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Mid June, tomato flowers don't set fruit
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1809260" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Heirloom varieties are not "deformed"... they have not been bred to be uniform shaped. Open pollinated ....heirloom.... varieties have all the possible combinations of genes so they will have more variety in each individual fruit. It is the refined breeding that takes out the variations and makes varieties look like cracker box houses all in a row. It is done to satisfy a need... such as uniform size, shape, for use as slicers, all fruits setting and ripening at the same time for harvesting reasons... Think that the Campbell's soup company wants tomatoes that need to be picked 3 times a week for 10 weeks? They want the tomatoes to all set fruit, be the same size and the same density, and to ripen all at the same time for mechanical harvesting. </p><p></p><p>Just starting to see some flowers on the tomatoes here. By far, the best plants I have are the Belgium Giants... twice the size and more robust... but they are putting up suckers faster than any other variety too. I plant about 6-10 varieties to try to insure that if one doesn't do good, another will... I think that is going to be the best thing I did this year. Some are down right pitiful... and I plant heirloom varieties for the most part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1809260, member: 25884"] Heirloom varieties are not "deformed"... they have not been bred to be uniform shaped. Open pollinated ....heirloom.... varieties have all the possible combinations of genes so they will have more variety in each individual fruit. It is the refined breeding that takes out the variations and makes varieties look like cracker box houses all in a row. It is done to satisfy a need... such as uniform size, shape, for use as slicers, all fruits setting and ripening at the same time for harvesting reasons... Think that the Campbell's soup company wants tomatoes that need to be picked 3 times a week for 10 weeks? They want the tomatoes to all set fruit, be the same size and the same density, and to ripen all at the same time for mechanical harvesting. Just starting to see some flowers on the tomatoes here. By far, the best plants I have are the Belgium Giants... twice the size and more robust... but they are putting up suckers faster than any other variety too. I plant about 6-10 varieties to try to insure that if one doesn't do good, another will... I think that is going to be the best thing I did this year. Some are down right pitiful... and I plant heirloom varieties for the most part. [/QUOTE]
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