strange toms

i have some spanish toms in the polly, and some of them are somewhat strange, they look like they are growing more toms from the base




i have used these seeds before but never had this problem before, any ideas
cheers
dawn

 

They do that now and again

 

No idea why it does that, but i have seen it a few times myself.

 

Fused blooms can cause a tomato to grow like that underneath, and is very often accompanied by deep, vertical creasing/ribbing above.

 

Here's a few of my toms that grew from fused blooms:







A fused bloom:

 

OMG scrungee,,,, those toms are HUGE,
yes i have had them with the deep, vertical creasing/ribbing
how do you stop fused blooms ??

 

I don't know, because those toms of mine are growing on a variety reknowned for producing lots of fused blooms which can produce the biggest tomatoes (what I'm going for) and I'm only letting those blooms(and not 'normal' ones) form into tomatoes - I've got a couple of dozen or so toms like that, some of which are really distorted from top to bottom and are known as 'uglies'.

So I cut any 'normal' blooms off, leaving only the fused ones, because what I'm after is not single toms like in the pics above that will only weigh around 2 lbs each, but giant ugly 'siamese triplet' tomatoes formed where at least 3 fused flowers have produced into a giant fused tomato weighing around 6 lbs and looking like this one (this is what I meant about deep ribbing/creasing):



There could be other factors that cause toms to produce deformed blossom ends, but every single one of mine from a fused bloom has them, and I assume it's because only one part of a fused bloom has formed into a tomato and the deformity is caused other bits that didn't come to anything.

 

6lb for a tomato, now that is impressive,
i have defo had some of the deep ribbing/creasing, where the stalk has dissapeared into the creases,
is there any reason why you go for the "uglies" they are well strange

i stopped growing carrots coz they were always deformed
you know on the film,, pirates of the caribeen,, davy jones who played the organ,,, his tenticles,,,, that was like my carrots

 

I usually get toms like that from "Marmande",

mostly its the first flower from each truss, its usually a large double flower rather than the more normal looking tom flower.

"Super marmande" dont seem to do it, I guess its a little bit more refined:D

 

I once had a Delicious tomato plant that had a triple tomato that had a seperate stem attached to each section.

 

6lb of tomato salad. That might even exceed my capacity.

Couldn't you have pretended they were an exotic carrot variety? What did they taste like?

 

Just think of the tomato sauce you could bottle.

 

I wish my tomatoes looked like those monsters!