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Thread: Black Tomatos ??? (ID wanted)
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8th January 2009, 07:58 PM #1
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Black Tomatos ??? (ID wanted)
I'm a vegie-growing newbie, having moved to a new house a year ago, and inherited a garden mostly producing roma (I think) tomatoes.
Since then, we've experimented with various vegies, and inside the cucumber trellis a plant has grown which I thought was a tomato (mainly from the smell of the leaves). It's started producing fruit ?? and I've done some googling for "black tomato", but all the pics have been far from black, usually mostly red-ish.
At the moment they are still very small, but I'd like to know whether it's worth trying to fight off the current bug assault.
Anyway, here are my pics - do you think it's a tomato???
Cheers,
Andrew
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8th January 2009, 08:18 PM #2
Deadly Nightshade ?, its in the same family though all the berries I've seen are very small
Theres a fancy seed merchant on ebay who may be helpful, I've forgotten his id.
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8th January 2009, 08:24 PM #3
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8th January 2009, 08:33 PM #4
looks like deadly nightshade to me
Cheers
Michael
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8th January 2009, 09:10 PM #5
Me too.
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8th January 2009, 09:20 PM #6
Me three. Just very big. You must have good s&$% at your place.
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8th January 2009, 10:00 PM #7
except the leaves don't look like nightshade, let then grow and see what they look like fully matured. Have a good look at the link I posted earlier
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8th January 2009, 11:53 PM #8
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Keep some/all the seed. If they turn out to be tomatoes then you may have a new cultivar, which could be flogged to one of the big companies for a few bucks (and they will make squillions) or given to friends/neighbours for free. I can see it now "Andrew's Black Tomato".
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9th January 2009, 12:07 AM #9
I take back what I said. I think it is a huckleberry
http://www.readytogrow.co.uk/item_pa...um_nigrum.html
But it's what I had known as deadly nightshade, apparently that is really atropa belladona, while this is solanum nigrum (?) and apparently it is edible(?)
CHeers
Michael
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9th January 2009, 08:03 AM #10
Deadly Nightshade doesn't grow in Oz!
Jack the Lad.
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9th January 2009, 11:34 AM #11
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Look like Russian tomatoes to me
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9th January 2009, 03:25 PM #12
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Not sure about that...
http://www.anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/S-poison.html
Cheers,
Andrew
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9th January 2009, 03:50 PM #13
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9th January 2009, 10:48 PM #14
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f you look at the diggers site, http://www.diggers.com.au/ they have black tomato seed
you could email them a question and have yours identified from the photo I believe
Doug
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