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| What do you think? Keep it and see what it produces? or snip it off? The variety is "Homely Homer," a first year experiment for me. |
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| Your choice. I have never grown that variety so could only guess at what it will look like. But based on my experiences with them I usually cut them off. The resulting fruit is so fused, cat-faced, ugly and full of multiple cores that no one wants to look at them much less eat it. So I prefer to let the other normal blooms in the cluster develop instead. Or keep it and enter it in the Ugliest Tomato contest. :) Dave |
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| Sometimes those early big ones abort anyway. IMO, I might just wait a bit and see what happens. You can always snip it later. |
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| I had one once years ago. I think it was on a Cherokee purple or Black Krem. It did not make it. They are usually the very first bloom and some stays dwarf and cat faced. Does anybody know what causes it ? |
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| Fused blooms are one of the physiological responses of tomato plants to cool air temps. Wet, cool air appears to increase the fusing. It can happen with any variety but some varieties appear to be more susceptible. Once the blooms fuse and the cool air exposure continues to exist when the fused bloom is pollinated, catfacing of the fruit results. Dave |
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| I just noticed that you said the variety is 'Homely' Homer. That might be the case with that one :-) |
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| :-) It is one of the "lumpy" heirloom varieties. Dave's suggestion for an ugliest tomato contest may well be merited if it does bear fruit. I think I'll keep it, at least for now. Nothing lost if I do, and interesting to see what develops. |
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