Re: Re: [tomato] Looking for Texas Wild Tomato Seed
Doreen Howard (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:45:30 -0600
To put it plainly, Texas Wild is not a currant tomato. It is in another
family.
Doreen Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: Aulaire@aol.com <Aulaire@aol.com>
To: Tomato@GlobalGarden.com <Tomato@GlobalGarden.com>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [tomato] Looking for Texas Wild Tomato Seed
>Doreen--
>
>When I spoke of the currant tomatoes, I was responding to:
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>"I have been looking for Texas Wild tomato seed since this summer with no
>
>success. The only source I could find was Seed-Savers but you have to
become
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>a member. I have Matthew's Wild Cherry and Red Currant started."
>
>In this excerpt, robroy seems to distinguish between the Texas Wild and the
>Red Currant. I was speaking of the latter in terms of cross pollination
>problems, not of Texas Wild. If they are one and the same, it wasn't
clear,
>to say the least! But I thought I was clear in speaking specifically of
>currant tomatoes. Yet you wrote:
>"Texas Wild does NOT cross with other tomatoes. It is not like currant
>
>types--it's a different family." Puzzling, n'est pas?
>