Tomato Growing Competition 2012

Loli,
it's SO big, it has blocked out the "Like" button at the bottom,!!!!

 

Is that 6.8 pounds or 6.8 kilos?

 

My first lots of blooms failed to set fruit, the next ones set fruit but they failed to grow to any size, but the last lot now appear to be making some headway:

Mortgage Lifter from fused blossom:



A Phil's Fanatastic from a fused blossom:

 

Blimey...nice one Scrungee looking good....

 

I could have sworn my biggest tom was starting to ripen last night, maybe I'm getting paranoid? After checking this morning, all is well, it's still green but growing very slowly!

I'd estimate it's well over 1lb in weight, I'll try and get a piccie tomorrow

 

Piccies as promised

Big Boy



And again



And a rather unusual looking Delicious!

 

Not that big, but an interesting shape:

 

Seems to have hemorrhoids scrungee, you can get cream for it!

 

I tried that one last year with this tomato, but nobody seemed to get the joke

But getting get to big toms, I've now started measuring girths rather than max diameters:



So no quite at the 1lb mark according to the guidelines I've checked out in the past (originally posted above).



Being such a rubbish year, I'm now going to start feeding anything other than 'contenders' with tomato feed to bring them on for seed saving. It doesn't matter whether the seeds are saved from either a giant or small tomato from the same plant - the genetics are the same.

 

My main contender...so far

 

Yes John got the rigging up

 

No John, but I'm the official Sponser

 

I'm supporting mine.

 

I don't think my big toms will be getting much bigger as I've now discovered blight in their polytunnel.