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Tomatoes Determinate and Indeterminate, Bush or Vine
I don't have a good grasp of tomatoes.
My rough guess is that ancestral tomatoes were indeterminate and very viney things. Bush variety then were cross bred for their stouter stems and perhaps shorter internodes. I only have a Better Bush in the "Bush" variety to check. What a stocky plant that is! It looks to me that the first lateral branch is always just below the first flower and that is the number 6 branch. I expected more variety but that is the way it is with my Early Girl, Better Bush, Better Boy and a couple of mystery heirlooms. The Better Bush is listed as indeterminate, although most bush tomatoes seem to be determinate. Is there a hard line between determinate and indeterminate or are todays determinate tomatoes just at the end of a long breeding line to have all their fruit near the same time? Or was it more like a switch? On another note, I'm thinking of just letting some of the tomato varieties just vine out along the ground. What precautions should I take? Jeff |
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Tomatoes Determinate and Indeterminate, Bush or Vine
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Jeff Thies wrote: I don't have a good grasp of tomatoes. My rough guess is that ancestral tomatoes were indeterminate and very viney things. Bush variety then were cross bred for their stouter stems and perhaps shorter internodes. I only have a Better Bush in the "Bush" variety to check. What a stocky plant that is! It looks to me that the first lateral branch is always just below the first flower and that is the number 6 branch. I expected more variety but that is the way it is with my Early Girl, Better Bush, Better Boy and a couple of mystery heirlooms. The Better Bush is listed as indeterminate, although most bush tomatoes seem to be determinate. Is there a hard line between determinate and indeterminate or are todays determinate tomatoes just at the end of a long breeding line to have all their fruit near the same time? Or was it more like a switch? On another note, I'm thinking of just letting some of the tomato varieties just vine out along the ground. What precautions should I take? Jeff Precautions against humidity from the ground and its attendant mold. Additional care in hand watering. Precautions against insects that will now have easier access to your vegetables. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html |
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Tomatoes Determinate and Indeterminate, Bush or Vine
Billy wrote:
In article , Jeff Thies wrote: I don't have a good grasp of tomatoes. My rough guess is that ancestral tomatoes were indeterminate and very viney things. Bush variety then were cross bred for their stouter stems and perhaps shorter internodes. I only have a Better Bush in the "Bush" variety to check. What a stocky plant that is! It looks to me that the first lateral branch is always just below the first flower and that is the number 6 branch. I expected more variety but that is the way it is with my Early Girl, Better Bush, Better Boy and a couple of mystery heirlooms. The Better Bush is listed as indeterminate, although most bush tomatoes seem to be determinate. Is there a hard line between determinate and indeterminate or are todays determinate tomatoes just at the end of a long breeding line to have all their fruit near the same time? Or was it more like a switch? On another note, I'm thinking of just letting some of the tomato varieties just vine out along the ground. What precautions should I take? Jeff Precautions against humidity from the ground and its attendant mold. Additional care in hand watering. Precautions against insects that will now have easier access to your vegetables. Thanks. Sounds like a good argument to stake. Jeff |
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Tomatoes Determinate and Indeterminate, Bush or Vine
Jeff Thies wrote:
I don't have a good grasp of tomatoes. My rough guess is that ancestral tomatoes were indeterminate and very viney things. Something here on that, and the lack of real genetic diversity: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/1...c.2010.10.2.40 Jeff |
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Tomatoes Determinate and Indeterminate, Bush or Vine
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Jeff Thies wrote: Jeff Thies wrote: I don't have a good grasp of tomatoes. My rough guess is that ancestral tomatoes were indeterminate and very viney things. Something here on that, and the lack of real genetic diversity: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/1...c.2010.10.2.40 Jeff And we share about 99% of our genetic make-up with chimpanzees, and 70% with earthworms. We do, after all, come from the same bowl of soup. As for the tomato, like everything else, it's location, location, location. http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/1...c.2010.10.2.40 -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html |
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