A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Food Garden Forum The Tomato Forum Growing Kumato tomatoes, an interesting find!

Last year I saw Kumato tomatoes sold at the supermarket, they are purple-orange sometimes with green patches and are rather sweet tasting. It said the company who produced these dont sell seeds and only special people get the priveledge of growing them.

I took some seeds from the fresh tomatoes, and grew plants from them this year.
This is what the "parent" tomatoes looked like.


I grew mine, and noticed they are smaller, and vary in color from pure purple, to half red/purple, to fully red! Nowhere in the companies description do they say they are supposed to be red! So in fact they vary in color, and each color has it's own taste. Red are most tart, purple are most sweet. I found this interesting.

will you save seed from the purple one????

actually it might be fun to also save seed from the red one to see what its off-spring grew to be........

I'm going to do that next year and see if they will produce pure offspring of the same color, or if they both have variable offspring. If they still vary, then my conclusion is the company only sells the purple ones, and discards the red ones.

you will keep us posted right???
I will want to hear how it came out

You'll have to wait till next Summer.

Yes I know--but I am a patient person........

They cross I was told

They're really cute and unique
At first I thought they're some thing like gold or wood tomatoes :">

I read up on them and they originally were wild tomatoes from the Galapagos crossed with another type of tomato.

Thats interesting I look forward to hearing more about these tomatoes. I would like sweeter tomatoes.