TomaTOES!!!

So i had a tomato sitting on a shelf above my sink for about a month.

I looked today after ignoring it for the past month, and sprouts were everywhere on it!
The seeds germinated and a number of them were even busting out of the skin!

So, i opened up the tomato and carefully scrapped as many sprouts as i could, many of them ripped, some came out in good condition, they had little root systems and green leaves and the whole package! There were probably about 50 sprouts in this one store bought tomato easy.

So, after picking them out i washed them under the sink to get the slimy tomato juice off them and put them in soil in my home made humidity dome.

Anyone have any experiences similar to this?

Red Robin said:

That is nasty sounding.

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lol. the tomato was still nice and red, no mold, very healthy. And the sprouts were very nice as well, the ones poking out had very vibrant green leaves. Small, but definitely healthy.

Im hoping the sprouts take and do very well! i should have taken pictures of this i heard its fairly rare.

LOL red robin are you baked? That was just what I was visualizing in my head. Holy shit! Anyone remember this show? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes:_The_Animated_Series However, thats awesome! Plant those suckers and hope they don't go Killer on you

I took this pic yesterday, it is also a tomato plant that just came up by itself.

The tomato plants I physicaly planted are still babies... got some oxheart and some cherry toms, no idea what the type in the pic is, its clearly a smallish strain, but too large for cocktail.

ANC said:

I took this pic yesterday, it is also a tomato plant that just came up by itself.

The tomato plants I physicaly planted are still babies... got some oxheart and some cherry toms, no idea what the type in the pic is, its clearly a smallish strain, but too large for cocktail.

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is that plant from a spout that germinated within a tomato or from a tomato in the ground from a compost pile or something of the nature?

regardless, awesome the nice picture gives something to hopefully look forward to

It just sprouted outside in my backyard, not close to where the bins are, must either be a tomato slice someone flipped over the wall (you know how people are when they think noone is looking), or maybe dropped by a bird or something.
Either way, the thing is sick with all the tomatoes, I have never been able to get that kind of yield from one I planted intentionaly....

P.S, for a cheap tomato cage, buy like 4' of the wire fencing with the big holes (its like $3 a meter here), get the 5 or 6' high type, twist ends together to form a long tube, and stake that into the ground, or secure from top with rope, so it won't fall over or compress as it starts carrying weight.

ANC said:

It just sprouted outside in my backyard, not close to where the bins are, must either be a tomato slice someone flipped over the wall (you know how people are when they think noone is looking), or maybe dropped by a bird or something.
Either way, the thing is sick with all the tomatoes, I have never been able to get that kind of yield from one I planted intentionaly....

P.S, for a cheap tomato cage, buy like 4' of the wire fencing with the big holes (its like $3 a meter here), get the 5 or 6' high type, twist ends together to form a long tube, and stake that into the ground, or secure from top with rope, so it won't fall over or compress as it starts carrying weight.

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okay man.
i have my ~20 sprouts in the humidity dome, when i went to mist them this morning i saw atleast that were standing at attention straight vertically.

I also ripped a few of the tiny root systems off on accident of a bunch of them trying to seperate them, so i took some rooting powder and am trying it on a sprout lol.

These will be grown in my apt btw.

Good luck man, a fully ripened tomato kicks those store tomatoes that are picked green and gassed to turn then red by miles.

ANC said:

Good luck man, a fully ripened tomato kicks those store tomatoes that are picked green and gassed to turn then red by miles.

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Ah very good point something i forgot about. my step father has been driving independent trucking for years now and he told me about stuff like that.

God knows what the industries put in the shit they sell us..

Well i was hunting with my nephew and skinning/boning deer and didnt make it back to the house to spray the sprouts with water for a whole day and they wilted and died

shit piss.

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probably not the righ time of year over there anyway, but I'd give a couple of seedlings from the nursery a shot, they are normaly big enough to be quite resilient.
It gets very hot here, in the afternoon he whole plant wilts but when it cools down a bit , it pulls its shit together.
I watched in amazement this morning how fast a cannabis plant lifts its head after watering.

yeah i have a few girls that look really sickly when they get dry, then i watch them rejuvenate very quickly after a watering, its neat.

Heheh , I counted yesterday, it has 14 tomatoes on now... fuggin freak plant, and it keeps growing

thats awesome.
I made some venison tenderloins with green peppers, onions, and mushrooms yesterday.

Point being, im drying some green pepper seeds and im going to try germinating them since my tomato sprouts perished.

I should have never gotten my thumb green, i'm developing plant mania, lol.

Man, the waiting is killing me.

i'm glad i found this thread!!! (i wish i had found it earlier)

i had a really similar experience.. found a sprouting seed on a kitchen rag (back in october). i planted it, then continued transplanting it into bigger pots until i realized it was a tomato plant! now, like 3 and a half months later, it is a MONSTER. i had it in the same closet as my weed plants until a few days ago, but i switched my ladies to 12/12 so i took tomato out to give it a longer on cycle... i hear it helps (?)

anyway, long story short, here are a couple pics from october and from a few weeks ago...



little yellow flowers have been coming and dying for the past 2-3 weeks, but after giving it better ventilation and molasses yesterday, i found the first little tomato today!! super cool.

you guys have any advice on how to get decent sized tomatos indoors? i'm giving it 4 x 24-watt cfls (2700k).

much appreciated.

homer

I think you will find the major problems to be keeping enough nutrients, especialy P in during fruiting, when it runs out of P, you get blossom end rot, which is basicaly a rotten tip on your tomatoes.
I suggest adding wood ash or bone meal.

Thanks for the advice ANC. I will start feeding it some bloom nutes high in P.

homer

I forgot to add it needs the calcium from the bonemeal. I suppose lots of crushed eggshell in your soil could work too...

thanks again anc. do molasses provide enough calcium? i've been feeding it molasses along with veg & bloom nutes the last couple days and i *think* it's helping.

also, do you know if there's any signs of a tomato plant that tell you whether it's determinate or indeterminate? the first two tomatoes are growing, ever so slowly, and they look heirloom-esque, for what that's worth... any clue?



lastly, i think the plant needs a transplant... it's been in a 2-gallon pot for the last month, but maybe the roots need more room.