tomato volunteer plants

by stephanie
(Cincinnati Ohio)

can a volunteer tomato plant bear fruit?

Doug says that if it starts growing early enough in the season to produce flowers - and those flowers have enough time to set and ripen fruit - yes.

If it starts late in the season - no.

But the volunteer started from a seed - and there is no reason why a seed won't produce fruit if given the right conditions.

Having said that - the fruit it does produce may not resemble the parent if the parent was a hybrid. So there's no telling what you'll have when it does give you fruit.

But it's a fun thing to do! Let us know how it turns out.