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    Forking Tomatoes - 2012

    That caught your eye, didn't it! I was going to write Bifurcating but couldn't spell it!!
    One of my donated tomatoes (thank you VVG), Costoluto Fiorentino, has forked at the top. Should I leave it or take out one of the forks? If I leave it and treat it as a bush tomato, should I also leave the sideshoots to grow on instead of nipping them out?
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    I read something somewhere about this happening to someone and he treated each of the 2 branches as separate tomato plants and was quite successful with it.

    Mind, I am a newb.

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    • #3
      Think I would do as Ashkat suggests. Nip out the other sideshoots though.

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      • #4
        Damn it you've got two for the price of one, are we good or what
        Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

        Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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        • #5
          VVG, You're their Mummy, what do I do now?

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          • #6
            Yes but you're their adopted, I was just the surrogate Can I say I was so pleased to get rid of some of my tomato kids. Thank you for taking them in xxx

            PS...totally unrelated but the turmeric roots have gone into compost. I spread half the joy elsewhere too
            Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

            Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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            • #7
              Apart from this wayward Costoluto they're being very well behaved! You taught them good manners!
              Thanks for reminding about the turmeric - mine's still waiting I'll do it now, this minute - Byeeee!

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              • #8
                I usually allow (OK, find I have) two, three, four serious branches in my indeterminates. I don't think this is a problem.
                Garden Grower
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                • #9
                  I thought Cost. F toms were bush toms anyway ......
                  S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                  a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                  You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    Apart from this wayward Costoluto they're being very well behaved! You taught them good manners!
                    Thanks for reminding about the turmeric - mine's still waiting I'll do it now, this minute - Byeeee!
                    You're welcome! I'll go and take a look at my costoluto f. and see what it's doing
                    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                    Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                    • #11
                      Hope he's behaving himself
                      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                        Hope he's behaving himself
                        Who? Costa F or my other norty boy? He is behaving I keep him busy and out of trouble
                        Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                        Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                          I thought Cost. F toms were bush toms anyway ......
                          I think they're a semi determinate ie can't make up their mind - that's what I've always found in the past when I've grown them anyway.

                          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                          • #14
                            I've found these types often fork. My black krim always do and I think the Costs do too. I just leave them to it.

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                            • #15
                              My Stupice and Armish Paste are doing this but only in one part of the tunnel so maybe there is a bit of an environmental effect, too. The ones that are doing it are in what is the windier corner when the door is open and probaly the coolest corner. The Ruby that is in among them isn't doing this.

                              Thanks for the thread VC, I was thinking I must have done something wrong!
                              Last edited by marchogaeth; 31-05-2012, 09:39 PM.
                              "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

                              PS. I just don't have enough time to say hello to everyone as they join so please take this as a delighted to see you here!

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