It’s caused by fasciation/mega blooms. Can be just something the plant does or herbicide exposure.
TheAngryCheeto
This is how the last of us started… but with tomatoes
Jewels737
I thought my cat faced tomatoes were weird lol. They look cool…
degenerateson
I’m obsessed with them
Bc212
A number of factors cause catfacing tomatos,cool temps for too long of a period while in budding phase,over pruning, to much humidity,to much nitrogen,over pruning while the plant is in the budding process.im sure there is probably a genetic reason somewhere that can cause it too.
tzd1
Mushroom basket type heirlooms Tom’s
mslashandrajohnson
Catfacing happens when the blossom is subjected to some mechanical stress, like windy rain or insect visits.
Those beefsteak fruit in the pic may be heirloom varieties that have larger blossoms. Some heirloom varieties have very large blossoms, like little dandelion flowers. The bigger the flower the more vulnerable to interference (it’s simply a bigger target).
It can be more difficult to ripen this fruit, when catfacing is present. Some sections are ripe but others are green.
Tomato fruits have sections of gel and seeds, in groups inside, similar to the interior of a bell pepper (they are distantly related). The tomato sections its seeds more thoroughly than a pepper does because tomato seeds use gel, where pepper seeds are dry and thus less vulnerable to damage/loss of viability when the pepper is opened by insects or birds.
So with catfacing in a beefsteak shaped tomato, some sections will ripen and be delicious eaten raw, and some sections will be green but the fruit is no longer intact so you’ll want to cook those parts.
There’s no shame in growing fruit that looks this way. It will probably taste amazing.
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They look awesome!
She live next to a nuclear power plant by chance?
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Could she have gotten Reisetomate plants by mistake? I’ve also head it called traveling tomato.
Maybe the timing of fertilizer?
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I love these! So cool looking
It’s caused by fasciation/mega blooms. Can be just something the plant does or herbicide exposure.
This is how the last of us started… but with tomatoes
I thought my cat faced tomatoes were weird lol. They look cool…
I’m obsessed with them
A number of factors cause catfacing tomatos,cool temps for too long of a period while in budding phase,over pruning, to much humidity,to much nitrogen,over pruning while the plant is in the budding process.im sure there is probably a genetic reason somewhere that can cause it too.
Mushroom basket type heirlooms Tom’s
Catfacing happens when the blossom is subjected to some mechanical stress, like windy rain or insect visits.
Those beefsteak fruit in the pic may be heirloom varieties that have larger blossoms. Some heirloom varieties have very large blossoms, like little dandelion flowers. The bigger the flower the more vulnerable to interference (it’s simply a bigger target).
It can be more difficult to ripen this fruit, when catfacing is present. Some sections are ripe but others are green.
Tomato fruits have sections of gel and seeds, in groups inside, similar to the interior of a bell pepper (they are distantly related). The tomato sections its seeds more thoroughly than a pepper does because tomato seeds use gel, where pepper seeds are dry and thus less vulnerable to damage/loss of viability when the pepper is opened by insects or birds.
So with catfacing in a beefsteak shaped tomato, some sections will ripen and be delicious eaten raw, and some sections will be green but the fruit is no longer intact so you’ll want to cook those parts.
There’s no shame in growing fruit that looks this way. It will probably taste amazing.