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Related: About this forumAfter growing tomatoes 40 years, I learned something new.
Tomatoes can sprout?! Three tomatoes we cut open today looked like this. (These are internet photos, not my tomatoes.)
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Like you, I had never seen any do that in the past. When I first cut one, I thought it was wormy but then I realized they weren't moving and looked more like bean sprouts than worms.
Croney
(4,657 posts)I'm stunned that I didn't know this before. I guess I don't know everything after all. 🤔
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)but considering all the seeds in tomatoes, we should not be surprised.
Croney
(4,657 posts)I'll believe it when I see it! I wished her luck.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Gel, the germination inhibitor can wash off the seed and germination will follow
Croney
(4,657 posts)Kali
(55,007 posts)My son is caring for several young grapefruit trees that were out of sprouted seeds in grapefruits from my small potted tree last year.
My sister sent this picture to me a couple of years ago.
Croney
(4,657 posts)Kali
(55,007 posts)kind of frightening.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)just to the right? That could be the entrance hole for a tiny little green worm that get inside the fruit.
Retrograde
(10,133 posts)but they need a warm climate to survive. Mine will continue to set fruit through October, but the first frost kills the plants. Their ancestors back in Mesoamerica were perennial, and produced tiny red fruits year-long for the birds that spread their seeds.
Croney
(4,657 posts)Before the first frost, I'm out harvesting all the green ones and then the plants die and we pull them out.
Retrograde
(10,133 posts)and heat to survive. The last fruits that set in October rarely ripen, even indoors.
I once kept a plant alive until December: even though I live in the San Francisco area we do get temps in the mid 20s. I've heard of people keeping dwarf varieties alive in pots by bringing them indoors in winter, but I've never tried.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)When we lived in Tennessee, if we going to get the first frost, we'd pull up the plants and hang
them upside down in the barn. We left the green and slightly ripe tomatoes on the plants, they would continue to ripen.
Croney
(4,657 posts)Right now we have the green ones on trays, covered with paper and kept in a cold indoor porch room, away from the light. Sometimes I've had a cherry tomato on New Year's Day that was picked in November! No taste to it, but I love the ritual.