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Tomato X Eggplant and Tomato X Tomato

Posted by tammytomato (My Page) on
Mon, Aug 13, 07 at 0:21

Hello there. I have a couple of questions about tomato breeding:

1. Can a red beefsteak tomato cross well with an eggplant?
2. Can a white beefsteak tomato and a yellow pear tomato cross to make a white pear tomato?
3. What vegatables or fruits cross well with tomatoes?

Thanks in Advance,
TammyTomato


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RE: Tomato X Eggplant and Tomato X Tomato

1. not sure if tomato will cross with eggplant, but there is always a chance. I have a neighbor who planted eggplant right in with his japeno peppers and claimed the eggplant was too spicy to even eat, so who knows?

2. Yep, you can cross tomato to tomato, but you will have to do it by hand, mark flowers etc, and keep good records. Plant out enough seed and you could find what you are looking for.

3. In your trying to cross tomatoes with everything and anything, if you keep it to the solanacea family you will have better luck. That would include pepper, potato, jimson weed, tobacco, tomato, eggplant, mandrake, deadly nightshade and petunia. etc.

Here is a link that might be useful: solanaceae breeding


 
 

 

 


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