Mystery tomato

[Gazeofslate]

Hi,
It has been quite a long time since I logged on Tomatoville and rightly so as I was busy relocating to Ireland !
Long story short, I found a tomato plant growing between a crack in the pavement and a wall, in the street. I've been really surprised as to how it could grow in such conditions, even more given it had so little soil... Maybe an inch of mud.
Oh and the fact that it just grew at all... I mean, the location, climatic conditions... How'd a seed get there ? How did it germinate ?!
Anyways... You can guess what happened next !
Just put it in a pot. Now I have absolutely no idea what variety this is, don't know if it's a hybrid, an open pollinated variety, a determinate or an indeterminate plant, and so on...
It's just flowering now, given the size and location/shape of the flowers I'm pretty sure it's not a cherry tomato variety, doesn't look like a beefsteak either (no big, fused blossoms), but only time will tell. I'll make sure to harvest seeds and to grow them, we'll know for sure then if it's an hybrid or if it's open pollinated !
If it's an hybrid I guess I'll try to stabilize it and find a cool name for it.
Just wanted to share this with you as I thought it was a rather funny story.

[imp]

A tomatoville version of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"?

Happy moving and re-settling.

[carolyn137]

How about this?

tomato growing in sidewalk crack,in red, just above table three

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...crack+sidewalk

This thread was posted by Mischka the first year that Tville opened and it's a great review of what it's all about with tomatoes.

There are other sidewalk crack tomatoes as well,and in Googling here I missed a link but the tomatoville link is there.

https://www.google.com/search?q=toma..._AUIBygA&dpr=1

Carolyn

[Cole_Robbie]

Neat. It reminds of the poem The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur.

[Rajun Gardener]

From the pic I would guess someone got too drunk and puked at the bus stop sign and the nicotine in the cigarette butts kept the bugs away. Grow it out, she's a fighter!!!!

[Old chef]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

How about this?

tomato growing in sidewalk crack,in red, just above table three

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...crack+sidewalk

This thread was posted by Mischka the first year that Tville opened and it's a great review of what it's all about with tomatoes.

There are other sidewalk crack tomatoes as well,and in Googling here I missed a link but the tomatoville link is there.

https://www.google.com/search?q=toma..._AUIBygA&dpr=1

Carolyn

Carolyn
Thank you for sharing this extremely informative article. You can learn something every day

Hope you are feeling well

Old chef

[Gazeofslate]

Update : It's fruiting

[disneynut1977]

I too, want to see how this turns out. Keep posting updates.

[Gazeofslate]

I will, I will.

[imp]

I had wondered what had happened with it! Hope you are enjoying your move.

[Gazeofslate]

Well it's a plant, takes time ! It's hanging in there, doing just fine and outgrowing its stake in its little homemade pot/planter. I do enjoy Dublin quite a bit, although it's much smaller than what I expected.