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The Magic Tomato Plant

Gypsy Jan - 2-22-2011 at 06:32 PM

It spontaneously grew up in the ground above our septic tank in October. (Yes, I can hear you saying, "Ewww!")

It was transplanted to to a container a few weeks ago.

To date we have harvested about fifty sweet, ripe Roma tomatoes and it is still growing more.

woody with a view - 2-22-2011 at 07:23 PM

coool. we have a cherry tomato that survived the winter. these were the sweetest tomatos we've ever grown. i made sure to save seeds and let some ripe ones fall. now i'm thinking about just cutting it back and letting it continue to grow as the days get longer.

O.G. - 2-24-2011 at 12:01 PM

I let some cherry tomatos regrow from last season seeds and the new fruit (vegetable?) declined in sweetness. Within 2-3 generations they were "winey" tasting.

In another life, I grew avocados commercially and ALL new plantings had to be from grafted stock. From seed was a roll of the dice as to the eventual characteristics when the tree matured.:?:

Mexitron - 2-24-2011 at 12:55 PM

My first ever trip to Baja was in 1975 to Gonzaga Bay---my friend Wade Grindle and I had to take some trash to the dump which, back then, was in the salt flats on the edge of the encampment. While we were dumping the trash I found a tomato plant growing in the salt flat and with a big beautiful red tomato on it....couldn't believe they would grow under those conditions.

toneart - 2-24-2011 at 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
It spontaneously grew up in the ground above our septic tank in October. (Yes, I can hear you saying, "Ewww!")

It was transplanted to to a container a few weeks ago.

To date we have harvested about fifty sweet, ripe Roma tomatoes and it is still growing more.


Ewww! :lol:

One time I grew one tomato plant in a flower bed in front of my house while living in San Diego. It was a Better Boy plant. To my amazement, it had 72 huge tomatoes on it at one time.

I made a sign that said, "Stand back! These tomatoes were developed at Los Alamos Radiation Laboratory, New Mexico." :o:o People would walk up to the sign, squint and then jump back. Very entertaining to watch. :bounce: