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NicolasGarcia · January 4, 2019

How do you have the certainty that kumato is a hybrid?
I have serious doubts that it really is a hybrid. It would not be the first time something is recorded as such to protect it more. When you plant a hybrid, a lot of diversity comes out and in this case they always look the same to the parents.

Supposedly f2 would not be all the tomatoes of the same size, color and others and in the case of kumato they are all the same, I have been planting until f4 of kumato and they are identical, the truth is that I have no experience in genetics and so on. It is only an observation.
There is a thread in a Spanish tomato forum that a person was willing to do a DNA analysis to prove that kumato is not a hybrid.

January 4, 2019	#6
NicolasGarcia Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: España Posts: 453	How do you have the certainty that kumato is a hybrid? I have serious doubts that it really is a hybrid. It would not be the first time something is recorded as such to protect it more. When you plant a hybrid, a lot of diversity comes out and in this case they always look the same to the parents. Supposedly f2 would not be all the tomatoes of the same size, color and others and in the case of kumato they are all the same, I have been planting until f4 of kumato and they are identical, the truth is that I have no experience in genetics and so on. It is only an observation. There is a thread in a Spanish tomato forum that a person was willing to do a DNA analysis to prove that kumato is not a hybrid. __________________ Look deeply into nature and then you will understand everything better.-Albert Einstein. Nico.