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From: jle@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Jer Eberhard)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Tomatoes from Space ?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:49:48 GMT
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> Here's a report from the 5th grade at the Bridge School, Lexington,
> Mass.  My son was presented with a pot containing a healthy looking
> plant at the end of school last summer ; it's been sitting on our deck
> since then, watered, fertilized once or twice. Several flowers, but
> none of them set, and NO TOMATOES !

> I'd be interested to know if anyone (or their kids) out there had any
> better luck.

Yes, most of the  tomatoe  seeds  germinated  and out paced the  control
seeds  for the  first 6-8  weeks.  Then both  control  and  space  seeds
continued  growing and produced  normal crops of tomatoes.  There was no
apparent  difference in haveing "spaced" the seeds or not.  I read about
it in Cappers (a national, homey newspaper from Topeka, KS).

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