A White Skinned Tomato? - Page 2

**carolyn137** · January 15, 2017

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Originally Posted by Keen101

I grew Fantom Du Laos last year. I liked it. But has anyone else noticed how microscopic the seeds are for this variety compared to other tomatos?! They are so small i'm surprised no one has mentioned it before.

I had sent remy at the Sample Seed Shop some varieties to work with and she sent back Fantom Du Laos in a Xmas card and I did grow it, and again I'm going to link to tania's page for it

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/F...b=General_Info

None of those reporting back said anything about very small seeds, and to be honest it wasn't a variety I liked so I saved no seeds,even after I had cut some fruits to taste.

Probably the best person to ask would be remy herself.

Aha, I just remembered from Tania's link that it was a person in Canada who first SSE listed it so I took a look at my latest Yearbook and I find 5 who are listing it and no one mentions anything about seed size. Several talk about yellow tints, not pure white, but that makes sense to me also,since most whites,so called, can show yellow,when the foliage is sparse,but more often when grown in the south.

Carolyn

Keen101 · February 7, 2017

as an update to my offtopic mystery above about the Fatom du Laos seeds i saved this past summer and how they were unusually small. I decided to put them under the microscope to compare. I used DXX-M as a control for Domestic tomato seed size. I then used S. galapagense seed as a wild seed size control. Then i put a small seed (typical of most of what i saved last year) and i also looked for the biggest seed i could find in the batch as well. The results are interesting, but inconclusive.

Based on this i have found that most of the Fantom du laos seed i saved last year was indeed unusually small and comparable of size (maybe a smidge larger) to wild tomato seeds. Though the biggest seed is of comparable size to any domestic tomato seed and shows that not all the seed i saved was of unusual size. Not sure if that means anything. Or if it's just one of those weird oddities. Could the small seeds be indicative of being crossed F1 seed?

February 7, 2017	#17
Keen101 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Colorado Posts: 134	as an update to my offtopic mystery above about the Fatom du Laos seeds i saved this past summer and how they were unusually small. I decided to put them under the microscope to compare. I used DXX-M as a control for Domestic tomato seed size. I then used S. galapagense seed as a wild seed size control. Then i put a small seed (typical of most of what i saved last year) and i also looked for the biggest seed i could find in the batch as well. The results are interesting, but inconclusive. Based on this i have found that most of the Fantom du laos seed i saved last year was indeed unusually small and comparable of size (maybe a smidge larger) to wild tomato seeds. Though the biggest seed is of comparable size to any domestic tomato seed and shows that not all the seed i saved was of unusual size. Not sure if that means anything. Or if it's just one of those weird oddities. Could the small seeds be indicative of being crossed F1 seed?