Supermarket Tomatoes II

[applestar]

Interesting -- are they all growing like this? I wonder if they had some dwarf genes in their make-up (I believe dwarf trait is recessive.

FYI:
Subject: Learning • Practicing to Cross Breed Tomato Varieties

As for the genetics and basic concept of what kind of progeny these may produce, this is always a good guide: https://kdcomm.net/~tomato/gene/genes.html

...you may have seen it before.

[Garf]

We'll see what they end up like. At first, all 8 seem identical.

[Garf]

Latest pic of batch 2 tub 1.

[feldon30]

I admire your adventurous nature in planting seeds from supermarket tomatoes. I hope you are keeping your expectations low.

My feeling as well.

There are some 12,000 tomato varieties, including thousands of heirlooms with known parentage and documented flavor. Even if I had 5,000 square feet of garden space, I'm not sure I could spare a spot for a seed from a tasteless red baseball from Walmart.

Hopefully your results prove me wrong and you get something tasty and productive!!

[Garf]

There a lot of blooms in Tub #1 plus one baby.

[Voices30]

I live in Florida and I am jealous. I live much farther north than you, and I can say with the utmost certainty that there will be no tomatoes blooming in my yard anytime soon! HAHA

[rainbowgardener]

yeah and the rest of us have nothing but snow and ice in our gardens!

[Garf]

Once every few years we do get a hard frost in Miami. The last hard freeze was in 1972. More pics to follow soon.

[Garf]

More babies, 2 medium size fruit, a ton of blossoms. I may need to thin the foliage.

[Garf]

Here are 2 plants from batch 2 I put into 6 gallon pots. They are slightly lagging the twins despite being started at the same time.

[Garf]

The first 2 tomatoes from the 18 gallon tub have a bad case of blossom end rot. I just examined the whole lot today. They are the only bad ones. Very disheartening.

[Garf]

The last survivor from batch 2 is coming back after a severe trim to eliminate disease.