Hello there, everyone. Just back from a three-week break back home in Kenya. I’ll blog about the mother-in-law and her attempts at diversification in the Kenya highlands in the next day or two…
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Hello there, everyone. Just back from a three-week break back home in Kenya. I’ll blog about the mother-in-law and her attempts at diversification in the Kenya highlands in the next day or two…
I was surprised to find tree tomato juice on sale in a Nairobi restaurant a couple of years ago. Would be interested to hear how tree tomatoes got from the Andes to Kenya.
Bohs (1989) has the answer to my question.
Seeds had come to the Cape from the Botanical Gardens in Jamaica. How tree tomato reached Jamaica is not clear, but it was well established there by 1884 (but, interestingly, is seldom seen there today).
Lots more information and a map showing dispersal routes around the world:
Bohs, L (1989) Ethnobotany of the Genus Cyphomandra (Solanaceae). Economic Botany, 43(2), 1989, pp. 143-163
We also have tree tomatoes in Papua New Guinea. There is a jam company in the Highlands that makes a professional quality (albeit with too much pectin) mixed ‘wild fruits jam’ containing tree tomato. Raw fruit are on sale in the major markets here in the lowlands, but they are very bitter and acidic, even when you remove the skin.
I am currently a passion farmer. please advice on how to plant tree tomatoe, I am interested.
passion farmer, i throw away lots of passion seeds, let me know if u would like, i also want to plant them, i need practical advice, i think tree tomato came from south america
can i get the grandmas contacts
Hi, are you a tree tomato farmer?
No, but my mother-in-law has a few.
Hi, My mom grows tree tomatoes commercially in Nyahururu – Kenya. Someone please advise on market/juice processing factories?
Thanks.
Lucy,
I am on the process trying to start tree tomatoes growing on a three acres piece of land at Nyahururu town.Where is mums farm? and what type is she growing?
Joseph.
Regards.
Luigi Guarino,
Could you please help us with Mr.Muiruri’s contacts.
Or else you can pass over my No. to the grandma to pass over to Mr.Muiruri.
Joseph.
0721311391.