growth tips forming from tomato clusters

RootLoops · July 4, 2014

i don't have a camera right now but i can post a pic of what im talking about later but it's pretty self explanatory. i've got at least one, or maybe two tomato plants that have flower clusters as usual but then at the end of the clusters a new growth tip is growing, looks just like a sucker but growing from the end of the cluster. is this something normal that i just haven't seen before(i've only grown a couple hundred tomato plants ever).

i have no idea what kind of tomato it is all my labels got lost between cats and kids

Father'sDaughter · July 4, 2014

I've had several plants do this over the years. Never really took note of which ones. This year I think I've seen it on two plants. I'll check to see which ones they are next time I go out to the garden.

jakebb · July 4, 2014

This is my first year and I've seen this on several plants so far, but mostly on my Black Krims. Something I found interesting was that these clusters were some of the first to appear and set fruit.

RootLoops · July 4, 2014

black krim is one of the ones that i had, could be it, if it is i'll know when the fruit is done it's the only blackish tomato i planted

Wil SC · July 4, 2014

I had something similar happen with Rutgers. The flower clusters started as normal but instead of flowers I got one dwarf leaf at each node. The cluster stem never grew larger like a sucker and the plants never produced flowers, just the sick little leaf in place. I blamed it on bad genetics (questionable seed source) but I really don't know the cause.

All the other tomatoes of different varities produced normally in the same bed, so I don't think it was enviromental.

RootLoops · July 4, 2014

these are setting fruit it's just a weird structure. the way this one is is like a branch, the cluster isn't so much a cluster as it is single blooms coming straight off the branch at random places, then at the end the branch ends up being a growth tip

Father'sDaughter · July 5, 2014

I rook a look today and so far this is happening on at least one flower/fruit cluster on Wes, Federle, Romeo and Work Release Paste. It looks like it may also be showing up on Speckled Roman and Tarasenko 6.

Santa Maria and Liguria are just growing leaves out of the end of several flower clusters (no growth tip ).

I thought it was just one or two until I started looking for it!

RootLoops · July 5, 2014

Cinnamon · July 6, 2014

This is my first year of 'serious' tomato growing.

My Zapotec pleated had stems growing from the tips of several trusses. I removed them. My Indigo rose is growing leaflets off the base of leaflet blades.

(Hmm, forgotten what that bit of a plant is called.)

July 4, 2014	#1
RootLoops Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: rienzi, ms Posts: 470	growth tips forming from tomato clusters i don't have a camera right now but i can post a pic of what im talking about later but it's pretty self explanatory. i've got at least one, or maybe two tomato plants that have flower clusters as usual but then at the end of the clusters a new growth tip is growing, looks just like a sucker but growing from the end of the cluster. is this something normal that i just haven't seen before(i've only grown a couple hundred tomato plants ever). i have no idea what kind of tomato it is all my labels got lost between cats and kids

July 4, 2014	#2
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,917	I've had several plants do this over the years. Never really took note of which ones. This year I think I've seen it on two plants. I'll check to see which ones they are next time I go out to the garden.

July 4, 2014	#3
jakebb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: South Dakota USDA Zone 4b Posts: 24	This is my first year and I've seen this on several plants so far, but mostly on my Black Krims. Something I found interesting was that these clusters were some of the first to appear and set fruit.

July 4, 2014	#5
Wil SC Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: SC Posts: 10	I had something similar happen with Rutgers. The flower clusters started as normal but instead of flowers I got one dwarf leaf at each node. The cluster stem never grew larger like a sucker and the plants never produced flowers, just the sick little leaf in place. I blamed it on bad genetics (questionable seed source) but I really don't know the cause. All the other tomatoes of different varities produced normally in the same bed, so I don't think it was enviromental.

July 5, 2014	#7
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,917	I rook a look today and so far this is happening on at least one flower/fruit cluster on Wes, Federle, Romeo and Work Release Paste. It looks like it may also be showing up on Speckled Roman and Tarasenko 6. Santa Maria and Liguria are just growing leaves out of the end of several flower clusters (no growth tip ). I thought it was just one or two until I started looking for it!

July 6, 2014	#9
Cinnamon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2014 Location: UK Posts: 18	This is my first year of 'serious' tomato growing. My Zapotec pleated had stems growing from the tips of several trusses. I removed them. My Indigo rose is growing leaflets off the base of leaflet blades. (Hmm, forgotten what that bit of a plant is called.)