Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa - GrowZone 9
Posts: 595
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Lost label - Can you help, perhaps?
I know this is very difficult, but just in case, here are three pics of the plant, which has just produced a flower, so is possibly an early variety, though that's just my theory.
     Thank you for the time... Last edited by huntsman; January 5, 2010 at 08:14 AM. |
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January 5, 2010
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
Posts: 21,169
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I can't view pictures 1 and 2 but #3, the one with a lavender blossom ,looks like an eggplant blossom to me. And I can't see the foliage well enough to confirm that. But a plant with a lavender blossom is not a tomato.
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa - GrowZone 9
Posts: 595
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Oops! LOL!
I've upped the two missing pics now, Carolyn, but I guess we now know the answer? (I'm sure I'll tell this story when I'm more learned, but right now there is a deep pink wash spreading from my ears forward!) 
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oakland MS
Posts: 231
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definitely not a tomato, LOL
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: WV
Posts: 603
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Well, you are in the same family...and yeah, the foliage definitely puts it in the 'eggplant'/aubergine side of that family.
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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From the first picture I knew it was a weed we have in Texas or egg plant.
Knowing that nobody in their right mind would grow weeds I knew right off it was egg plant. Now I want to know, did you think this was a tomato plant? Have you ever grown egg plant? If you haven't, have you ever tasted egg plant? Back to the weed we have here in the USA. It is not a jimsonweed it is not a loco weed and it looks just like an eggplant and the only thing I can guess it is, is what the old timers call ground cherry. The wild plant puts out a small fruit that looks like a tomatillo it is in a pouch and is yellow when ripe. I'm afraid to try one as I might go crazy, run naked and then die a horrible death brought on by convulsions and external bleeding.  Worth |
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa - GrowZone 9
Posts: 595
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HAHAHAHA!
Dang, that conjures a fine picture, Worth! Never grew anything other than a beard before this season, so no tomatoes, and certainly no eggplants, though I surely do love 'em! |
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Mounds, Oklahoma
Posts: 257
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Worth I think you are thinking of Horse nettle
"Horse nettle" - Google Search |
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January 5, 2010
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: WV
Posts: 603
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Horsenettles...<I'd write what I think about them but then it would all be musical notes or something>...but that plant is obviously lacking the one trait that makes horsenettles so obnoxious...the thorns.
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