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We sowed what we thought were red tomatoes (sub-arctic plenty, free with two other packets from a garden centre, T&M, red fruits on pack).  However they seem to ripening to yellow....... I can half recall reading something last year about free seed packs being mixed up but couldn't find it in a search.

We (think we) sowed...... sungold (ripe and orange) g delight (ripe and red) golden sunrise (ripe and yellow), hector (large and green right now so wait and see) and sub arctic plenty (v small, plum shaped, ripening to yellow, masses on each truss)


Am I bonkers?  Can red tomatoes be pollinated by yellow ones?  Have I mixed up my labels?

All planted outside in a bed, with tagetes and root veg......

Help please  ???

Got to be a seed mix-up, Nitty. I've not known cross-pollination to that degree.

Could well be...... just been browsing T&M website and the trusses we have look quite a bit like ildi.

Will try and get photos and post tomorrow.  See what others think?

I mixed up all my labels, and was only able to identify the Tamina, because of the leaves.  I'll be more careful next year (or so I say)  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Cross pollination should not come out in this years fruit but in the seeds taken from that fruit when planted.

Nora, if you think that there's a mistake in packaging, write to T&M....they'll send you vouchers. Trust me, I know these things ::) ;)

Sub Artic Plenty is a very early maturing tomato, out of those you have mentioned it shuld have been the first to bear ripe fruit. Does that help anything. XX Jeannine

i was extremely smugly careful with my labelling ;D
so i can id costoluto and tigerella....and the others?....
well the labels got mixed up!!!! ;D
so now i have lots of ripe tomatoes!


atomato is a tomato is a tomato!!!
and free seeds are free seeds!
enjoy 'em whatever they are!
kitty
xx

Too right Kitty..... our little yellow "sub-arctic-sun-ildi-golden delight" tomatoes are lovely and sweet!

Two pics here........ first is "Golden Sunrise" (as expected), second is the suspect pack.

Whatever they are they are great - much better than shop-bought

;D ;D

The look like Ildi which have a nice sharp taste to them

Yes they do don't they?

There's a reason for that........ and I don't think it's T&Ms fault!

Just been sorting through the seeds and checking the "suspect pack"... lo and behold, inside the SAP pack there is a "bonus" extra inner foil of...... yes, you guessed it...... ILDI!

DOH! ::)

Must have got put in there last year (when, I recall, we grew Ildi).


I'll blame the OH - he sowed them!  ;D