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Originally Posted by Fusion_power

I grew several S. Pimpinellifoliums over the last 7 years. A few of them were very attractive to birds. My neighbor has an area filled in with large rocks. The birds dropped a few seed which promptly grew into highly productive but small fruited tomato plants that covered the rock area. I ate a double handful of very tasty ripe tomatoes from those plants this evening. They grow back from seed every year. I tell him he has the only natural reproducing population of wild tomato plants in the U.S. Are they as hardy as Johnson Grass? No, not quite.... but they are getting there. Next year I plan to drop a few LA0417 seed into his rocks and see what happens when a disease tolerant wild tomato hits those rocks. BTW, this rocky area is very similar to growing conditions in the native range of S. Pimpinellifolium in Peru and Ecuador.

It's amazing how tough and determined a plant can be, and if it is tasty too, well that just makes it even better.