Re: weird tomato

I once cut into a store-bought tomato and found a couple of seeds has sprouted inside it. It wasn't over-ripe either, just had been sitting on the counter a while. Isn't the gel around the seeds supposed to inhibit sprouting? 

Maria


It is stranger in real life!.....A few things about this... it wasn't
cracked when put on the counter, so what ever is growing made it do
that. (so I doubt a weed seed got embedded.) It also isn't over ripe-
basically still firm and in my opinion had a couple more days before it
was time to eat it. Something keeps stealing or taking a bite out of my
tomato's so I have been bringing them in and letting them ripen on the
counter....


  Donna

andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
Donna-I sent your message and picture to my Hort advisor at Texas Tech-maybe she'll know. That is weird and quite frankly a little creepy looking, or maybe I've been watching too much of the scifi channel. I'll let you know if she gets back with me. Keep us posted on the progress of the alien tomato! 
A

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna"
To: "gardenchat list"
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:33 PM
Subject: [CHAT] weird tomato
It has been one strange year for me. Tonight as I was rinsing the dinner 
dishes, I noticed one of the tomatoes has sprouted on the counter! I
have NEVER seen this before. It isn't a joke, or a phoney picture, it's 
real, I took it with my moms camera. The tomato split slightly and
coming out is>>>>> I don't know, did a seed sprout in it? Is that
possible?


Weird....

Haven't used Flicker in awhile... not sure this will work....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19229841@N08/



Donna


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