Why do homegrown tomatoes have thicker skins than store bought ones?
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It's probably the variety of tomato that you have grown at home is different than the tomato that you are purchasing. You would have no way of knowing since store tomatoes rarely advertise their exact variety.
Because it ripened on the vine. They taste better too.
Could be because their not sprayed with a bunch of chemicals.
Mine don't. Maybe its the variety you are growing. Also I found a trick. Bury an old tomato from the store. delicious!
Here is the deal.you are growing a hybrid, it has been bread to resist disease and pests...plus it is getting a natural growth environment. if you don't like the thicker skins try an Heirloom variety, maybe rutgers or cherokee purple. They will taste better too.
Store bought tomatoes are a hybrid so that the skins are different from homegrown so that they can be picked by machinery so they don't split or bust when picked. That is why the skins are different.
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