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Old May 19, 2010   #3
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Originally Posted by 333.okh View Post
Do I let them grow or pull them?

I had 7 types last year and must have missed fruit or the seeds were not killed off in compost.
If you have the room go for it. Every year i'd walk around my large tomato field and randomly dig up 10 volunteers and plant them elsewhere, just to see if I could ID what they were as to variety. Sometimes I could, sometimes not, but it was just a fun game for me and I had the room to grow those volunteers.

Of couse I never saved seeds from them, even when I thought I knew what they were b'c there was always a chance I was wrong. I only save seeds from fruits of labelled plants that conform to the traits that those varieties should have.
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