You likely had a fasciated flower (megabloom) that caused kind of like conjoined twins of the tomato world. That happens pretty regularly with homegrown tomatoes, especially heirloom varieties. I have one now (Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom) that is like half a tomato that’s very long and it looks more like a yellow pepper. One of the fun things about growing your own veggies is, you never know what you’ll get!
Grouchy-Beach289
Normal! I have several like that as well, alongside the typical looking ones.
Burnie_9
I would like to add to what another commenter said about fasciated flowers. While different varieties (genotypes) of tomatoes are more prone to this than others, there is also going to be differences among each seed (phenotype).
For example, Cherokee Purple is the genotype. If I buy a packet of such seeds then each seed I plant will be a different phenotype and therefore have different expressions in look, taste, smell. (Usually genotypes are breed to be stable and produce as few of phenotypes as possible). You could take a phenotype that is prone to fasciation and breed it to produce as much of those as possible, not sure why you would, but just an example.
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Normal.
That’s a completely normal tomato.
Its a tomatwo
I did a chaos garden this year and got a volunteer tomatoe. Looks fine to me.
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I got a little cherry tomato like that!
You likely had a fasciated flower (megabloom) that caused kind of like conjoined twins of the tomato world. That happens pretty regularly with homegrown tomatoes, especially heirloom varieties. I have one now (Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom) that is like half a tomato that’s very long and it looks more like a yellow pepper. One of the fun things about growing your own veggies is, you never know what you’ll get!
Normal! I have several like that as well, alongside the typical looking ones.
I would like to add to what another commenter said about fasciated flowers. While different varieties (genotypes) of tomatoes are more prone to this than others, there is also going to be differences among each seed (phenotype).
For example, Cherokee Purple is the genotype. If I buy a packet of such seeds then each seed I plant will be a different phenotype and therefore have different expressions in look, taste, smell. (Usually genotypes are breed to be stable and produce as few of phenotypes as possible). You could take a phenotype that is prone to fasciation and breed it to produce as much of those as possible, not sure why you would, but just an example.