Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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July 9, 2007 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Upstate SC, Zone 7
Posts: 543
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Compari - OP or Hybrid?
I saved some Compari seeds and planted them this year. I only kept one plant. The tomatoes from it look and taste pretty much like the Compari tomatoes from the store, in other words it bred true. However, I was visiting with my brother the 4th of July, and his family asked me to identify some of the tomatoes they were getting from their plants, which I gave to them. They didn't keep the labels.
Anyway, they had one variety that didn't look like anything I planted, but they insist came from a plant I gave them. It was an 8-12 ounce round, red tomato. They had a number of those. I also observed some of their plants had tomatoes growing on a truss with 8 or 10 tomatoes, only the tomatoes were large tomatoes, not cherry or salad sized. I suspect these came from the Compari seeds I saved, as in it is indeed a hybrid and prone to throw backs. I told them to save the seeds if the flavor is good, because it certainly is productive. I just wondered what anyone else who had saved Compari seeds was seeing from their plants. Care to add to the discussion?
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