Pointy tomatoes that shouldn't be pointy!?!

[RobinB]

I haven't gotten anything ripe on any of these yet. The names of the files say the name of the tomato, but they are:

Select Blue (many are round on the plant as well, nothing is very blue this year)
Haley's Purple Comet (many are round on the plant as well)
Shadow Boxing (all are pointy so far)
Sun Gold (new seeds from Johnny's this year, all are pointy so far on two plants)
Vince P1 (all are pointy so far, but I have three plants, only one with fruit)

It's been really HOT here, which I realize is probably to blame in the "pointy-ness" of the above tomatoes, but at least the humidity is very low here in the high desert.

Today? A very pleasant 83°. Aaaaahhh.

[tam91]

My Vince P1s either completely or mostly lost the point as they matured. I put a photo up on the Vince P1 thread.

[lakelady]

oh me too, it drives me nuts since I'm new to the varieties I'm growing and when I see a pointy baby tom, I think oh no, what is this?

My Legend has one regular and one pointy on the same branch, it looks pretty funny.

[RayR]

I've got round tomatoes that should be pointy. An Opalka plant that is making round fruit.

[FILMNET]

Robin, this might not be funny for you, 2 years ago, i got Sungold seeds, from Kathy i think. I grew all 5 seed to plants, 2 were tomatoberry's which looked like hearts. Sungold come from a Japan company and the tomatoberrys one's are from the company also. My green cherry's looked like your. Also, not sweet.

[akgardengirl]

I've always blamed the not suppose to be pointy tomatoes on the colder weather here. Guess not....
Sue B.

[Father'sDaughter]

Interesting topic! I have a couple of Casino plants that started off producing plum shaped fruit with no points. Then I started getting plum shaped fruits with points. Now suddenly I have a few on each plant that appear to be forming into elongated pointy tomatoes! I'm waiting to see if they fill out into plums as they develop, but right now they look nothing like I believe they should.

The weather had been hot and humid. Could that really be what's causing such a variety of shapes in some tomatoes?

[RobinB]

That's the theory, possibly only heat though. In my case, it couldn't be humidity. We had 95-103° for a while, but only 7-10% humidity during the day... If we're lucky, we get up to 25% humidity at night.

[Worth1]

I have high heat and high (and) low humidity and the only tomatoes that have points are the ones that are supposed to have points.

Maybe the varieties that aren't supposed to have points are trying to make a point.
I have never seen a sungold with a point.
It would be pointless for a sungold to make a point as they dont have a point to make.

I dont think it is the heat.

I guess that is the point I'm trying to make, get the point.

Worth

[kath]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I have high heat and high (and) low humidity and the only tomatoes that have points are the ones that are supposed to have points.

Maybe the varieties that aren't supposed to have points are trying to make a point.
I have never seen a sungold with a point.
It would be pointless for a sungold to make a point as they dont have a point to make.

I dont think it is the heat.

I guess that is the point I'm trying to make, get the point.

Worth

Sometimes you crack me up, Worth.

[RobinB]

His point exactly.

[Father'sDaughter]

I was out checking on the garden this afternoon, and in thinking about this thread, I took another look at the Casino plants. Here's an example of the three different shapes--all on the same truss!

[jennifer28]

I have some pink boar tomatoes that I am growing in proximity to some heart varieties. Some of the pink boars have points now. They shouldn't have points, as far as I know. So I think my bees have been busy. If there is something I really want to save seed for, I will bag the blossom. And then if the fruit isn't what I want even after I bag it, I don't save that seed.

[Father'sDaughter]

I thought any crosses wouldn't show up until the second grow out, and that the fruit from the current year would grow true? If that's right, then any crosses that are showing up now would have happened last year. Is that right?

[jennifer28]

well i dont know. lemme think. yes you are right. they should look normal when the cross happens. but then they carry that trait.

let A = no point
let a = point

so we have AA growing out.

then it gets cross pollinated and it becomes Aa.

so then you could have AA, Aa, aa, Aa

Well I don't know why the heck those pink boars have points except they have been grown in the vicinity of pointy other tomatoes before and not been bagged. I just dont give them out if they havent been bagged.

I should probably not grow these out anymore, but if i like them I'll just keep them and not give them out. Because they dont look right, LOL