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Planting Tomatoes?

If I plant F2 seedling tomato vines, how likely is it that they will bear fruit ?

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  • 7 years ago
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    Almost 100% likely that the plants will bear fruit but you will likely get different shapes, colors and sizes from plant to plant. I have done this many times and I have gotten up to 10 different kinds of tomatoes from such experiments

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    They may or they may not depending on the hybrid's parentage. The parents of some hybrids are bred to be sterile and this gene can be passed on via the hybrid to the next generation so a percentage of seeds saved from the F1 hybrid will bear no fruit.

    If this is not the case then the F2 can grow and be viable but the fruits will not be predictable and the plants may not have disease resistance, as the F2 will always revert to earlier pre-hybrid tomatoes that were cross pollinated to create the F1 hybrid with its special traits. The fruits of F2 will be different shapes, colours and flavours. This is why they tell you to root out any seedlings that appear the following year, but if you want to give it a go why not? Just be prepared that you won't know what you are getting and it may not be disease resistant.

  • 7 years ago

    Actually fairly likely. It's just that the flavor, size and quality of the fruit will be unknown. Might be great, might be 'meh'.

  • 7 years ago

    Fruit is not the problem, it is the quality of the fruit.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Good chance it will grow. vines produce plentiful with good soil

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