Is Breeding Tomatoes A Thing?

Moyra discovered at her hair dresser today that people breed tomatoes and that it's a delicate process. So, they put it out to the Gold Coast to find out if this is a thing?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get a time with boy and.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Not tomatoes. There's always something to talk about at the hairdressers.
Every time I come back from getting my hair done,
which is roughly every seven weeks, I have an interesting
topic of conversation that came up.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Every time you come back from that place, you either
the girls are talking about this and I go there, Yeah,
one day I want like, if it's not, we'll come
with you.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Me and Ben get your nails done as well.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Be hilarious.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, today I was heard about ninety eight year old Gordon,
who lives in the one of the estates that one
of the ladies lives in, and apparently he's been teaching Karen,
who is the lady in question, how to breed tomatoes,
what with the water and sunlight breed them. Apparently there's

(00:54):
a lack of bees in the world. Is that I
didn't realize that there was such a lack of bees.
But you can actually breed your own tomato. I thought,
A that was that tickled my fancy because a we
worked for Hot Tomato, and she did actually call it
tickling at tomato, which made me laugh a great deal.
But apparently this is a thing because there's there's no

(01:14):
bees around to take the pollen from one to the other.
They actually have to do it tomatoes. Great, well, apparently
that's how you.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So how would you get how do they do it?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Mara? You take the pollen from one tomato flower, Yeah,
called the father.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Let's take it to Daddy.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Continue using it to pollinate a flour from a completely
different tomato variety, the mother. Oh, you can combine the
traits of both into a new tomato. And I have
to admit something. I thought this is how pumpkins were made.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I thought the stork's broke.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I actually asked my dad once that if he was
breeding tomato breeding pumpkins, yes, because I thought this was
a thing. I didn't know this is the thing.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
But do you not look at me when you're don't
want to look at anyone? Keep talking about your tomatoes
and your pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Look, I didn't know that you had to tickle.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Tomorrow, seduce them a little bit of one cheese patter to.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Get the pollen to get the pot. So the pot
the bees on around to get the pollen to go
from one to the other. So therefore you have to
do it yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You have to collect the pollen and then collect the
pollen and then put it in.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't know. Can a gardener please call me and
tell me what's going on or a therapist either way,
actually in that order, Yeah, gardener, they're a therapist. Ali
from Mordsland heard about tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, I don't really bother with them, but I do
my own flowers. So I'm trying to do hippie astros.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
And David what was the other one?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
The first one? Hippie astros hippie as Okay, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
A nice pick me looking, pretty flower. And you can
make all different ones if you. If yourself pollinate, So
this is a thing. Yeah, but you should google Don
birth from way back when helping to pollinate Monsteria.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, let's do it on most compute. How do you pollinate?
And then put Don Burt?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, thank you, Monsteria and John Birt and you'll have
a gel because it's a rather pallid type.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, thank you. I thought you asked for more.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I know, I know it's broken. My computer is broken.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Can't google Julie from Ormo. Do you think this was
the thing pollinating tomatoes?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, I've got no idea, but they've just appeared in
my gardens from nowhere, okay.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So no way to pollinated. And then they were just there.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I don't know where that comes from.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
My worn there and.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
There they are, okay. Would a bird there lots of
birds in the area, so it would a bird have
taken a tomato seed puted it into your yard and
then it grew that way?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Maybe I reckon it was Gordon year old had a
ninety eight old called Gordon.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Is there called Gordon around him? Just check it out
your tomatoes, not that I'm aware of. No, keep an
eye at mate. He's a stealthy little guy.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Put sense of lights on. He won't be moving fast exactly.
You'll catch him.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
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