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This is the largest megabloom I've seen. Actually, I suppose it is no longer a megabloom, but a fruit from a megabloom.
It's 4 1/2 months too early to plant anything outside. I grew this plant to get pollen for a cross and found this fruit as I was about to throw it away. It is still in a 4" cup at this point. I'm trying to decide whether to try keeping this growing in a small pot and feeding it to see what it becomes. Is there a chance of getting one of those large ugly monsters to grow indoors in a pot? This is a Dwarf Firebird Sweet - an unreleased variety from the Dwarf Projet. Will it stunt it to transplant it into a larger pot at this stage? Either way, I found it interesting. |
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cool!
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Wow! I too had a couple massive mega bloom from dwarf firebird sweet but they never took. I guess i will have to replant a few of these to see what i get.
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What a neat mega bloom fruit you have. I wonder just how many fused blossoms it was.
Good luck on growing that fruit out! I do hope that it works for you.
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No it wont stunt it go ahead and transplant.
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Nice worm! and surely tastes better than the squirming ones!
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Well, since I never tried either, you be the judge of that Worth
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I don't see it as a megabloom, aka fused blossom, I see it as a nice example of catfacing.
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Sorry to disagree, Carolyn, but I watched the plant blossom and even collected pollen from it. It had several other normal blossoms. This one was one of the largest and most oddly shaped fused blossoms I have ever seen. Instead of a big roundish cluster like I usually see, these were all fused in a row - side to side. I've never seen one like it. I couldn't see any separation between or tell for sure how many blossoms there were. The cluster of blossoms was over an inch long and kind of U-shaped with the bases of the blossoms attached and forming the inside of the U and the ends of the flowers kind of arching around forming the outside of the U - like the fruit in the picture does. I have no doubt that it was a fused blossom.
I put it in a one-gallon pot to see what it ends up like. I am not going to let any other blossoms set. It probably will not ripen evenly. It would be interesting if it ripened in the center with the ends green...... Hopefully, we'll see. Quote:
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Here's a couple picks from Dwarf Firebird Sweet showing what i think Dan is explaining only it sounds like he has a mega mega bloom going on. These were mega blossoms from a couple different plants i had. None of the blossoms in the pics set fruit like yours though. It seemed like this variety liked to throw out some serious blooms.
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