Save the seeds and plant them to see what you get is exactly what you should
do.

The only way to know if the traits are heritable is to grow plants from the
seeds.

You will need to cut open the fruit and carefully remove the seeds.

It will be a tricky matter removing the seeds from the pulp and drying them
but may be worth it if you can grow plants from them whith the traits you
suggest.


Elroy Willis wrote in message
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Hi,

This year I grew some tomatoes in a pot on my patio, and after several
hard freezes, after all the other tomatoes had turned to a greenish
mush, there was left a single red tomato, with a skin that didn't seem
to be susceptible to all the previous freezes.

I couldn't really believe that there was an actual tomato which
withstood all the freezes we've had here in north texas, but on
the vine was a single tomato that seems to be somewhat impervious
to the cold. The skin isn't even wrinkled, and it looks like the
tomatoes I picked from the plant back in early December before
all the freezes started in from time to time.

I wonder what to do with it, and think maybe I should save the seeds
inside the tomato and try to start a new cold-resistant strain that
might prove profitable in some way.

What should I do to protect the seeds and start up a batch from
those seeds at this point?

I can't really tell which original type of tomato it was, since I had
three varieties planted in the same pot and I didn't keep track of
which plants were which. One was Early Girl, one was Heat Wave,
and I can't remember the other type.

Is there a good chance that if I keep the seeds and grow some
plants from them that all the plants will be more cold resistant than
the previous generation?

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Elroy Willis
EAP Chief Editor and Newshound
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