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In response to "so, last year it was surprise tomato plants. this year? surprise onions." by znufrii

volunteer tomatoes from store bought scraps or hybrid plants tend to be weird because the seeds revert to one of the parent stocks

Posted by zeitgeist Jun 23 '13, 12:03

store bought tomatoes are specifically breed for hothouse, even hydroponic growth and when grown naturally tend to have bland taste, mushy fruit that splits, heck practically explode spontaneously just before ripening. (store tomatoes are picked green just when the 'star' forms on the bottom and gassed before distribution to pink them up)

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Yesterday, at the mission, we saw a volunteer tomato plant in one of the flower beds and remembered there'd been one in the same place last year. - Meg Jun 23, 12:31 1
- we compose most of our trimmings and always have them popping up in all our planting beds and hanging planters - zeitgeist Jun 23, 13:04

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volunteer tomatoes from store bought scraps or hybrid plants tend to be weird because the seeds revert to one of the parent stocks

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