2026-03-13+at+9.27.33+PM.png The Art - Choreography/Weaving: Mendelian Genetics When crossing RR/cc (Red fruit regular leaf with and rr/CC (yellow fruit) potato leaf; About 1 in 4 will be yellow. About 1 in 4 will be potato leaf. About 1 in 16 will be both yellow and potato leaf. This helps demonstrate the difference between selecting for a Dominant or recessive trait. If you wanted for example a red fruit with a potato leaf, you can select at the seedling stage just the potato leaf seedlings to continue (screening out the regular leaf), and all subsequent generations will have potato leaves; it is locked in. But for the red fruit, you can weed out the yellow flower phenotypes(or yellow fruits) and save the red fruit ones, but because of the way that the Dominant trait masks the recessive one, you can't be sure that it is RR until you grow the next generation and find that out of them there are no yellow ones appearing any more (sampling/tracking). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/61972886-52fe-4af0-a8ad-071b0b5cc347/Screenshot+2026-02-02+at+3.36.28+PM.png https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1 daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/ef06c70a-958e-4ae2-a647-1727ca02fcb5/k2FPhoto2FRecipes2F2024-06-pico-de-gallo2Fpico-de-gallo-0135-cropped.png RECIPES - Pico de Gallo https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/812000c1-9fb2-4ead-aca2-30fabec5828c/tomatochutney-1.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Chutney https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/bdf07c9e-f30f-498c-a749-5cc6d6ccd9e7/Page-67-web-horizon.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Crostini with Whipped Feta (Ina Garten) https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/f2faefb5-6ed0-42f5-a56a-947051123c43/Gazpacho-in-a-Bowl.jpg RECIPES - Gazpacho (Ina Garten) https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn monthly 0.5 2025-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/72a4fa86-4dc3-4a62-ae93-f183c420a613/tomato-soup.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Soup (Ina Garten) with Tuscan Twist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/54409ab4-9e6c-46ba-992f-1c8d6abd7226/tuscantomatosoup.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Soup (Ina Garten) with Tuscan Twist https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/4698577a-419a-4de2-973a-ad015d6ee5a9/201108fw-xl-tomato-aspic-c563267c04624027b46bea375ffb2f75.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Aspic Moderne https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-j225w monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/f324d921-2891-4465-9c90-d75720854f07/5798101246_129b487b68_b.jpg RECIPES - Fresh Tomato Sauce with Spaghetti https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w monthly 0.5 2025-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/39cd747f-313a-4967-82de-25d688bb7833/1529943365287+copy.jpg RECIPES - Panzanella https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-8w53n monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/9c2dc269-800d-4ae7-8f33-212c91530c68/Shakshuka-3-2+copy.jpg RECIPES - Shakshuka https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-a3twt-26ffd monthly 0.5 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/3845a90f-2019-4793-8805-6f12206c6372/34815t2+copy.jpg RECIPES - Savory Tomato Cheesecake https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-4r4zh monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/b89f45da-849d-421d-bb20-1615dbf6f9bc/IMG_1997+copy.jpg RECIPES - Bocconcini with cherry tomatoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/313a0d59-8b60-4968-b967-caa1ba313460/IMG_1996+copy.jpg RECIPES - Bocconcini with cherry tomatoes https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-a3twt-26ffd-5pnl2 monthly 0.5 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/7044f215-4ef5-479b-8171-2f30d31d2558/IMG_0082+copy.jpg RECIPES - Lactic Acid Tomato Fermentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/d3f928e5-7882-4a25-9051-7ffba93670b8/IMG_0085+copy.jpg RECIPES - Lactic Acid Tomato Fermentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/000094b5-e2be-46a6-90f1-6911225730a2/IMG_0086+copy.jpg RECIPES - Lactic Acid Tomato Fermentation https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-hj7an-9exr8 monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/8136035b-25d9-44c0-8c00-7ed7b4e46ed9/Japanese-Tomato-Curry-6121-III.jpg RECIPES - Tomato and Potato Curry (Mild) https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-j58ky monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/9b681098-e4e7-401f-8c3f-29caa5079ae8/IMG_2085.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Tomato Saffron Risotto with Basil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/99f154fb-c897-45c5-ab07-bff1d75504cb/IMG_2100.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Tomato Saffron Risotto with Basil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/4c722d65-f974-4086-ab3b-5d08e1fa87bd/IMG_2110.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Tomato Saffron Risotto with Basil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/ea900c83-edf4-40dd-8fb3-470d9f7a14d7/IMG_2088.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Tomato Saffron Risotto with Basil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/c33b667a-b55e-439b-955e-fc53db592a76/IMG_2039.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Tomato Saffron Risotto with Basil https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-hj7an-9exr8-ceh2t monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-lf7zx monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/bdf07c9e-f30f-498c-a749-5cc6d6ccd9e7/Page-67-web-horizon.jpg RECIPES - Tomato Melt https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-two-ky966-z76cd-cr5fe-krytm-n2xsj-zs8yn-4wzwj-we44w-j58ky-dsm23 monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/dc62ee1b-53dd-43b3-bef8-7c5785b768fd/IMG_2099.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/985e1f8e-3b26-44f6-8479-091895925126/IMG_2084.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/bf2a606b-f653-4035-9ca2-b4f6fd194423/IMG_2101.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/168d9b99-b6c5-4382-9ad4-203242d73842/IMG_2106.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/c64671c7-fd42-41f0-a00e-c2af09bd3d13/IMG_2109.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/929bd22e-e79e-4b82-9d76-255585a87abc/IMG_2067.jpeg RECIPES - Baked Nigerian Jollof Rice https://www.pomaamoris.com/portfolio-1-1/project-one-f5w4d-845hd monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/850da09b-3066-4fb3-8b07-ee82f5dfefd7/tumblr_pwgnj2ublG1qa1ggdo5_1280.jpeg RECIPES - 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Mandy's Magic Marbles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/e6d20fdf-8834-4891-b9a2-9349cccf82dc/IMG_2889.jpeg POMA AMORIS - Mandy's Magic Marbles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/cc7bcd6d-b271-4f53-b53c-54bb01d8291c/IMG_2865.jpeg POMA AMORIS - Mandy's Magic Marbles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/1754799317764-ZHFOKQMOTK7C5O4EU1ZA/IMG_2886.jpg POMA AMORIS - Mandy's Magic Marbles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675a546cb18ab068c2249108/5cb95022-e11b-4e8b-a1de-d911c8d483e6/IMG_2866.jpeg POMA AMORIS - Mandy's Magic Marbles https://www.pomaamoris.com/blog-1/project-one-f5w4d-bapgz monthly 0.5 2026-03-24