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Algoma, Wisconsin

Maybe some one can answer this question, I’m a first time giant tomato grower and I know on the seed envelopes or packing there the cross. I get that but I’m growing a heirloom tomato specifically Berkeley tie dye and I have s promising pollinated mega blossom. So if I make it till to a weigh-off what’s my cross?

7/22/2019 2:55:00 PM

Wixom MI.

Unless you made a cross pollination yourself you would still call it berkley tie dye open pollination

7/22/2019 4:21:50 PM

Wixom MI.

You would only give it a new name if you made a pure clean cross pollination with a different veriety tomato.

7/22/2019 4:24:05 PM

Oak Grove, Mn

I had to look up the Berkeley tie dye. It says it normally grows from 8-12 oz. As far as weighoff info...tomatoes are still being treated as pumpkins. The info gathered could be so much more helpful to the growers if the entries were more aligned with the fruit being grown.

7/22/2019 8:28:16 PM

Gone With The Win

Good luck on the mega blooms... Unless you planted the seed from such mother tomato it would be open pollinated but same name.

7/22/2019 10:28:54 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

There are many heirloom varieties that can produce megabloom fruits.
But unless they are big beefsteak varieties, the resulting fruits will not be truly large.
I am growing Hippie Zebra this year & it consistently produces megablooms but not the ribbon/periscope kind we covet.
I picked a fruit the other day, 1.4 pounds.
Incidentally, pretty tomato, green,yellow,red, purple stripes but pretty humdrum taste.

7/28/2019 4:38:41 PM