It's supposed to be a Black Krim. Why is it growing like this? Should I pick the Tomato?
by Jamponibillion
11 Comments
feldoneq2wire
That’s at least a quad blossom. 4 tomatoes growing together. It will be huge but it’s going to take a lot of energy for the plant to ripen that.
If you pick it off it will not ripen and it’s just for throwing away, but then the plant would be focused on producing more normal size tomatoes.
tomatocrazzie
This is common for early fruit. It is pretty big. Not a lot to gain by picking it now. I would let it go and eat it when the time comes. It is ugly, but it will taste fine.
Bc212
I would pluck it and let the plant get on with production as soon as possible!
Spiritual-Pianist386
No way I would let that fruit continue.
Warm_Hotel_3025
Feed it. Preferably a ripe dentist with a talent for causing pain.
Kushali
I like the weird ones, but I’m weird. I try to pull the super blooms if I catch them.
LolaAucoin
These are usually tough/woody and don’t taste good. You can let it go out of curiosity, but they probably won’t ripen at the same time and you won’t wanna eat it.
Ok-Cardiologist3042
Paint your tomato into a Jack Skellington face
motherfudgersob
Wow, one of the few times there is this much disagreement on what to do. And they’re all “right” in my opinion. The fruit is ugly but none of us much care about that. It likely will be fibrous with more skin and internal stem-like material. I’m not familiar with early deformed tomatoes tasting different. But slicing around this deformed fruit might be needed. If it were smaller I’d definately pluck it off jn favor of more normal fruit (and my experience with black krim are they aren’t particularly productive…and sensitive to heat for ripening (as in do not ripen easily in 90-100+ weather or night time temps 75F and above). So my answer somewhat depends on where you are and how much time you have left in your growing season before temperatures soar (which predictions are for cooler than normal in the SE US 2nd half of summer…but…)
I’d let it ripen. Please let us know if you do and how it tastes. It really would be a great experiment and I bet no matter the opinion given folks here would like to know! Great question and good luck!
Thirsty-Barbarian
It looks like it is getting too much plutonium.
Shermiebear
Black Krim is an open pollinated heirloom variety. “Mega-Blossoms” are common with heirloom varieties as well “cat-facing”. There’s really nothing you can do to stop this from happening unless you go to planting newer hybridized varieties.
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That’s at least a quad blossom. 4 tomatoes growing together. It will be huge but it’s going to take a lot of energy for the plant to ripen that.
If you pick it off it will not ripen and it’s just for throwing away, but then the plant would be focused on producing more normal size tomatoes.
This is common for early fruit. It is pretty big. Not a lot to gain by picking it now. I would let it go and eat it when the time comes. It is ugly, but it will taste fine.
I would pluck it and let the plant get on with production as soon as possible!
No way I would let that fruit continue.
Feed it. Preferably a ripe dentist with a talent for causing pain.
I like the weird ones, but I’m weird. I try to pull the super blooms if I catch them.
These are usually tough/woody and don’t taste good. You can let it go out of curiosity, but they probably won’t ripen at the same time and you won’t wanna eat it.
Paint your tomato into a Jack Skellington face
Wow, one of the few times there is this much disagreement on what to do. And they’re all “right” in my opinion. The fruit is ugly but none of us much care about that. It likely will be fibrous with more skin and internal stem-like material. I’m not familiar with early deformed tomatoes tasting different. But slicing around this deformed fruit might be needed. If it were smaller I’d definately pluck it off jn favor of more normal fruit (and my experience with black krim are they aren’t particularly productive…and sensitive to heat for ripening (as in do not ripen easily in 90-100+ weather or night time temps 75F and above). So my answer somewhat depends on where you are and how much time you have left in your growing season before temperatures soar (which predictions are for cooler than normal in the SE US 2nd half of summer…but…)
I’d let it ripen. Please let us know if you do and how it tastes. It really would be a great experiment and I bet no matter the opinion given folks here would like to know! Great question and good luck!
It looks like it is getting too much plutonium.
Black Krim is an open pollinated heirloom variety. “Mega-Blossoms” are common with heirloom varieties as well “cat-facing”. There’s really nothing you can do to stop this from happening unless you go to planting newer hybridized varieties.