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Very interesting megathing there. It should place high in the ugly tomato contest too. Do all the "megablooms" (not sure of the terminoligy for each "tomato fist") ripen into something more uniform? - Lisa |
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#273 |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Ditto what AKmark said. Welcome to Tomatoville & grats on the record. Do you sell seeds?
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#274 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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I had a huge 4lb+ megabloom tomato last year, a Mushroom Basket... saved seeds produced beautiful plants with Zero tomatoes except one that had a 1lb non discript tomato on it...
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#275 |
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I threw it in the trash...
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I'll try to describe it but would rather have a diagram showing it and if I have time tomorrow I'll try to find one. Fact is that the ovules ( seeds to be)in the tomato ovary are self pollenized before the blossoms ever open. And that happens b/c when the tomato embryo starts to get larger the stigma, the pollen receptacle, pushes upwards and self pollenization occurs before the blossom ever opens close to 99 or so % of the time. When the seeds in a single fruit are germinated it's been found that up to 5 different seeds can be found,which is why so many home growers go to such great lengths to prevent cross pollination and often bag blossoms or use geographic distances to prevent the halictid bees that do most of those X pollinations from happening . And it's also known that when all of the ovules in the ovary are NOT fertilized that other ovules can be X pollenated I'll try to find a diagram for that when I can,as well as linking to the role of halictid bees in the process. Carolyn
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Now if you want to talk Big Zac, I'll be growing F5's this year..: F4's were still big at over 2lbs and they were not megablooms.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Those guys have saved seeds from megablooms for many generations. They hold all of the records, nobody is coming close who is using other methods, and there are quite a few guys involved with that practice. With that said, the issues that concern you, are being greatly countered by positive results. And there are many many examples that we can use. We can go back and forth, pull out every piece of information that is available to build a case, and it still will fall short. Results, results, results, the man holds the world record, so my hat comes off to him and his buddies. Mark |
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#279 |
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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I think you need to read marv's book,it talks a lot about pollination, they can't pollinate before they are open, the pollen isn't even ripe at that point,yes they are self pollinating but you can certainly cross pollinate them,that's how we get all the different types that we're working with, thanks akmark for your help.
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Outstanding work on those big ones, ugly and beautiful at the same time.
Marv's book is a great step-by-step, well written and my favorite part is all the nuggets of wisdom specific growers provide, it really brings home the lesson that there are many ways to skin a cat. My biggest one this year was just above 1 kilo, Spud Webb while yours were Manute Bol territory. Last edited by Gerardo; November 10, 2017 at 10:31 AM. |
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http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/na...rd_214064.html Several times I have suggested that folks interested in BIG tomatoes go to Dale Thurber's website and look at the section on BIG tomatoes. Have any of you done that? The link to Dale's site is here at Tville in the plant and seed Forum. Carolyn
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#282 |
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The current world record is 8.61 lbs which is mine, I have the certificate from Guinness to prove it.
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But I'd need your real name, not your user name to be able to do that. So please PM me your real name, you do say you are from Washington state. Your pictures are very good so would it be easier for you to have someone take a picture of you holding your certificate, or better still another close up of your certificate so everyone can read it. Look,I'm not trying to be difficult about this , not at all,I just want to know what's what in case someone asks again, and I can point them to you. After all credit is due to those who deserve it IMO. Carolyn
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