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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2011 22:01:15 GMT -5
Anyone know what causes a bunny tomato?
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 16, 2011 9:56:24 GMT -5
There can be a number of causes. most often, it's caused by a few extra lobes of flesh. If the tomato is an aggregated one (two or more tomatoes growing so close together they are actually attached) one can be pollinated earlier or mature faster, and so overgrow the other (this is particualry likey in cases where the "head" is ripe but the "ears" are still green.) Finally some tomatoes can develop creases in beween the vesicles (the "sections" or "cavties" the seeds form into) in extreme cases, this can result in sections that are almost completely seperated. The varities "Reisetomate" and "Brain" have particualry strong versions of this, which is why the tomatoes look the way they do, and can be pulled apart like a garlic clove. I have a strain (derived from a hothouse) where the three vesicles are extremely dissected so that the result looks like a trefoil. If that tomato had had one section grow much faster than the other two, a bunny would have been the result.
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Post by kctomato on Aug 20, 2011 14:26:41 GMT -5
Anyone know what causes a bunny tomato? It can be like blueadzuki mentioned about two fruits forming at different rates however, it is most often due to style tubes that do not fuse with or grow as long as the others yet still get pollinated/fertilized. As the fruit swells post-fertilization these tube(s) develop and swell forming an appendage (bunny ears). Where the split of the tube(s) occurs (how far down to the base and carpels) dictates its size, location and whether or not it may contain seeds. Here are some examples: a style tube that only formed about 3/4 the length of the others.
Here are two pics of stigmatic surfaces which were not even due to uneven style lengths and may have potentially resulted in appendages
And I don't have a picture but when I emasculate flowers for crossing I sometimes find a style tube or tubes that stick out or are split off from the rest. It would look something like this:
not papavic's bong
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 3, 2012 14:05:17 GMT -5
Does anyone have any extra seeds for the OSU blue tomato that they could send me? Alan sent me a packet in 2010, but i was unable to grow any. I had one nice good plant, but it died before i could plant it. I think i still have a few seeds left, and I'm going to try again this year, but a few more seeds would be very helpful.
P.s. Also I'd eventually like to get some seeds of ZAPOTEC TOMATO. It looks like it would be a very tasty tomato. So if anyone has seeds for that also, let me know.
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Post by traab on Feb 3, 2012 18:32:26 GMT -5
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Post by elkwc36 on Feb 3, 2012 23:32:07 GMT -5
ndigo Rose is offered from Oregon State University. www.territorialseed.com/Has any one found other sources? Nichols Garden Nursery and Johnny's both offered seeds earlier for it. I don't know if either has ran out or not. Jay
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Post by tatermater on Feb 5, 2012 2:03:24 GMT -5
I don't sell seed of the original Indigo Blue but I have lots of seed of dozens of new varieties deriving from the ancestral pool of it. I have blues in all colors of flesh now, but am limiting my releases to just a few at a time.
I did not want to pay a dividend to the OSU by selling the original. Having bred up new lines I can do away with variety protection and do not have to be hindered with the paper work and besides, I can foster open source plant breeding by not being a prisoner of current consensus.
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Post by wildseed57 on Feb 5, 2012 13:30:04 GMT -5
I haven't had bunny ears, but I have had some totaly doubbled tomatoes that were just bearly attached to each other the flowers were sqeesed flat and were larger than the rest normally I pick these flowers off because of the fact that they make deformed fruit. George W.
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