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Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 20, 2009
09:09 PM Post #6970392
| Doesn't this just make your hair stand on end? 
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Joan
Belfield, ND
(Zone 4a)
 August 20, 2009
09:12 PM Post #6970401
| That's pretty weird! Any idea what caused that? |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 20, 2009
09:16 PM Post #6970420
| Haven't a clue! I've posted this pic over on the Tomato forum in hopes somebody over there knows.
We do live downwind of Los Alamos...
Nah, couldn't be that. |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
August 20, 2009
09:21 PM Post #6970432
| LOL, wow! Tomatoes with parasitic twins! Los Alamos, huh? Hmm, have you noticed any extra limbs growing from any of your family members or neighbors? O.O |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 20, 2009
09:47 PM Post #6970519
| It's kinda hard to tell... it's kinda like the Appalacians around here: old families that are all related somehow... and poor. I mean... is it thalidimide, thorium or thiamine deficiency? So many choices... |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
August 20, 2009
11:58 PM Post #6970955
| ROFL, hey watch it, yer talkin' to someone in KY ;) |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 21, 2009
12:11 AM Post #6970984
| So you know what I'm talkin' about...
None of that sloppy open genetics like in the big city. |
Hineni
Sharps Chapel, TN
(Zone 6b)
August 21, 2009
06:16 AM Post #6971444
| Personally, I'd go for 'Designer Mater' if I was marketing them ;) |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 21, 2009
09:21 AM Post #6971782
| Hmm... I am also downwind of Santa Fe... the city [very] different. This may be a crystal aura smudging reiki channeling "higher beings" effect...
LOL
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KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
August 21, 2009
03:00 PM Post #6973061
| LOL I like Hineni's idea; make lots of money on them. 'Course the demand would be great, and you'd have to try and grow tons of them! |
Joan
Belfield, ND
(Zone 4a)
August 21, 2009
03:03 PM Post #6973067
| Do you still have the really ugly one with all the green spewing out of it? If so, you should cut it in half so we can see what the inside looks like. :) |
lizards_keep
Colmesneil, TX
(Zone 8b)
August 22, 2009
05:43 AM Post #6975149
| Too much goat poop? |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 22, 2009
02:40 PM Post #6976363
| Nope, no goat poop at all. Just the donkey manure, which I've always done. The only new thing this year is the high tunnel... maybe it's just tomato-ey excitement? LOL |
lizards_keep
Colmesneil, TX
(Zone 8b)
August 22, 2009
03:11 PM Post #6976447
| It looks like little tomatoes growing out of the big one. Are there a lot of them or just a few. Mutations or sports occure all the time in the palnt world. May be the high tunnel is keeping too much pollen concentrated around the plants and making them do weird things or maybe it has crossed with something else that is putting out a lot of pollen.
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Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 22, 2009
05:10 PM Post #6976821
| Tomatoes are self-fertile, so pollen levels and crossing is pretty irrelevant. It is little tomatoes growing out the bottom, seems that Siletz is prone to it, and I think it's called hyperparthnocarpy... at least that's what one site called it. Haven't gotten around to finding out why it happens. Not all of the fruit are affected, it seems to be mostly the first set. |
lizards_keep
Colmesneil, TX
(Zone 8b)
August 22, 2009
06:07 PM Post #6976973
| You are correct on tomatoes being self-fertile but they can still cross with other varieties to create some weird looking stuff. Not familiar with what grows in your part of the world but that one looked like it tried to have a litter instead of just one. |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
August 22, 2009
09:04 PM Post #6977490
| LOL... littering. =0)
On further research, the Siletz is parthenocarpic, meaning it will form fruit without pollination, useful for cool temps when the pollen might not be sufficiently mature at the first flowerings. So this is probably a function of that characteristic.
Parthenocarpic tomatoes (and other plants) produce very few seeds, so this is useful for both greenhouse growing (no pollinators needed) and folks with diverticulitis (little to no seed removal necessary). |
CajuninKy
Inez, KY
(Zone 6a)
September 07, 2009
11:14 PM Post #7038968
| Wierd deal. Looks like an eviseration. |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
September 08, 2009
05:19 PM Post #7041474
| What'd you end up doing with it, Jayryunen? Probably sold it on ebay for big bucks, lol. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
September 08, 2009
07:07 PM Post #7041784
| Save the seed, and if it breeds true, PATENT IT! |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
October 23, 2009
10:50 AM Post #7200272
| We ate it! Got several others, just let them ripen and ate 'em. Yum! |
taynors
Urbana, OH
(Zone 5b)
October 23, 2009
12:11 PM Post #7200491
| kinda reminds me of the blob movies
you could do a movie on tomato blobs from outer space LOL |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
October 24, 2009
10:13 AM Post #7203245
| Controlling the president's mind... doesn't matter which pres... a REAL vegetable conspiracy for world domination...
Be afraid, be sorta afraid.
LOL |
taynors
Urbana, OH
(Zone 5b)
October 24, 2009
10:27 AM Post #7203283
| LOL :) |
lizards_keep
Colmesneil, TX
(Zone 8b)
October 24, 2009
05:01 PM Post #7204305
| Didn't that start in Mexico and Central America? |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
October 24, 2009
07:41 PM Post #7204827
| Vegetable conspiracy? In Mexico?
I was thinking more China, where the tofu runs freeeeeeee! |
lizards_keep
Colmesneil, TX
(Zone 8b)
October 25, 2009
07:17 PM Post #7207841
| Since Calf. has turned off the water to all of its farmers for the preservation of some kind of fish or something and stop the spread of global warming we will have to get most of our veggies from Mexico and Central America now. China just fortifies the tofu with Melamine for extra flavor.
Right?
..
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porkpal
Richmond, TX
October 26, 2009
12:04 AM Post #7208832
| I thought the melamine increased the apparent protein! (Seems more like a thickening - stiffening? - agent to me.) |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
October 26, 2009
09:36 AM Post #7209547
| Yeah, it's how they make firm tofu... LOL
Remember melamine handles on utensils?
Yeah, CA... where they cut the farmers off, but lawn watering is still legal. Well, we'd better not get started on water politics... you know what they say out here in the West...
Whiskey's fer drinkin', water's fer fightin'... |
taynors
Urbana, OH
(Zone 5b)
October 26, 2009
09:01 PM Post #7211932
| beer for my horses and whiskey for my men ! LOL
:)
that is al i know *wink* |
Jayryunen
Sapello, NM
(Zone 5b)
October 27, 2009
09:52 AM Post #7213254
| I've got a donkey that whimpers for beer... he's just purely pathetic if you stand near him while you're drinking a cold one. Do you have any idea how long that upper lip can get? LOL I always save him the last swallow in the bottle... oh yes, he drinks out of the bottle.
Personally, I take this as proof of reincarnation... my other donks are just not that interested in beer. I think ol' Shenanigans was a lush in his last life... |
taynors
Urbana, OH
(Zone 5b)
October 27, 2009
03:39 PM Post #7214210
| LOL Jay that is to funny. Could be , you just never know about his universe of ours :) |
