onetwothreetim: I've given up on live rootstock. Gurneys burnt me so many times that I lost all faith. Once I ordered a walnut tree and it came with the roots exposed in air and the branches wrapped with sphagnum moss! Me, too, unless I'm desperate. Just isn't worth it. Pay more and get better first or start your own and wait longer. Good luck with your seeds. I'm getting hooked on starting outside in containers....I started my Bee Balm a few weeks ago and I'm having much better luck than planting it in situ. Thanks, I've got 17 containers and assorted ready to plant ASAP. It's a late start, but I've been successful with perennials in prior years that way, as long as you get them in the ground about 2 months B4 hard freeze. One year I stuck 5 1 gal nursery containers of coreopsis in the ground just before a hard freeze. They survived, only have two left but one has spread so much I will need to divide it. 25-cent pkt of seeds. So you never know. I figure even though the tops froze off right away, the roots were still protected, wouldn't work for some things. It was either that or overwinter in sunroom, and I didn't want 5 more things to pamper thru winter. The WS forum has been very inspiring. Here is a tip someone gave me here last year when I wanted to start some gypsophilia (the florist kind) in situ. Scoop out a cavity, fill with potting soil, plant your seeds, put a 2 liter soda bottle over it with cap off. Water when there's no moisture in the bottle. It worked great, but the gypsophilia wasn't happy, have two dinky ones left, never bloomed. Already tried chalk at someone's suggestion, crushed up drywall. It's a gamble when it gets too hot. Gotta post this, daughter here.

If you read the blurbs, it is only intermediate resistance, not immunity. You MUST protect the plants to some degree or they will always go down with TYLC. There are some varieties available now that have more stacked resistance genes. Four genes are in current literature ty-1, ty-2, ty-3, and ty-4. Check the Florida breeding program for some details. One of the new resistance mechanisms is plants that repel whiteflies. Combine this with some of the virus tolerance genes and we should have tomatoes that grow and produce regardless of whitefly presence. The Florida breeding program is working on this but may be a few years away from highly resistant plants.

I germinated seeds from a store bought fruit, and got a very high germination rate putting the seeds in moist potting soil. I planted them in pots, and unfortunately lost all of them except one during Huricane Katrina ( I live in the New Orleans suburbs and was forced to evacuate ). Last year I put the remaining plant in the ground, and it really took off. Right now it's about 10 feet tall and has ~7 or 10 different clusters of flowers. It made it through winter fine (just a little leaf burn), and this with a couple of nights near freezing. Late last summer shortly after it was planted I got one cluster of flowers, but no fruits. Hopefully this year I'll have better luck.

So your seeds are not pure anything if they give plants with yellow fruits and plants with red fruits? (wink) And when referring to the Sarasota type you are talking about the Everglades one,which is a currant,and even more interesting,at least to me and others is that a person in S Florida thought his daugther had bought a plant of the Everglades one (red) and it turned out to have PINK fruits, a nice epidermis mutation. Ted sent me the fruits,I saved the seed and it really is quite unique as well as tasting great http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Ted%27s_Pink_Currant#tab=General_Info Tania goofed in sayin red but good to know that she is selling seeds for it for 2016. Hope that helps, Carolyn Right now I'm not sure how I can alter my above post with your new information, but I'll try.Now say not from the Galapagos,but from the Andes and yes, Solanum pimpinellifolium, the currant (red), is originally from the Andes either Ecudor or Peru and seeds for it are sold at lots of places. And yes,I was the one who introduced Sara's Galapagos and Amy named it and yes,it is a stable interspecies hybrid as Dr. Chatelet told me and he's at theTGRC in Davis, CA, and I loveSara's Galapagos just as much as I loveTed's pink one,