If this happens, please take digital pictures and send them to me!
Janna
lcordie@frontiernet.net wrote:
> It's funny this came up becasue I was going to write about this same
> thing. My sister bought a tomato at Target superstore and a few days
> later noticed the skin was "pimply". She cut it open and the seeds
> had indeed begun to sprout--she saved if for me and they had the
> little first roots and some even had green leaf buds just beginning.
> The whole tomato was full of sprouting seeds.
> L Cordie (hennepin)
> Beth R. Jarvis writes:
>
>> Hi All,
>> One of you e-mailed me saying you'd heard of tomato seeds sprouting
>> in fresh tomatoes. Sooo, I called Cindy Tong, our post harvest
>> physiologist and she confirmed that she's seen sprouted seeds in
>> freshly picked tomatoes. Off the top of her head, she thinks it's
>> caused by something physiological--heat, drought, whatever.
>> So, I stand corrected. I had been misinformed. It's something I'm
>> going to investigate in a few days as I know I've found spouted seeds
>> in winter tomatoes that sat in a bowl a long time.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Beth
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