I have never seen this before

[Delerium]

Is this common?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Delerium

Is this common?

Not common, no, but if one grows enough tomato plants over the years it can be seen from time to time, and yes, I've seen it.

Carolyn

[Delerium]

What is the cause of it Carolyn? The Petiole above it turned in to a huge sucker on the same plant.

[MarineCorps]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Not common, no, but if one grows enough tomato plants over the years it can be seen from time to time, and yes, I've seen it.

Carolyn

I see it all the time with greenhouse varieties, geronimos especially (Geronimo seems to want to put suckers out wherever it can). Was working with geronimos today and pruned a few off a bunch of them several plants. I've seen a few with trust and Rebelski but not as much as geronimos

[b54red]

Was it on a plant grafted onto one of the more vigorous rootstock like Multifort? I saw it a lot this year on some of those grafted plants. It was especially common on Carbon and Lumpy Red grafted onto Multifort rootstock. I had to constantly pinch and prune on those plants. If I left them for just a few days I would have a mess on my hands with crazy growth and suckers popping up everywhere. I only saw this on certain varieties of scions grafted onto Multifort and Amelia rootstock while others seemed to grow more normally.

Bill

Bill

[Delerium]

No Bill its not grafted plant. Here is what it looks like next to a regular sucker.. It's pretty Bizarre though.

[b54red]

I have had that happen before on a few different varieties but it was a rare occurrence before I used grafting. I saw this kind of weird growth more this past season on a couple of grafted plants. I found it better to just remove them quickly because when left to grow they just make a mess out of the plant and I ended up having to do major pruning later.

Bill

[aclum]

Hi Delerium,

After looking at your most recent photos, I now see what you were talking about (couldn't quite make it out with your first photos). It sort of reminds me of the attached photo of the crowns on the two stems or leaders I'm growing out from my ungrafted NAR. If you zoom into about 400% (or less depending on your eyesight, screen size, etc.), you can see how the crowns seem to have a bunch of suckers with stems nearly fused together and almost resembling broccoli florets. (I've since trimmed them down quite a bit).

Gotta run - off to the social security office to sign up for Medicare !

Anne

[remy]

I see fasciated stems every once in awhile.It happens with all kinds of plants, not just tomatoes.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/fasci...asciation.html