anyone know what could cause this odd growth mutation ? These grew from from a neglected tomato plant that sprung up from a compost pile
by oceanariez
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maine-iak
Compost pile volunteers reverting to parent type plant, just a guess.
DreamSoarer
I don’t know what they are, but I had a volunteer tomato plant grow out of my compost two years ago. I threw at least four different varieties of tomatoes away in that compost through the previous year – all store bought.
I swear… this one plant has a stem that looked like five stems out together, and it grew three different types of tomatoes. It looked like one 1/4 of the bush grew the kind you have in your photo. Another 1/4 grew grape tomatoes, and the other half grew cherry tomatoes.
It was one plant… ginormous. I carefully trimmed it back at the end of the season to make sure it was not multiole plants growing together, and it was not. It was just the freakiest and thickest looking tomato vine stem I’ve ever seen, like a multi-fruit tree.
I can tell you that those funky looking ones in your photo that almost looks like the shape of a peanut shell… those were the most delicious sun ripened, fresh off the bush tomatoes I’ve ever grown. I’m assuming that a store bought hybrid tomatoes I’ve seed reverted back to its parent plants.
I hope I get another one like that at some point! Good luck and have fun growing! 🙏🦋
gard3nwitch
Sometimes you get some weird genetics from volunteers. Maybe the cherry tomato cross bred with a different tomato and did this. Or the cherry was a hybrid and you got some weird genetics in the F2 generation.
Massive-Text647
I’d like to see what the plant looks like
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ProperKiwi2123
Looks like they got dry when small and half size then got a good ammt of consistent water.
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SouthWestSpicy
These look like the offspring of hybrid cherry tomato seeds. I ended up with a ton of volunteers that looked just like that once.
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MassNerderPunk
They look kinda like mini romas. They may have just been mislabeled
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speppers69
Those are possibly Juliet or Napa Grape tomatoes. Seeds from cherry tomatoes sometimes come up as different tomatoes. My last year’s Snow White cherry tomatoes seeded as Sungold cherry tomatoes this year. Not a Snow White in sight. And I truly didn’t need 6 Sungold tomato plants. I had Juliets and Grapes similarly shaped a couple years ago from volunteer plants in old pots that I didn’t plan on using. Came up on their own in spring so I kept them. They weren’t quite as long as yours are. But the flavor was decent. If you like them, maybe try saving some seeds for next year and maybe you’ll get lucky.
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Maybe they cross bred cherry tomato with a plum tomato like san marzano?
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Compost pile volunteers reverting to parent type plant, just a guess.
I don’t know what they are, but I had a volunteer tomato plant grow out of my compost two years ago. I threw at least four different varieties of tomatoes away in that compost through the previous year – all store bought.
I swear… this one plant has a stem that looked like five stems out together, and it grew three different types of tomatoes. It looked like one 1/4 of the bush grew the kind you have in your photo. Another 1/4 grew grape tomatoes, and the other half grew cherry tomatoes.
It was one plant… ginormous. I carefully trimmed it back at the end of the season to make sure it was not multiole plants growing together, and it was not. It was just the freakiest and thickest looking tomato vine stem I’ve ever seen, like a multi-fruit tree.
I can tell you that those funky looking ones in your photo that almost looks like the shape of a peanut shell… those were the most delicious sun ripened, fresh off the bush tomatoes I’ve ever grown. I’m assuming that a store bought hybrid tomatoes I’ve seed reverted back to its parent plants.
I hope I get another one like that at some point! Good luck and have fun growing! 🙏🦋
Sometimes you get some weird genetics from volunteers. Maybe the cherry tomato cross bred with a different tomato and did this. Or the cherry was a hybrid and you got some weird genetics in the F2 generation.
I’d like to see what the plant looks like
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Looks like they got dry when small and half size then got a good ammt of consistent water.
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These look like the offspring of hybrid cherry tomato seeds. I ended up with a ton of volunteers that looked just like that once.
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They look kinda like mini romas. They may have just been mislabeled
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Those are possibly Juliet or Napa Grape tomatoes. Seeds from cherry tomatoes sometimes come up as different tomatoes. My last year’s Snow White cherry tomatoes seeded as Sungold cherry tomatoes this year. Not a Snow White in sight. And I truly didn’t need 6 Sungold tomato plants. I had Juliets and Grapes similarly shaped a couple years ago from volunteer plants in old pots that I didn’t plan on using. Came up on their own in spring so I kept them. They weren’t quite as long as yours are. But the flavor was decent. If you like them, maybe try saving some seeds for next year and maybe you’ll get lucky.
Maybe they cross bred cherry tomato with a plum tomato like san marzano?
Cross-pollination