Odd question re tomato growth??

Jeannine Anne · June 14, 2010

Hi, this is one I have never personally come across so am hoping someone can tell me the answer.

I started to grow Tommy Toe toms a few years ago, I had a fairly large amount of seed and always used the same ones for about 3 years,grew and tasted just as I expected them to. Last year, still using the original seed I had an odd looking branch of fruit that grew differntly to all the other fruit on the vine and they ended up much smaller.

I kept seeds from fruit from that one branch just for curiosity.Marked the packet Tommy Toe??

This year I sowed what I though was my original Tommy Toe, actually I had forgotten about the others,but these are different.

While everything else was growing on these little plants grew to about 5 inches and stopped, they have dark green very healthy foliage, strong tough stems, I didn't pot them on after the 4 inch pot stage. Just watered and left them .

After planting everything else out these little plnts were still sitting there..

Realising I had made a mistake and planted soemthing very different I went trough my seeds in my T seeds to see what I had written on the packets for germinating in 2010, on the Tommy Toe packet the last year I grew them was 2009, but on the Tommy Toe?? package I had written 2010.I had planted these odd seeds by mistake.

7 germinated and all are super healthy yet very small plants.

Yesterday I was going to chuck them, but changed my mind..not sure what to do but curious.

Sorry to be long winded

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this please? Just 1 branch was different, not the whole plant.

XX Jeannine

June 14, 2010	#1
Jeannine Anne Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 1,553	Odd question re tomato growth?? Hi, this is one I have never personally come across so am hoping someone can tell me the answer. I started to grow Tommy Toe toms a few years ago, I had a fairly large amount of seed and always used the same ones for about 3 years,grew and tasted just as I expected them to. Last year, still using the original seed I had an odd looking branch of fruit that grew differntly to all the other fruit on the vine and they ended up much smaller. I kept seeds from fruit from that one branch just for curiosity.Marked the packet Tommy Toe?? This year I sowed what I though was my original Tommy Toe, actually I had forgotten about the others,but these are different. While everything else was growing on these little plants grew to about 5 inches and stopped, they have dark green very healthy foliage, strong tough stems, I didn't pot them on after the 4 inch pot stage. Just watered and left them . After planting everything else out these little plnts were still sitting there.. Realising I had made a mistake and planted soemthing very different I went trough my seeds in my T seeds to see what I had written on the packets for germinating in 2010, on the Tommy Toe packet the last year I grew them was 2009, but on the Tommy Toe?? package I had written 2010.I had planted these odd seeds by mistake. 7 germinated and all are super healthy yet very small plants. Yesterday I was going to chuck them, but changed my mind..not sure what to do but curious. Sorry to be long winded Has anyone ever experienced anything like this please? Just 1 branch was different, not the whole plant. XX Jeannine