03-24-2009, 10:08 PM
Quote:TIA....I don't agree with that. Ever try a wild strawberry. Much tastier.
When you grow plants and select the best tasting ones to plant again you will come up with a better plant, that's how the tomato we know today was created. Yes I've tasted the wild straw berries and I think I have tasted hybrid berries that were as good or better.
I understand that hybrids may sacrifice one thing to gain another but I've grown a hell of a lot of different kinds of hybrids and quite frankly I don't know how some of then could have possibly tasted any better or had better meat , shape , size or amount of fruit.
Trust me on this I grew up in the tomato as we know it capital, the original tomatoes like many other fruits or vegetables SUCKED before humans started cultivating them and probably tasted like crap.
My wife used to volunteer for the Central point gleaners and the highs school would donate a lot of plants to them, eventually after no one would take them I would end up with them.
I would always get the weirdest oddball varieties because the ones that were left were the ones people had never heard of
Here something weird, the volunteer tomatoes that grow from my hybrids are almost always cherry tomatoes :shock: :shock: what's up with that?