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> they were all working towards breeding flavor back into tomatoes This surprised me. Every year my FIL plants a little green house full of tomatoes and they t
by barbazoo 5y ago
> they were all working towards breeding flavor back into tomatoes
This surprised me. Every year my FIL plants a little green house full of tomatoes and they taste delicious, much much better than the ones you buy at a store. Much more fleshy and flavorful. All he uses are seeds from the gardening store.
So what are they developing I wonder, tomatoes that develop flavor even in the industrialized high speed growth environment they make them in now?
- 01100011 5y agoThe seeds from the gardening store are probably not the varieties being grown commercially. The seeds or starters sold at the gardening store are an easy step up from commercial plants, regardless of how you grow them. If you've ever seen a truck full of tomatoes, you can see why commercial growers grow the tomatoes they do. They need firm rocks that can survive being covered by several feet of other tomatoes. They pick them early and choose varieties that are optimized for disease resistance, firmness, etc.
- barbazoo 5y agoThanks. That makes sense. Too bad the property that gets lost completely in the process is flavor.
- nathan_jr 5y agoCommercial growers have definitely diluted the flavor expectation. There really is no comparison between tomatoes sold at mass market and what can be grown at home. I hope to see AppHarvest succeed at scale. https://www.appharvest.com/veggies/ https://www.appharvest.com/veggies/
- aliswe 5y agoTasteless as some varities are, they earned the nickname "wasserbomben" (i think i got that right) in germany some time ago, meaning "water bombs"