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sevierville, Tn

What causes these?? Are they genetic, enviromental, or a combo ? The "book" says all really large fruit are the result of fused blossems. So can we make these happen? I am currently getting some mega flowers & a few double fused flowers. Is a double enough or do we need more? 3 ? 4 ? Any ideas ?? Thanks

6/2/2014 6:59:52 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Always sorta thought it might be a build up nutrients & growth spurt .in the past growing eating tomatoes I have tossed the deformed ones.they got my attention now

6/2/2014 8:30:27 AM

Corbin, KY

It would be real nice if we knew for sure. I would really like to have a few more of them. Some of the best ones appear on the first truss of blooms. I allways thought that stress might have something to do with there formation. If you had a mega bloom with four parts and all grew to 2 pounds you would have a new world record. Sounds easy. My tomatoes are really liking there weekly foliar spray of Dunkels. Good luck!

6/2/2014 9:59:57 AM

Allentown, PA

Mega blooms are a result of a genetic encoding found within strains of tomatoes. Some strains are notably more prone to create mega blooms such as Big Zac, Mega Marv,etc.

6/2/2014 12:38:08 PM

Goodwood, Ontario, Canada

Found a fused flower on one of my Hunt plants this morning. I grew the plant horizontally and buried for three feet before allowing the plant to grow vertically. It isn't the first blossom but it is about 12 inches off the soil and we had 50 degree nights as the blossom was being formed. No idea if any of this means anything.

6/9/2014 7:23:37 PM

Allentown, PA

I would attempt to pollinate it by artificial means via an electric toothbrush. Using one tends to force the mega bloom to pollinate the entire area thus increasing your chances at full pollination. Twelve inches above soil line is somewhat short to have a large tomato growing, however now that we find ourselves in June the heat pushes the plants to grow rather quickly so I would go ahead and allow the tomato to set. By the time the tomato is gaining any sort of real weight your plant should be tall enough to support the tomato and to feed it properly.

6/10/2014 7:16:25 AM