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Freeze Proof Tomato?
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 ... 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? -- Elroy Willis EAP Chief Editor and Newshound http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news |
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