Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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August 20, 2016 | #1 |
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F2 of a grocery store hybrid paste
Labelled the "chefs tomato" I bought a clamshell of grocery store pastes last winter and I liked them enough to save seed which is actually saying something. Anyway I grew out a couple this year in a pot and they are doing better than I would've thought nice plants pretty little oval plums with virtually no gel at all in the loculus. I haven't had a ripe one yet but I did eat the semi right one (pic below) and it tastes good although I am quite sure it'll taste better once they are ripe obviously. The plants are big and bushy and healthy and I think I might keep going with this one as it's going to be a really good OP cooking tomato if it will stay this way.
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August 20, 2016 | #2 |
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Plants (4) in one big pot
Foliage is nice too |
August 20, 2016 | #3 |
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interior of a blushing unripe fruit. solid, meaty, no gel.
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August 20, 2016 | #4 |
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Karen,if it's the Chef's Orange ,there's another thread about it here that might interest you but maybe a search since I don't remember where it is.
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I don't believe it is the same one as you mention. Anyhow, I'm certain the fruit I bought was hybrid so might be fun to bring this forward and make it OP Karen |
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August 21, 2016 | #7 |
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August 22, 2016 | #8 |
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That is the best way, Karen.
But one can also cut this way :
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August 22, 2016 | #9 |
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If it was a heart I'd agree,but it isn't a heart,as you show, as compared to the fruit form that Karen showed.
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August 23, 2016 | #10 |
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I was just praising you, I mean you can learn or show more about a variety by cutting it horizontally and not vertically. Cutting vertically falsely makes it look more meaty. I say falsely because it's a phony way to make it look meaty and it could just mean it was cut between locules/seed pockets, and we'd never know how many locules it ever had--it could be a watery, seedy tomato behind that wall! Cutting horizontally (equatorially?) doesn't hide anything. Heart shaped fruits are obvious from the outside, there's no need to cut them vertically to show they are hearts.
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Looks to me like a misunderstanding and now all is well. Karen very nicely cut a cross section through the middle,picture shown,which does show the locule arrangement . Carolyn
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August 20, 2016 | #12 |
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If both of your plants are identical ( fruits, foliage ) Then by the probabilities, there is is good chance that F3 generation will be the same.
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August 21, 2016 | #13 |
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Karen, that is a beautiful plant and nice looking fruit. I don't remember ever seeing a tomato look like that inside.
It will be interesting to see how the F3s grow and produce next growing season. |
August 23, 2016 | #15 |
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Oh I see. cutting what I would call lengthwise. I agree, it doesn't show the locules accurately. To show a tomato interior, I always cut in half in a cross section horizontally which shows the interior pattern better, locules as well as coloration in the case of a bicolor for example.
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