It is possible to grow fruit producing plants in my south facing garden window in my kitchen this winter?

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Linda, without supplemental lighting the plants just won't have enough sunlight to grow well with just a south facing exposure. Just my opinion.

Besides, the on the vine varieties sold in the store are hybrids, so while you'd get a nice plant you can't be sure that you'd get the same fruits as you bought from the store.

Seeds inside tomatoes do sometimes germinate and in the case of store bought ones it usually means that they've been stored at a low temperature for quite a while during shipping, etc..

Of course you let them sit quite a while in your home as well. ( smile)

If you want to go ahead you can, but I just don't think you're going to have much luck without supplemental lighting, and for most folks who grow tomatoes indoors that means halide lights which are quite expensive, not just the normal lighting fixtures one uses in a light stand to raise seedlings before they're set out.

Carolyn

My father is doing this for the last 30 years
I will do this this comming spring ,will post results
O btw my father is doing this on the kitchen window no other light supplementation (only natural light)
Poland has even less light because Poland is more up North

When I first saw this thread title the first thing to come to mind was this:

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I've been growing tomatoes for years and this totally freaks me out. I cannot imagine cutting into a tomato and finding THAT. How OLD does a tomato need to be for this to happen??? I mean it makes perfect sense - a tomato was designed to spread and grow it's seed... Totally freaks me out... like cutting it open and something GROWING in there - like bugs or something... Brrrrr! It's alive! It's alive! Thanks for the picture though...

How OLD does a tomato need to be for this to happen???

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Tom, age is not the only factor.

Most folks find germinated seeds in fruits that have been shipped long distinces and stored under cool conditions and sold in stores.

But for sure they can appear in home grown tomatoes as well, as Mark has just pictured.

Soft fleshed varieties such as the gold/red bicolors are often mentioned as being particularly susceptible to interior seed germination.

Carolyn

Brrrrr! Gives me the creeps!

I had the same thing early this year and asked the same question. I planted the seeds but they did not survive. Would have been interesting to see what came up, but oh, well, we had too many plants as it was.

I agree with tom8olvr. It is GROSS to me, too. I've seen it a few times in purchased tomatoes. It was hard to eat those tomatoes even with the seeds removed.

Naturegirl...who handles frogs, toads and creepy crawlies often...and can squish garden pests without flinching....yet these sprouted seeds freak me out. Strange how our minds work.

Alright then... I'm not the only one wigged out by this. That has never happened to me - I've had them rot on the counter, leak all over, I've even got black ones this year.. (see what's up with that) but I'm sorry, that would freak me right out!

those germinating seeds looked like gross little worms from here! For now on Im looking at every tomato under a microscope befor I eat it!

My parents cut up a spaghetti squash in august and found 3 seedlings each with stems about an inch long. I planted them. One of them hung in there. I have a vine 3 feet long now, lots of blooms, and one squash, 4 inches long. Cool!