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Sun, Jul 21, 13 at 7:41
| I am wondering if any of you tomato experts know why the fruiting is staggered on most tomatoes. What I mean is, when a blossom cluster grows - why do usually the tomatoes actually form at such different times? It doesnt seem to happen on all plants. On my Kosovo, all of the tomatoes in a cluster form about the same time and are about the same size, but on some of the other plants, There can be a two week difference - or more, from when the first blossom fruits to when the last one does. So that there is a tennis ball sized tomato in the same cluster as a golf ball sized one. It just seems odd to me since the blossoms themselves all emerge about the same time. Just curious. |
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| Yea ! Why? Interesting observation. I see pictures in catalogs, showing a whole cluster of ripe tomatoes... how does that happen ? On some of mine (cherry type) the one near the node is almost full size there are flowers on the tip of cluster. |
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| bumping this before it runs off the page. Anyone know? |
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| Now that nobody is answering, I think that it is a plant's habit, mostly I see in SMALL FRUITED tomatoes. On others which have much smaller clusters, it is not that severe. Even within the SMALL FRUITED ones, there seems to be marked difference. ONE thing is obvious to me, that a tomato plant cannot simultaneously support 50 fruits(or more). But it is somehow very greedy to produce a lot, even cannot support. They do not believe in Planned Parenthood. lol. |
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