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Fruit Production
and Harvesting Hybrid Seed Production in Tomato |
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The number of hybrid fruits produced per plant
depends on the fruit size of the maternal parent. As a rule of
thumb, maintain the following: 30 fruits for large-fruited parent;
40 fruits for medium-fruited parent; and 50 or more fruits for
small-fruited parent. Hybrid fruits are easily recognized by their cut sepals. Remove the naturally-pollinated (non-hybrid) fruits from the female plants. This removal will prevent the accidental mixture of non-hybrid with hybrid fruits. Furthermore, non-hybrid fruits will steal nutrition away from the ripening hybrid fruits. |
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