Massive fused flowers

[ScottinAtlanta]

This is a Dwarf Sweet Scarlett. What causes this weird mutant flowering?

[StrongPlant]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

This is a Dwarf Sweet Scarlett. What causes this weird mutant flowering?

Leave it,that's gonna be one ugly and huge tomato.Perfect for the ugly tomatoes thread haha

There's already a recent thread on fused blossoms:

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=44778

[Ann123]

What causes it? They say it often happens to the first flowers when the weather is still cold.

[Worth1]

Pinch the stinking thing off, it wont be fit to eat anyway.
Worth

[oakley]

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.

[Gardeneer]

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.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

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.

You shouldn't find it as much on CP where you live now compared to Seattle.
I only got it on them at the very first flowering early in the cool damp spring and that is it.