Giant tomato

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Good luck winning again.

Any pictures with them on the vine? Is there just one tomato per vine? Do you eat the tomato? What do you use to fertilize the plant?

I almost reached 2 lbs this year - 31.75 oz, lots of 24 oz, and some 27 oz. None were fused though.

Barb,

You seem to be getting what a typical large beefsteak variety, in my garden, produces. I do nothing to the plants, except pinch off lower dying leaves/branches.

Nearly all varieties will produce fruit of between 27 and 31 1/2 ounces, maximum. I thought that my scale was stuck/broken, with so many tomatoes weighing in at almost exactly 28 1/2 ounces.

Somewhere out in my garden, among almost 200 plants, there is one Domingo. I think that I will remove early blossoms, wait for a mega-bloom to set, and remove any blooms after that. One of these years I might break the 3 pound barrier.