You might want to post this in the Tomatoes forum. Dr. Carolyn Male frequents the area and she may actually know. Unfortunately, most hybrids are highly proprietary and the parent stock is closly guarded by its producers to the extent of even destroying "obsolete" lines. Some discontinued hybrids are impossible to reproduce because the original parent stock has been replaced by newer "improved" lines.

Thank you. I found a few old Pixie II seeds. I'm going to plant them and see if I can dehybridize them over several generations.
Tamar

I would suggest multiple backbreeding to a perpetual clone of the pixie. you would have to overwinter it every fall and winter so that you could grow out the previous summers seeds and select the best plants from them to pollinate the original pixie. collect those seeds and breed them back to the original clone and so on. After several years you should have a line of mater seeds that perform to your satisfaction!

is there a tomato variety that is amune to bronze wilt virus.

Are you talking about the hybrid released by Burpee Seeds?
If so I was in on that and that was a cross of two lines that came straight from USDA seed repository. They were characterized as "dwarf tree type" by the USDA in a collection which now goes by the name of GRIN. We just crossed everything we could get a hold of and one of the crosses was a bit better than the others. Of course, we liked to use hybrids because no one could reliably grow the next generation to look like the first and we had a lock on the parents.

Though no one asked. If you ever saw the Burpee catalogue or sale racks in the 70's, there was a small 3 year old girl holding the tomatoes standing next to a tomato plant. She showed up on many banners and catalogues for about 5 years. That was my girl.

Thanks for your response to my question. Your job must have been fascinating. I wasn't gardening in the 70's so I don't remember your daughter's picture. I would love to, why don't you post a scan.

Dear Autotetraploid,

Could you possibly tell what two parent lines one would order from the Grin system to replicate this hybrid?

Thank you in advance!