This is a really interesting find – a tomato plant that is producing two different types/shaped fruit! One fruit looks similar to an oxheart variety and the other is pleated like a beefsteak.
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Hi everyone, I just would like to add that if you want some really great information on this topic of crossbred tomatoes from a LOT of clever people please scroll down and read their comments! Many have written in-depth and interesting explanations on what might have happened to cause the two different tomatoes on the one plant (as shown in my video) and I personally have enjoyed reading and learning from them all. Thanks! 🙂
I know a lot have chimed in, but I have been doing a lot of research on this subject. The flowers from two separate types of tomatoes can cross pollinate, and only those specific tomatoes that were cross pollinated will hold the genes of the hybrid in their seeds only. so a cross pollinated tomato fell and those seeds grew the first generation hybrid, the F1 series as they call it. this is a very unstable hybrid and will hold characteristics of each type, more or less of both parents sporadically. selective breeding is how you choose the individual tomato that you like the most and save those seeds for the second generation hybrid. this stage will be more consistent with the characteristics you have chosen but will still be randomized and inconsistent. another selection of the best quality tomato and those seeds will provide Gen 3. so on and on until you are breeding a consistent and true hybrid that shows likeness through all seeds planted and all the tomatoes are alike. That may be 4 to 8 generations of mindful selective breeding. That's how you make your very own breed of tomato. I am going to try this myself with oxheart and Roma. thanks for sharing your Fankenmater plant!
Looks like two different stages of growth. The tomato plant is on the way out. It hurrys up an inmature tomato before the ribbing is obvious on the fruit.
Lol just watched the end. Hiw about a t shirt that says green frogs = healthy garden.
So glad I found this! Last year we grew beefsteaks and this season a plant grew from reseed. My neighbour's plants are are 10 feet from ours and grow cherry tomatoes. We just picked a bunch and noticed both types on the same plant and had no idea this happens! Thanks for the awesome video.
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Would like to hear about growing tomatoes in winter and summer in the subtropics
Maybe all the same, just the shape is a recessive gene trait, but maybe it's becoming more dominant. Or just the phenotype is coming out for that style has a natural defense which the plant may prefer……or NOT. LOL
Old video I know But what Was that toast With the tomatoes?
Cross pollination does not work like that. E.g if a lemon tree is pollinated by a lime tree the fruit will be the same lemons as always, if you took the seed from the resulting lemon and grew that then you have a new variety.
Marc, have you plant the seeds from this tomatoe again? What was the result? I’m so curious
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Tomatoes don’t express in the original fruit. It could be incomplete pollination, or if separate branches, it could be a chimera. Only way to know is to grow out the seeds from both shapes.
My cucumbers have their very first female flower on, found it today. So exciting. Our burr gherkin is finally starting to take off. It’s been so tiny for 3 weeks. It loves a bit of water from our fish pond daily. I can’t wait to see what it will do. We just harvested the final potatoes. Now to feed and replant that 4ft x 16ft bed. I think some Japanese melons and a small wax gourd. Need to plant some garlic chives and daikon radishes too. I love being back in the garden.
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no im thinking those tomatoes look like the twins are out.
The pollen grain enters the stamen of each flower and fertilizes the ovum of the tomato, so it is possible that each tomato is pollinated by a different grain of pollen from various tomato plants with unique characteristics.
Surprised the birds don't stack your fruits and veg. For us, as soon as fruits and veg start to yellow (sometimes when its still green) they whack it.
I had a green frog in my car boot just this Saturday "wtf" what the frog don't know how it squeezed in through the gaps but never the less I cut holes in a large bottle I had in the car put him in and drive straight home because he had come from my yard I have ponds and kept tadpoles since I can remember anyway what a shock but they all ways make them selves known when you least expect it I find
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I would guess that it's an F2 hybrid. The first crossings (F1) tend to look genetically stable in the first generation, but will not breed true to type. In the second generation, genetic confusion becomes apparent. It may not know what kind of tomato plant to be if it has genetics for two very different types. Knowing that you like to save your seed, this would seem to be the obvious explanation. If true, there's nothing wrong with the tomatoes. You can even plant the seed from it and narrow the genetics by selection, which would produce a tomato plant that WILL breed true to type within a few generations. Such hybridization is not a problem unless you're selling seed and need to either label it an F2 hybrid (usually for a reduced price because of the unpredictability of traits) or guarantee that it will breed true to type.
I googled this, and came across your video. I had this happen this year too. Mine is way more obvious, it’s two tomato verities. It’s obvious because it’s growing on a purple Ukraine tomato plant. It hasn’t ripened yet. If it’s not a different verity, then that particular purple Ukraine tomato is abnormally huge and not shaped like one..I can not wait to see what happens..curious what’s became of the plants you harvested from that plant
I have a plant producing cherry tomatoes and one pleated looking heirloom. Really weird. My other cherry tomato has some small cherrys up top with some noticeable pleating too. I always flick the flowers so I doubt it's pollination. Maybe mutation?
This season I have two very healthy cherry tomato plants producing two different varieties of tomatoes. The seeds planted were for orange Sungold tomatoes, but halfway through the season some plum-shaped red tomatoes began setting. Currently the plants are populated with half orange and half red tomatoes with both varieties being distinct, flavorful, and sweet. Like others, I believe stress caused the transformation of the two plants. The growing season where I live started late and was very cold and unusually wet. This was followed almost immediately by very hot temperatures and drought. This along with the plants being started indoors ~60 days before being put outside may have caused the variation in fruit due to the rapid changes in their growing conditions. Why the other 3 plants aren't exhibiting the same issue is perplexing…
The same thing happened to my tomato plant. Regular tomato then the oval tomato in the same plant. A couple of years ago I had a few oval tomato plants growing in my garden. So I don't know?
I had this happen with my green beans. Some elders long and round and others were short and flat. Idk
I had a green zebra turn into a santorini style one like that, i think it was cross pollinated with some i santorini, pretty interesting i meant to save seeds from it but forgot and ate them
I had a huge problem with the potato ladybug, i ended up just spraying pyrethrum and that seemed to wipe them out, found one or two since but i just squish them
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