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Re: Cross Pollination of multiple varieties of tomatoes

>Does any tomato expert know how much space typically needs to be kept
>between different tomato varieties to discourage cross pollination?  With
>bees in play, I think the word "prevent" may be too strong in almost any
>case.  But if 20 feet will eliminate most crossing, I'll shoot for that
>between the OP's and keep the hybrids near one another but farther away from
>*all* the heirlooms.
>
>--Janet
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>Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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Hi Janet,
I'm no expert, but from what I have read, the isolation distance is about
30 meters or more, depending how busy your bug buddies are. You could
cage the tomatoes, since they are self fertile, the don't need pollinators.
Or, this is what I do, you can cover the flowers themselves with a little
reemay bag before the flowers open. When the flowers do open, just shake
the bag a few times a day to help release the pollen. After you know that
you have fruit, you can take the bag off. Hope this helps.

:) Sheri

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