heartshaped tomato question

[charline]

I cant remember what someone said about a heartshaped fruit on a otherwise beefsteak shaped variety. If there is only one fruit a heart, what is that? what about saving seeds from this fruit?
thank you for any infos (before I eat it.....)

[Lee]

I would suggest the shape in that case is environmental. I have had cases where more than one fruit was heart shaped, only to find out next year that everything came out blunt/oblate....

However, it never hurts to save seed from that one and try it out next season!

Lee

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by charline

I cant remember what someone said about a heartshaped fruit on a otherwise beefsteak shaped variety. If there is only one fruit a heart, what is that? what about saving seeds from this fruit?
thank you for any infos (before I eat it.....)

I had to go fetch the link to Orange Minsk Heart to refresh my memory:

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Orange_Minsk_Heart

Jim had both heart and beefsteak shaped fruits on the same plant, I think only two hearts. He saved the seeds from those two heart ones separately , labelled them and sent them to me.

Yes, as Lee said, it's known that weather can cause some hearts to appear on a plant that isn't a heart, but that usually means they just have a nipple at the bottom and aren't true hearts and many say that happens, usually, when there's high sustained heat. And yes, I've seen that as well even though I live in a zone 5 b'c that heat can alter fruit shape when it's hot just when the new young fruits have started to develop.

All to say that if it were me Charleen, I know I'd save as many seeds as I could and just see what happens when you put out plants from those saved F2 seeds.

Carolyn

[charline]

it was a delicious meaty Rebel Yell and it had exactly 52 seeds....

[Tormato]

It's blunt, and the taper is convex.

When I save seeds and trial fruit of that shape, next years fruit always turn out to be beefsteaks.

When the taper is concave...that's another story.

Gary