Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 10, 2017
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: glendora ca
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Mega Blooms for HEAVY HITTERS!
Never before have i grown tomatoes for size.......until this year. I have several grafted heavy hitter varieties going this season and so far i have some very promising fused blossoms that have set fruit. Here is my progress in pictures. Do you have any you are excited about? If so post your pics of fused blossoms or just plain big fruit.
Pic 1 Mega Marv on Estamino Pic 2 Big Zac F7 on Maxifort Pic 3 Brutus on Estamino Pic 4 Giant Roo on Estamino
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Arkansas, Zone 7b
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Very nice! I am going to get some Big Zac seeds for next year.
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May 10, 2017
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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Nice!!! I have both Brutus and Big Zac getting ready to flower, so I'll post up any megablooms I might have. I do have one monster fused blossom on my Barlow's Best Black- I'll try to snap a picture tomorrow. It's hard for me to get to, as it's in the middle of the patch. I'm going to try to pollinate all of the stigmas by hand if I can.
On that last pic, is that all one bloom, or is the unfertilized ovary on the left from another discrete bloom? I hate when a megabloom doesn't fertilize all the way across, they end up being lopsided! |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,916
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Seems to me that Big Zac is leading the others.
Keep us posted . Interesting.
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Tomatovillian™
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Tomatovillian™
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Alrighty found the pic of the Barlows Best Black.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Central Illinois
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I grew some big ones last year
 Beauty Lottringa  3#8oz Big Zac  Mushroom Basket I had a fused one that would have broke 4#s, someone swiped it. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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Wow, I have never had that much fluting on my Big Zacs. Those look like Shar Pei dogs! LOL
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May 11, 2017
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Belgium
Posts: 240
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The last one! Gorgeous!
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