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Old November 30, 2015   #48
joseph
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Originally Posted by Ambiorix View Post
Every owner of a type of tomato grows to possess the real type of tomato.
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Each will have in the future to resolve in it if we want to fight the blue danger
I am a farmer that doesn't care if a plant grows true to type. I don't care about conformity. I go out of my way to encourage promiscuous pollination in everything I grow. I am especially welcoming of promiscuity in tomatoes, which I think have been damaged as a species by too much inbreeding. I welcome any unseen wild genetics that might accompany the blue gene.

As an example: To me, these are all the same variety of tomato:

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