FREAK TOMATO-STRAWBERRY CROSS IN FRANCE

[canadamike]

WOW! This one is weird. They are following it very closely. Would be fun if the seeds were viable...one can hope...


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[Alan]

LOL, that's not a strawberry tomato cross, for one it's not possible, for two it's just a tomato that has either cracked or not developed a skin to encase the gel and seeds. I see it happen all the time in the greenhouse.

A nice practical joke to pull on folks though.

[orflo]

Who are you fooling? ;D ;D ;D

[canadamike]

I then was going to add a bit of pseudo science about colchicine and quadruple haploids in maters to match the chromosome numbers of the berries (octoploids), but because you smelled the rat, my joke is over. The guy who sent it to me from France believes in it, and I did nothing to convince him of the opposite, quite the contrary. My first reaction was to tell him they tried for 200 years to cross the chilean white berry to their own, but it could not happen because theirs were tetraploids only...but then a plan came to mind.

Now that I have been rated out, I feel guity ...and the worse, there is somebody in this forum whom I caught on chat with it. I feel awful and ask that person for forgiveness, but don't worry grungy, your secret is safe with me

[grungy]

Ah, Michel, I knew, but I thought that I would let you spin your own web and then hang you with your own rope. Just because I go along with something, doesn't alway mean I believe it. But thanks for fessing up. I still think you need a packet of mother-in-law seeds.
Cheers,
Val / grungy

[canadamike]

;D

Keep the seeds grungy, I am trying to get YOU in trouble, not myself!

It is so good to have people with a great sense of humour!! But while we are only the most regulars here, and experienced, I miss a couple of folks whom I would have loved to catch!!

Think of it: with all that genetic manipulation, salmons with veggies DNA and all, or the opposite, the backdrop for a joke like that is perfect, the key word was ''bees'', and if you happen just to fly over it, it does not seems impossible at all, your brain already preprogrammed not to be surprised anymore.

[Alan]

I didn't mean to kill your joke buddy! I'm sorry, we will wait a few months and repost during the busy messageboard fall season and see who bites!