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| I have excellent soil, 7 ph. I started my tomatoes from seed indoors. They were healthy when planted. They grew fast, dark green leaves, strong thick stems and 8' tall. I have never seen tomato plants so enormous. I could see nothing wrong. Lots of tomatoes. When I picked the tomatoes, they were 90% wooden core with a tiny bit of red flesh surrounding it. The little bit of tomato tasted good but very little to eat. I had 7 different types, some heirloom, some hybrids. A few determinate and a few indeterminate. They all had the same wooden centers. (Except for the cherry tomatoes were perfect.) There was a lot of rain. I rarely had to water. My garden is on a slight hill so no standing water. I used weed block fabric. I added no fertilizer or bug sprays. I did not have any insect problems. The very little bit of information I found says I used too much fertilizer but fertilizer has never been put in my garden. My egg plants, peppers, okra, pumpkins, cucumbers, squash all grew great. Please, help. |
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- Posted by Holycowgirl (My Page) on Thu, Nov 7, 13 at 0:17
| Hi. I found this impressively broad website looking for an answer to, essentially, your question, though several months have passed since your May post..it's early November 2013. I live on the central coast, CA. I also live near Safeway, go daily. I love tomatoes, eat them every day. I sure wish they tasted like they used to, I'm always filled with hope. Recently some very large gorgeous tomatoes appeared in Safeway produce department among the regulars. Large, round, great genuine color, well-defined round ridges on top like a painting done of them 100 years ago. I bought two. They were tasty. A real taste, a good tomato. I repeated that three days running now. And without fail they ALL HAVE WOODEN CORES! It's not just a pluck-offable top green stem. It's wood pulp and extends inside the tomato a bit, enough so you find it by surprise and have to spit it out as if you'd found a pit. The tomatoes have stickers which read KALIROY (Mexico) with a bar code. I looked up the brand. KALIROY (Mexican company headed by Eduardo De La Vega) has offices in Nogales, Arizona. They just signed a partnership with PACIFIC TOMATO GROWERS LTD in Palmetto, Florida. They launched in October. They grow open field vine-ripe, greenhouse, vine-ripe Romas, and vine-ripe grape. Their fields and greenhouses are in Guadalajara and Culican, Mexico. I don't know about the other varieties but these big round beauties ALL HAVE WOODEN CORES!! Both the Florida and Mexican companies are big enterprises around a long time. I have no idea about either of them or why the wooden cores are popping up in their tomatoes and nobody on the internet seems to have addressed this but you. So there it is. If you find out more, I hope you'll post it. And maybe writing to the company would provide info. I wondered if it was because of some structure they were grown on, or stretched up something, or a hybrid, or forced for production that alters the stem. No idea. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Hawks Perch - Expressionist Art
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