Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Posts: 2,593
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This is a Dwarf Sweet Scarlett. What causes this weird mutant flowering?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Europe/Serbia-Belgrade
Posts: 151
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There's already a recent thread on fused blossoms: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=44778 |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Belgium
Posts: 240
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What causes it? They say it often happens to the first flowers when the weather is still cold.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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Pinch the stinking thing off, it wont be fit to eat anyway.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
Posts: 2,303
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Abort, pinch off, or if curious leave one or two. New gardeners find it interesting but usually just
an ugly tom. Folds and hard to get much fruit from it. I get them in September-Oct as well when the the climate cools and miss a few...at that point i'm done. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,916
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Mostly due to cool weather early in the season.
But there are varieties prone to have mega blooms. For example , a lot of people grow Big Zac for its mega blooms that produce huge tomatoes. In my experience Cherokee purple also produced a lot of mega blooms. You won't see them on hybrids like Big Beef, Better Boy , etc.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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I only got it on them at the very first flowering early in the cool damp spring and that is it. |
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