Blue_true
Blue_true's JournalFor the coming growing season.
I am interested in cross breeding two tomato varieties. I want to cross breed a branch San Marzano tomato plant with pollen from a Portuguese oxheart tomato plant.
I will look at when to start each variety so that they go in bloom at the same time. What I am interested in is how to cross pollinate tomato flowers so that I don’t get the pollen that I don’t want on a stamen. Since tomato flowers point downward, it seems that preventing an undesired pollination is going to be a difficult task. One person believes that very small eyedroppers that can be used to suck out undesired pollen may work, although painstaking. The desired pollen can then be sprayed on the stamen. All that assumes that bees don’t blow up the entire plan, since they are industrious little beasts by day and I have just so much time to dedicate to the effort.
Any experts that have successfully cross bred tomato plants?
I realize that I won’t see the actual outcome until 2022.
On edit: I have done selection of tomato seeds to improve things like size and color, but I have never tried to cross breed. The reason why I am trying now is that I believe that I can tweak the flavor, San Marzano tomatoes are rich flavored, Portuguese Oxheart tomatoes are mellower flavored. One other option is to select seeds for several seasons until I get the San Marzano variant that I envision and forget about the cross pollination.
Questions about portable drills and Helicoils for wood applications.
Hi, I have tended to use an electric drill during the few times that I have used tools.
I have a home project where I will be building a holder for heavy rectangle boxes for a relative.
I have done the design, but I have two related questions.
What is the best 18v brushless portable drill on the market. It must take a drill bit up to 1/2 inch? I did some reading this weekend and there seem to be conflicting review information. Bosch, DeWalt and Milwaukee are well known names, but I read a lot of claims that their quality has slipped, people buying expensive drills that either didn’t work, lasted a few uses, or failed after a few months. I generally hate to go through the process of sending a defective item back, typically I just swear off the manufacturer and throw or give the thing away. So, since I need the drill for an immediate project and one later on where I will be doing a gardening construction project, I want to get things right on the first pass.
For those of you that use them regular AND have purchased a drill within the last 2 years, what drill should I buy?
I have used Helicoils before, but there is not a lot of information on ones that work well in wood. The item that I am building for my relative will take a lot of dynamic force. I am concerned that if I use self-piercing screws, over time they will chew up the wood fiber around them and loosen. I found only one video online where a guy inserted Helicoils into wood, but he appeared to have used the same ones that are used for metal and didn’t explain his choice of those particular Helicoils for a wood application.
What are the best Helicoils for inserting into wood? I expect to have some cases where I will be using 1/2 relatively fine thread screws. Should I use the same Helicoils that I would use for metal and put Loctite on them during installation, or would that be a mistake?
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