Pregnant Tomato?
This can happen to you too, if you keep a tomato too long on the counter. My wife cut one open and bingo! The seeds started to hatch!
What looked like a perfectly fine tomato, soon proved that was in fact that it was a pregnant tomato with all these seeds starting to germinate inside of it!
I wonder what would have happened if we would have left it uncut!
Curious thing…
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November 19th, 2008 21:19
Curious indeed! I have never seen the like… I imagine you could have just planted the thing and let it grow?
November 20th, 2008 07:55
Sadly, if left, it probably would have rotted. Thanks for including me in places you visit…you are so welcome anytime!!
November 20th, 2008 10:54
Oh, what a trip! This is kind of like when you cut into a bell pepper, and there are little peppers growing inside. But then, they are hollow, not wet like a tomato. I’ll bet you could plant those sprouts, though. I don’t see why they wouldn’t turn into little tomato plants!
+Jessie
a.k.a. The Hungry Mouse
November 20th, 2008 12:48
I have never seen or heard of such a thing. I wonder what tomato sprouts would taste like?
Thanks for sharing!
November 20th, 2008 13:48
Jessie: I had one of those bell peppers the other day! You feel like preserving it somehow and pop it on a display.
Sam: yes, although as Joan mentioned, it might have gone bad. But maybe just pull out the seedlings and replant?
Lanie: We actually ate it! Nothing different taste wise from a regular Tomato…
Thanks for the comments all!!
November 20th, 2008 21:20
That is the coolest thing! Did you eat it?
November 21st, 2008 09:42
I’ve seen that before, and it always startles me as if they were bugs or something ~ but tastes just fine!
November 21st, 2008 14:38
Maggie: We did eat it! Nothing unusual! Except some funny noises from our stomachs
Taste memory Girl: It sure looked like they were worms initially.
November 22nd, 2008 22:44
So did you get tummyache after having it? Oh dear, I really wonder if it’s poisonous. I know for potatoes, if they grow something on their skin, it’s poisonous and those cannot be consumed.
November 23rd, 2008 14:24
I’ve seen one of those before. Perhaps like you suggested, pull it out and plant?
November 24th, 2008 11:59
It tasted perfectly fine and there were no upset stomach after eating it.
I think we just threw those seedlings into the salad. It looked interesting.
thanks for the comments!
November 25th, 2008 11:26
I have never seen anything like that before! Glad you took the photo before eating it!
November 25th, 2008 12:35
Nicole: thanks for the comment! I took the photo before and… wrote my will – just in case