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Old July 16, 2017   #3
Starlight
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Originally Posted by carolyn137 View Post
You should never ever save seeds from a fruit that resulted from a megabloom and here's why.

You have many blossoms in that megabloom and pollen from other nearby varieties can be transferred there by pollinators and can fertilize different blossoms,thus giving you one ugly fruit that has who knows what in terms of seeds in it.

In my experience many varieties form megablooms early in the season,especially the large pink PL varieties and then that stops and only single blossoms form.

Genetics?

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+...&bih=788&dpr=1

And Julia from PA says

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/...?b=33&p=509534

Carolyn
Many..many thanks Carolyn. I'm so glad I asked. I sure didn't want to mix the two and give folks some odd producing seed.

Thanks for the links too. The one from Pa_ Julie I see listed Mega Marv as one of those that does throw the megablooms. My megabloom Mega Marv weighed in at 14 ounces. Biggest tomato I ever held in my life. Besides one of the Mega Marv had one of the Dixie Golden Giant be a megabloom too.

After I spend a couple of days just enjoying looking at what I grew, I'll take them megabloom ones and make me some huge BLT's and just enjoy eating them seeds and all.

Thanks for the learning lesson.
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