What are common tomato misconceptions/mis-knowledge?

[Tracydr]

I wouldn't use the aluminum. I suspect the tomatoes would dissolve it. I once had sourdough breaddough eat holes in aluminum foil!

[brokenbar]

Well, I never thought about it eating through...Does anyone know if the crock pot bags come in different sizes? Actually, after using the non-stick spray and scraping the sides I have not had much trouble but it would sure be a faster cleanup. I hate clean up...I was lucky in that I got to build a separate canning kitchen here in Mexico like I had in Wyoming so I have restaurant stainless deep sinks and counters and we put a drain in the tile floor so I can hose the whole inside down ( because no matter what, I find tomato seeds in the darn-dest places!) Have all kinds of storage for the canning stuff you only use once a year. Great light and my tomato mill is permanently mounted. Also have a 6 burner restaurant stove ( went to an auction in Texas and bought all the restaurant stuff used.) My Handyman gives "tours" to his relatives...once more the crazy Gringa...

[sic transit gloria]

Originally Posted by RobinB

I now know that all seeds from all tomatoes on any given plant are genetically identical (thanks Craig!)

All seeds found within all tomatoes borne by a given plant are genetically identical?

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by sic transit gloria

All seeds found within all tomatoes borne by a given plant are genetically identical?

Assuming there's no insect/wind/external influence cross, yes.

[Doug9345]

Originally Posted by sic transit gloria

All seeds found within all tomatoes borne by a given plant are genetically identical?

No. A given genetic combination is as likely to occur in one fruit on the plant as it is in another.
For example Lets take two genes AB that are dominate. And four corresponding recessive genes abcd. Now assume that the plant we have is AaBb and self pollinates.
Now each ovule will have half the genes of the total plant. The possibilities are AB, Ab, aB, and ab. The same will combinations will happen in the pollen. When these combine when the flower is fertilized. Then the possible seeds are AABB, AAbb, AABb, AaBB, AaBb, Aabb, aaBB, aaBb, aabb. So out off a plant with two gene pairs the are nine possible seeds. If each tomato has enough seeds all nine possible seeds will exist in every tomato on the plant.

[sic transit gloria]

Thanks for the replies. This statement didn't make sense to me on a practical example level. If I have a KBX plant growing next to a Carbon plant, and a bee comes along and lands on a blossom on the KBX plant and then flies over to the Carbon plant and lands on one of its blossoms and pollinates that blossom, the tomato that grows on the Carbon plant will look just like a Carbon tomato should, but the seed from that tomato will have genes from both plants, resulting in a cross-pollination. Yet, the rest of the blossoms that bear fruit on the Carbon plant will not have this same cross-pollination.

The way the original poster phrased the "misconception," it sounded like "regardless of external factors, all seeds are the same on a given plant."

[The Future]

This is a gem of a post.

Originally Posted by amideutch

You can't grow tomatoes in;

Pic #1. 1gal container

Pic #2. 3gal container

Pic #3. 5gal container