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Tinykinville

This practice has to stop. How many have lost megas due to messing around just for a picture it is not worth it. They are very fragile at this stage. If you want a pic turn your phone not the blossum. Every year I hear of megas being lost due to messing with them. To all the new growers just don't.

7/1/2019 10:40:41 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

I agree. In my pics i put my fingers and hands nearby just for size reference. I used to pull off the old petals and spent parts but don't anymore. I'm thinking a lot of the "blossom end rot" is actually your tomato catching something from your grubby fingers!

7/2/2019 2:18:55 AM

Central NY

Love the pics though!!!

7/2/2019 8:01:36 AM

central Nc

sometimes you just have to lick the stigmas to get the pollen to stick though.

7/2/2019 9:02:19 AM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

#teamstigmalickers

7/2/2019 9:10:38 AM

Western Massachusetts

I take two shots of calcium nitrate before licking my stigmas to avoid blossom end rot

7/2/2019 11:31:12 AM

Eastern Shore of VA

Is that what you young folks are calling it now ?

7/2/2019 2:22:01 PM

Central NY

Lol...soakers...

7/2/2019 2:43:29 PM

Wixom MI.

I let my tomatoes do it the old fashioned way !!!

7/2/2019 4:43:20 PM

On a cliff in the desert

I thought the thing now for young folks was eating/swallowing Tide pods not calcium nitrate. Maybe the Tide is for getting the bad language out of their mouths that they use nowadays.

7/2/2019 5:33:16 PM

Massachusetts

god joe, you sound like my wife, don't touch this, don't touch that!, there my megas and I want to touch them now! lol

7/2/2019 5:33:44 PM

Morgantown, WV

I show mine a bottle of ketchup and tell them to grow big... or else!

7/2/2019 7:09:00 PM

Western Massachusetts

I don't understand the tide pod thing either my generation is so dumb

7/2/2019 7:34:52 PM

On a cliff in the desert

Do a google search on Tide Pod Challenge Hayden.

7/2/2019 7:42:55 PM

Western Massachusetts

Darwinism in effect? Natural selection perhaps lol

7/2/2019 7:44:16 PM

Wisconsin

Its my mega and i'll touch it if I want

7/6/2019 5:50:44 AM

Ontario, Canada

I lost a couple big megablooms last year from trying to look at them. At least that's what I blamed it on. This year I'm not touching the bloom at all & I got my 1st 3 megablooms started without a problem. Now I just got to get them to grow to 10#s. LOL.

7/6/2019 12:10:16 PM

Tinykinville

Mike, Christina said you have no business calling it a mega. LMAO

7/6/2019 2:33:09 PM