Anyone planted "Kumato" seeds from store-bought fruit before?

Anthony_Toronto · June 13, 2014

I've found that the kumato that I have bought have stored so well as to never ripen...stay 'crunchy' until they rot. On the flip side some of my heirloom varieties seem so delicate that I have to either eat them quickly (which I can't always do) or end up having to cut off the rotted part or having to toss them...Green Giant is one that I find particularly delicate (and particularly juicy and delicious). I assume growing out something with reputed storability and attempting to cross with something with reputed taste would probably yield something that was merely average on both counts.

June 13, 2014	#16
Anthony_Toronto Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Toronto Posts: 413	I've found that the kumato that I have bought have stored so well as to never ripen...stay 'crunchy' until they rot. On the flip side some of my heirloom varieties seem so delicate that I have to either eat them quickly (which I can't always do) or end up having to cut off the rotted part or having to toss them...Green Giant is one that I find particularly delicate (and particularly juicy and delicious). I assume growing out something with reputed storability and attempting to cross with something with reputed taste would probably yield something that was merely average on both counts.