Re: Need help

**"Tom Ogren" t*@earthlink.net**

I expect a natural cross between peppers and tomatoes is a lot more likely
than a cross between corn and mulberries!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Need help

> 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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