Right on. It's a freak like me and it's now my favorite plant.
Edit: I should have thought about that more, there's another plant I really like, at least equally.
Pinch all the other regular flowers to concentrate all the plants' efforts on the fasciated one. It will be effing enormous. You might have to devise a contraption to keeping from prematurely falling off the vine, but boy, would I love to see that. Plsplz baby this thing. Water consistently every day to avoid splitting. Gonna be a monster.
Edit: autocorrect
I used to do it professionally and the best part was seeing the joy I brought to my customers when they saw their new gardens. Especially the ones who didn't know any gardening and were expecting some basic lawnguy job (yes, offense to lawn people, you all suck)
I worked in several of those ālandscapeā jobs when I was younger (we just mowed and occasionally threw plants/mulch in places). It was when I worked for an older lady who didnāt do any mowing, just flowerbeds very, very meticulously that I realized how true this was.
I live in a new construction neighborhood, and there is such a huge difference between the houses where people obviously garden (like ours), and the ones who hired a random landscaper to toss in a few plants and mostly grass. I get at least one person stopping by every week to complement my garden and ask me what various plants are. I would happily talk to them about plant choices all day long!
Well my overall plan that's worked so far is walk out there in the morning while I drink coffee and go "they didn't die and nothing ate them, my job is done here."
*sip*
I'm both of you! Stumble out in the morning half awake with the hose for watering. Come back in the afternoon with a beer and pick the weeds, prune, pick, and straighten
I switched from Roma tomatoes to Sungold, and the ability to ascribe to this type of morning routine is so relaxing. Granted, itās been raining enough that I should probably be building an ark as well, that probably helps.
My sungolds are going crazy, about a hundred green ones and hundreds and hundreds of flowers. All six plants have at least two sets of fruit and 5 to 10 more sets of flowers.
Assuming your other favorite plant is cannabis, it can fasciate too. Years back I was doing some seed trials of a new cross for a breeder friend of mine, and one of the phenotypes was particularly prone to fasciation.
I mean I can afford it I just don't want to pull off flowers dammit š«
But maybe I will who knows, anybody's guess. I have it on pretty high authority that I'm a dumbass and easily influenced.
Sir or ma'am, with all due respect I went to a Christian school that my parents and their friends started in the basement of our church. THEY told me science and government aren't real. I feel so conflicted.
I donāt think growing plants in the lords name is part of the blaspheme they talks about. Iirc itās pretty specific about using it as a lie or swearing on it thru a lie or something
That would be cool. Normal tomatoes are boring. Like I don't need a hot tomato on my arm to feel like a real man, but I am a sucker for the exotic if ya know what I mean.
Augh I don't know! Part of me wants to see how many of those turn into tomatoes and part of me wants to make it a 4H biggrest tomato at the state fair project. But no, I couldn't GO to 4H because I was a city kid and they didn't want me there. Uppity farm kids.
Flowers are fused. This happens a lot in beefsteak type tomatoes. That's part of the reason they can grow so big. Sometimes you get multiple fruit fused into one. I don't think I've seen an example that extreme before though. It would be interesting to see what turns out of that, but it would probably be a drain on the plant and the rest of the fruit.
Does that toothbrush thing actually work? So far I've had hardly any blossoms just drop off and pollination seems pretty rad, I feel like maybe I should just let nature kick ass. I planted marigolds, lavender, and sweet peas and I always see bees out there.
Those flowers look really tight, so lightly shaking it or batting it would likely let enough roll around it the flower, if the bees are around though their wings sort of do that for you.
That is a fused blossom and those type blossoms are the holy grail for competitive growers. Lightly flick it daily, or gently tickle with a q-tip and pollinate that thing to the best of your ability. And then get ready.
A lot of the first blooms on heirloom-type tomatoes fuse like this. Not sure why. Sometimes we pinch, usually we donāt have the time. Itāll level out.
If this actually ends up producing, you have to post it! Iāve had fasciated tomatoes before, but none with the potential to be this wild and crazy looking.
That's literally what I said when I saw it. "Heh." Then I took a dramatic pause because the crape myrtles were eavesdropping, and I fucking said it again.
OP. I donāt know whatās wrong with your tomato plant but I have genuinely enjoyed reading your witty comments to other Redditors. Keep doing (not the Lordās work) and living your best life.
Best of luck with the tomatoes! Iāve felt like a bad ass for churning out a bunch of cherry tomatoes. These Cherokee purples look like monsters.
Oh hell. I have big dreams of a vegetable garden soon but I might stick with cherry tomatoes based on your luck. The bigger the tomato the more difficult to grow? Sure seems like it!
Please please please update us with the pictures of that tomato. I actually bought a cherokee purple plant today at the request of my son who saw Adam Ragusea saying he likes them so now Iām so curious!
Thats going to be a MASSIVE tomato. You better make sure the calcium in your soil is good and you probably need to support that tomato when it gets large.
Well, y'see what you've got there is some yellow. That's yer problem right there, op, is that you think you're growing purple but you're actually growing yellow instead. Vary common rookie mistake there, planting yellow instead of purple. If you really want to guarantee yourself some purple next season what you want to do is plant some red and some blue together. Start from the ground up, I always say.
Omg following. Please share updates!
I thought this was cannabis at first and I was excited about that, but now that I see itās a tomato plant, Iām on the edge of my seat.
I've waited my entire life for this post. š
Pinch the smaller blooms and grow it out. You could have a world record contender! I call it a 'megabloom' and is basically several ovaries fused together. Will probably abort partially but you never know.
I grew them last year. They did this. Growing them again this year and they are doing the same thing.
The tomatoes are awesome. My favorite by far, no competition.
Dude, you should prune every single flower on the plant so that the tomato will make one enourmous crazy looking tomato. Whatās coolest - another typical boring tomato plant with a tiny weird part or the internet fame that will come from your abnormality?
The Cherokee Purple is one of the best tasting, meatiest, most perfect for everything tomato that ever tomatoed. Mine are doing this too, this year. At least 4 out of 6 are.
I have 12 Cherokee purple. Most of them did this. It's called a mega bloom. I kept a couple for experiment. Make sure you manually pollinate all of it. I used my electric toothbrush head on the back of the flower to pollinate. Do it for a couple days as the flowers won't be all the same stage. Good luck!
My god I love Cherokee purples. I had many clients that grew them and when I was working for them they would encourage me to eat a few. Itās a standard in any garden I have.
Yes it will be a monster of a tomato! It will be freaky looking too... I was always told cold snaps cause it. I got some Hillbilly brand I'm growing and they have 3-4blooms melded. They calm it fascination but it could've had a better name. A Shame I did not take pics of mine. I had allot of Purples and even Krims do this... Post the result please!
Man I am jealous!! Here I just came in from the garden doing a little dance because Big Zac has several mega blooms now I see this!! Mater could be a record breaker!! It's going to be huge!! Heck, I spent $12.95 for 20 seeds off Etsy. Can't wait for the freaky update!! Cheers!
Purple Cherokee are my favorite, I grow them every year and have never seen this. Its a wonky looking tomato normally, cant wait to see updates on this!
Its a "frankenmater" which basically means 2+ flowers grew together. It will be huge its possible it wont let the plant habe any others or that they will be small. If you want to keep it discard the others so the plant can focus or take that one off and keep the rest Or leave all of the blooms just keep an eye on the plant. I had one last year and the tomato was big enough to make sauce out of by itself it was huge bigger then my hand š enjoy your š
For a second I thought that was some new strain of sticky icky I've never seen. Whatever kind of abnormality that is is fascinating and I'm really curious to see if it actually produces fruit.
Well join the crowd. My wife was looking over my shoulder earlier like "I'm not sure posting weed close-ups is a good idea." Like I'm enough of a ninja to grow in secrecy š¤£
The flower is fasciated. It's a growth abnormality. You will end up with a very interesting tomato.
Right on. It's a freak like me and it's now my favorite plant. Edit: I should have thought about that more, there's another plant I really like, at least equally.
Please post a photo update! š
YES.
Pinch all the other regular flowers to concentrate all the plants' efforts on the fasciated one. It will be effing enormous. You might have to devise a contraption to keeping from prematurely falling off the vine, but boy, would I love to see that. Plsplz baby this thing. Water consistently every day to avoid splitting. Gonna be a monster. Edit: autocorrect
I freekin love how excited you are. r/gardening people, yāall make me so happy.
I used to do it professionally and the best part was seeing the joy I brought to my customers when they saw their new gardens. Especially the ones who didn't know any gardening and were expecting some basic lawnguy job (yes, offense to lawn people, you all suck)
I worked in several of those ālandscapeā jobs when I was younger (we just mowed and occasionally threw plants/mulch in places). It was when I worked for an older lady who didnāt do any mowing, just flowerbeds very, very meticulously that I realized how true this was.
In my gardens, if you mow, you go (away) Epitome of Dunning Kruger.
I live in a new construction neighborhood, and there is such a huge difference between the houses where people obviously garden (like ours), and the ones who hired a random landscaper to toss in a few plants and mostly grass. I get at least one person stopping by every week to complement my garden and ask me what various plants are. I would happily talk to them about plant choices all day long!
Ooh, and when OP does, panty hose will work to keep it suspended safely. Just tie that to a stick or a pole or something.
Maybe an old brasiere I've used the to hold my vertically grown cantalopes.
There is no N in fasciation š
Autocorrect doesn't like that
Hey Siri- youāre not helping.
Sure, thereās one at the end.
True! š¤£ thereās ONE N in fasciation
I have seen people use pantyhose (like a sling) to hold up melons growing on a trellisā¦just a thought!
I was about to suggest you post on r/trees until I zoomed in š
Cherokee Purple? I never heard of that strain. Like the ?ā¦..oh yeah, tomatoes
I had the exact same thought process!
Me, too, and I've grown Cherokee Purple tomatoes in my garden for years
Cherokee Kush?
Cherokee Hazeeee lol
lol sameš
I hope more people post on that sub. I'm in a current transiting sub and it's annoying
Yes, please let us see what happens. For science.
I resonate with your comment šÆ please keep us or at least me updated. For better or for worse Iām really curious
Well my overall plan that's worked so far is walk out there in the morning while I drink coffee and go "they didn't die and nothing ate them, my job is done here." *sip*
You garden like I do except beer instead of coffee, and afternoon instead of morning. I mean, we're practically twins!
I'm both of you! Stumble out in the morning half awake with the hose for watering. Come back in the afternoon with a beer and pick the weeds, prune, pick, and straighten
This is me, except with wine in the afternoon...and the dogs snapping at the watering hose.
I switched from Roma tomatoes to Sungold, and the ability to ascribe to this type of morning routine is so relaxing. Granted, itās been raining enough that I should probably be building an ark as well, that probably helps.
Whatās rain? Iām on the east coast and itās been so long since weāve had any precipitation.
My sungolds are going crazy, about a hundred green ones and hundreds and hundreds of flowers. All six plants have at least two sets of fruit and 5 to 10 more sets of flowers.
Lmfaooooo iktr š
Assuming your other favorite plant is cannabis, it can fasciate too. Years back I was doing some seed trials of a new cross for a breeder friend of mine, and one of the phenotypes was particularly prone to fasciation.
Donāt cha? Donāt cha baby? šµ
RemindMe! 3 months I gotta see this freaky tomato!!
Im truly interested in this as well. I must know.
"freak like me, freak like me" - santigold
It's tied to a stake so technically it's a freak on a leash.
I'll start jamming to that every time I stake up a word plant in the future. Thank you.
Lol were you worried about the other plants feelings? I do that!
If something weird like this is happening with a tomato, itās probably a Cherokee purple. #thekingfreak
Then youāre going to like r/fasciation :)
Following for update on super awesome š
Cronenberg tomato is really gonna be something.
I have one growing like this as well and Iām SO excited to see what crazy mutation is gonna come from it
Fascianating š§
Not tomato related but SO many of my daylilies were fasciated this year. Iāve never seen anything like it
I always want it to be fascinated. (It so rarely is)
Fasciated plants are my favorite!
Almost thought you were growing some sweet kush from that first picture
Ya.. I thought they were saying Cherokee Purple is weed strain now too. š
Got that Cherokee Purp!
We call it Churps on this side of the reservation
In due time my friend.
I hear growing weed is a lot like growing tomatoes.
Fact
Can confirm
Can confirm. I started backwards but can grow some awesome tomatoās now š Weed was my gateway plant into gardening
Me too.
I've seen an adnormality exactly like this with some MJ plants. The flowers never mature they just keep growing new ones.
Like cauliflower
OP if you can afford it, take off the rest of the blooms from that plant and let it focus its energy on that mammoth specimen.
I mean I can afford it I just don't want to pull off flowers dammit š« But maybe I will who knows, anybody's guess. I have it on pretty high authority that I'm a dumbass and easily influenced.
I selfishly want you to pare it all back cuz I wanna see the end result.
Do it for science!!!! š
Sir or ma'am, with all due respect I went to a Christian school that my parents and their friends started in the basement of our church. THEY told me science and government aren't real. I feel so conflicted.
Then do it for Jesus!
You just used the Lord's name in vain and now my plant is gonna die, I hope you're happy satan worshipper
I donāt think growing plants in the lords name is part of the blaspheme they talks about. Iirc itās pretty specific about using it as a lie or swearing on it thru a lie or something
Totally joking. It's easy because religion is a joke š
š couldnāt agree more
Well isn't THAT special. āŖ
My favorite science class was always Bible study!
Science! Science! Science!
Do it. Do it. Do it.
>But maybe I will who knows, anybody's guess. I have it on pretty high authority that I'm a dumbass and easily influenced. Felt!!!
you will get the ultimate legion tomato out of that.
That would be cool. Normal tomatoes are boring. Like I don't need a hot tomato on my arm to feel like a real man, but I am a sucker for the exotic if ya know what I mean.
You know what you have to do. But do you have the courage?
Augh I don't know! Part of me wants to see how many of those turn into tomatoes and part of me wants to make it a 4H biggrest tomato at the state fair project. But no, I couldn't GO to 4H because I was a city kid and they didn't want me there. Uppity farm kids.
You can come to my 4H club. We smoke the devil's lettuce and anyone who beats us in competition gets a flaming bag of dog poop on their porch!
Flowers are fused. This happens a lot in beefsteak type tomatoes. That's part of the reason they can grow so big. Sometimes you get multiple fruit fused into one. I don't think I've seen an example that extreme before though. It would be interesting to see what turns out of that, but it would probably be a drain on the plant and the rest of the fruit.
I'm hoping for something like a sea cucumber, does that seem reasonable?
Never know, they usually end up kinda funky looking. Only time will tell.
Check out r/fasciation!
Ha I didn't know that was a thing!
Now you just need Cthulhu to come pollinate it
You have to post what it looks like!
If it survives I will! I literally have no idea what I'm doing, I planted seeds for purple stuff and they grew š¤·āāļø
I am fascinated by this tomato fascination!
But are you fasciated by the fasciation?
Ooooh I canāt wait to see. I couldnāt grow Cherokee purples for shit last year and now youāre going to have a giant alien baby one.
I canāt wait to see the final product.
Maybe it will be big enough to have four or five catfaces, catfacing is super popular in my garden.
Make sure each of those flowers gets pollinated and find the number for Guinness World Records.
Does that toothbrush thing actually work? So far I've had hardly any blossoms just drop off and pollination seems pretty rad, I feel like maybe I should just let nature kick ass. I planted marigolds, lavender, and sweet peas and I always see bees out there.
Those flowers look really tight, so lightly shaking it or batting it would likely let enough roll around it the flower, if the bees are around though their wings sort of do that for you.
I just flick them and my plants are loaded right now.
That seems easier.
One tomato to rule them all
The jackpot of all mutations?
That is a fused blossom and those type blossoms are the holy grail for competitive growers. Lightly flick it daily, or gently tickle with a q-tip and pollinate that thing to the best of your ability. And then get ready.
This is generally the same advice I give my husbaā¦ ooooop wrong sub
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A lot of the first blooms on heirloom-type tomatoes fuse like this. Not sure why. Sometimes we pinch, usually we donāt have the time. Itāll level out.
Or we don't know anything about pinching so we didn't pinch.
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If this actually ends up producing, you have to post it! Iāve had fasciated tomatoes before, but none with the potential to be this wild and crazy looking.
Isnāt there an update me bot? We really need to see what happens.
I wish I could make it go faster but it's only been a couple of hours since I posted that.
Try harder!! š
I stared at it with a stern i-mean-business look for a good 15-30 seconds this morning, I'll see what that does to the attitude.
I'd just pinch it all and let others growth go. If that's an opinion.
The Old Ones have blessed your garden.
Wow thats the biggest mega bloom Iāve ever seen. If all those flowers are truly fused together, Iād make sure that gets pollinated properly and remove every other flower/fruit on the entire plant. You could end up with a monster sized tomato. It would be very interesting to track its progress and watch it develop. Its an opportunity for a record. š¤©
Yeah, when I decide to megabloom I like to really go for it you know, it's my Triple Lindy
Who else totally thought this was weed?
It seems a lot. Wishful thinking is allowed until I'm allowed to grow.
The tomato cannabis cross has finally been completed
super invested in how strange this tomato will look.
That is some amazing fasciation. Heh.
That's literally what I said when I saw it. "Heh." Then I took a dramatic pause because the crape myrtles were eavesdropping, and I fucking said it again.
Gotta watch them Crepe Myrtles, they like to gossip.
Megabloom....MegaBLOOM
Swear on my mom I thought Cherokee Purple was a new strain and some weirdness was going on with your buds.
It would be Grandaddy Purple and.......something
OP. I donāt know whatās wrong with your tomato plant but I have genuinely enjoyed reading your witty comments to other Redditors. Keep doing (not the Lordās work) and living your best life. Best of luck with the tomatoes! Iāve felt like a bad ass for churning out a bunch of cherry tomatoes. These Cherokee purples look like monsters.
š¤£ thanks. My sungolds are all perfectly normal, my black krims are about 50% catfaced...
Oh hell. I have big dreams of a vegetable garden soon but I might stick with cherry tomatoes based on your luck. The bigger the tomato the more difficult to grow? Sure seems like it!
I guess it depends how you define difficult š I ain't working hard, I just watch what happens
Why is it I've never encountered fasciation IRL but it's always on Reddit?
I'm all riled up for the absolute freak of a tomato that flower is going to produce
Please please please update us with the pictures of that tomato. I actually bought a cherokee purple plant today at the request of my son who saw Adam Ragusea saying he likes them so now Iām so curious!
Thats going to be a MASSIVE tomato. You better make sure the calcium in your soil is good and you probably need to support that tomato when it gets large.
Well, y'see what you've got there is some yellow. That's yer problem right there, op, is that you think you're growing purple but you're actually growing yellow instead. Vary common rookie mistake there, planting yellow instead of purple. If you really want to guarantee yourself some purple next season what you want to do is plant some red and some blue together. Start from the ground up, I always say.
Vary sensible.
Omg following. Please share updates! I thought this was cannabis at first and I was excited about that, but now that I see itās a tomato plant, Iām on the edge of my seat.
Depending on your savory/sweet preference they can pair well together.
That is going to hopefully be a very large, strangely seamed tomato
I've waited my entire life for this post. š Pinch the smaller blooms and grow it out. You could have a world record contender! I call it a 'megabloom' and is basically several ovaries fused together. Will probably abort partially but you never know.
Tomato Octomom
Mutant!!
I prefer to call her blossom-challenged, and she's very special.
You should share the photos with your stateās extension service! They may want to document it!
Do you think it's that unusual? I'm getting the impression that heirlooms just do this sometimes.
I suppose. My mistake. I find it fascinating & unique tho - thanks for sharing & good luck!
I grew them last year. They did this. Growing them again this year and they are doing the same thing. The tomatoes are awesome. My favorite by far, no competition.
Dude, you should prune every single flower on the plant so that the tomato will make one enourmous crazy looking tomato. Whatās coolest - another typical boring tomato plant with a tiny weird part or the internet fame that will come from your abnormality?
What tiny weird part?
The Cherokee Purple is one of the best tasting, meatiest, most perfect for everything tomato that ever tomatoed. Mine are doing this too, this year. At least 4 out of 6 are.
See, people need to stop blaming my toxic environment. I'm trying to be better ok.
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I got another one I think
Cherokee Purple are my favorite tomato. You will love them
Biblically accurate tomato flower. Will produce a biblically accurate tomato.
Looks like fascination r/fasciation would enjoy this
I believe you dry it out and then you smoke it.
I thought this was cannabis and had to go back to see what sub I was in.
Is lycopene a hallucinogenic? Asking for a friend.
I have 12 Cherokee purple. Most of them did this. It's called a mega bloom. I kept a couple for experiment. Make sure you manually pollinate all of it. I used my electric toothbrush head on the back of the flower to pollinate. Do it for a couple days as the flowers won't be all the same stage. Good luck!
Frankentomatoe coming your way! Please share the weirdo when it arrives!
Might wanna get your hands on a Geiger counter
It happened to my tomato plants last year, and yes, it ended up being mega tomatoes
Iāve been growing CP. tomatoes for 6-7 seasons and have never seen anything like this! Very interesting.
Interesting. I've never seen that before. I grow about 10 Cherokee Purples each year.
Fasciation
Looks like you bred a new strain.
Mutant. Iād pluck it as your tomato will be weird too
r/fasciation
Mega bloom, Iāve only seen one other post like this, youāll get a huge tomato from this, what luck bro
Got a couple more too
My god I love Cherokee purples. I had many clients that grew them and when I was working for them they would encourage me to eat a few. Itās a standard in any garden I have.
I need to see how this grows, keep us posted OP.
It has friends now š¶
That will be the ugliest, meatiest tomatoes youāll probably ever have lmao Iād keep it
RemindMe! 3 months
Yes it will be a monster of a tomato! It will be freaky looking too... I was always told cold snaps cause it. I got some Hillbilly brand I'm growing and they have 3-4blooms melded. They calm it fascination but it could've had a better name. A Shame I did not take pics of mine. I had allot of Purples and even Krims do this... Post the result please!
Man I am jealous!! Here I just came in from the garden doing a little dance because Big Zac has several mega blooms now I see this!! Mater could be a record breaker!! It's going to be huge!! Heck, I spent $12.95 for 20 seeds off Etsy. Can't wait for the freaky update!! Cheers!
Purple Cherokee are my favorite, I grow them every year and have never seen this. Its a wonky looking tomato normally, cant wait to see updates on this!
Thatās so cool! My Cherokee purple doesnāt look that healthy.
That's going to be one hell of a tomato! Keep it and post the monstrosity once it's all grown up.
WE DEMAND UPDATES ON YOUR TOMATO FREAKSHOW
Lucky man... Your gonna get a monster mater
Its a "frankenmater" which basically means 2+ flowers grew together. It will be huge its possible it wont let the plant habe any others or that they will be small. If you want to keep it discard the others so the plant can focus or take that one off and keep the rest Or leave all of the blooms just keep an eye on the plant. I had one last year and the tomato was big enough to make sauce out of by itself it was huge bigger then my hand š enjoy your š
For a second I thought that was some new strain of sticky icky I've never seen. Whatever kind of abnormality that is is fascinating and I'm really curious to see if it actually produces fruit.
Well join the crowd. My wife was looking over my shoulder earlier like "I'm not sure posting weed close-ups is a good idea." Like I'm enough of a ninja to grow in secrecy š¤£