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Old July 16, 2017   #2
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I'm not all up on tomato genetics, and was wondering this....

I'm saving seed now. I have lots of large tomatoes and some of those tomatoes are megablooms. I have the normal size ones th cultivar should be that were on the plant and from same cultivar different plant it made almost all megablooms.

When I save the seed, do I need to keep them separate and marked separate? I don't know if making megablooms is a trait that passed on to next generation or not.
You should never ever save seeds from a fruit that resulted from a megabloom and here's why.

You have many blossoms in that megabloom and pollen from other nearby varieties can be transferred there by pollinators and can fertilize different blossoms,thus giving you one ugly fruit that has who knows what in terms of seeds in it.

In my experience many varieties form megablooms early in the season,especially the large pink PL varieties and then that stops and only single blossoms form.

Genetics?

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+...&bih=788&dpr=1

And Julia from PA says

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/...?b=33&p=509534

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