Re: Need help

**"Doreen Howard" d*@ticon.net**

Are you sure this isn't a stuffer tomato?  Those have thin walls, three
hollow sections, are scant on seeds and look like bell peppers.  And, they
come in yellow.  Tomatoes and peppers are two distinct families with no
relationship.  The peppery flavor you tasted may be suggestion or it may be
an unusual tomato gene surfacing.  Hollow stuffer tomatoes usually have very
little flavor--bland, but firm meat.

When I was a newspaper editor, an old fellow brought me corn he swore grew
in trees.  He said his mulberry trees had crossed with the corn in the
adjacent field.  What he has was smut.  The birds carried the spores into
the trees as they were fruiting.  I went out to the corn field and showed
the man that much of the corn was infected with smut due to unusually hot,
humid weather.  My point is that you should do some investigating on your
own.
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lowenfels" <jeff@gardener.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: [GWL] Need help

> I am sure lots of you have had similar experiences, but this one has me
> stumped:  A reader called and asked if it was possible to cross a pepper
and
> a tomato. I said I didn't think so.
>
> Today he came to my office with a tomato plant. On it were yellow
> peppers.......well, when I cut into one, it had the three hollow
"sections"
> and tasted like a cross between a tomato and a pepper. Very unusual. Each
> "Peppertom" had the characteristic shape of a pepper.
>
> The seeds came from one fruit he found last year on a plant grown in a
> greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes. The plants produced red tomatoes,
> this one was yellow. They all germinated this year and he has lots of
plants
> with the same strange fruit.
>
> Is this possible? A cross between a tomato and a bell pepper?  I have a
few
> pictures and will send them off line to those who might be interested.
>
> Any idea what is going on here?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff L
>
>
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