Forking Tomatoes - 2012

[veggiechicken]

I must have at least 4 varieties that are at it! I'll make a note tomorrow and see whether you have the same ones.

[binley100]

ooooookay.........the forking toms are .....cuoer di beu, snow white, monkeys ass and the four way fork culprit is purple cherokee. Each branch on the purple cherokee is behaving as a vine tom with the flowers and then growing on .......

[Thelma Sanders]

Good luck tying the PC up to canes then!
That's the one that tried misbehaving for me

[binley100]

Well I'm not complaining if I get 4 times the toms

[veggiechicken]

I forgot!!! Sorry. I know Coeur di Bue and Costoleto thingamebob are doing it.
Here, in my other greenhouse with only 3 varieties, Black Krim is forking all over the place.

[binley100]

Sound to me like Black Krim is a bit of a wild one .........

[veggiechicken]

Totally uncontrollable!! A bit like me really

[Acanthus]

And I was going to put pics up of my pink brandy wine and Cherokee yesterday except that my camera card seems corrupted, couldn't save the compressed files. Anyway, I have lots of forks too!
But worryingly, some suspicious looking curled hard leaves and a bit of yellowing on a couple of plants.......please don't let it be blight.

[Leeds_lad]

here is the worse of mine, a few have done it but not as bad as this. The variety is "Brad's Black Heart" and it seems to have forked about 6 times.

[Thelma Sanders]

I'm wondering as some of these pics look susspiciously alike.

Just a thought - are people pinching out the wrong bit at the top, by mistake, causing more branches to grow?

When there's a cluster of growth at the top it's easy to pinch the wrong bit out.....it's easier if you wait a little while till it's clear which bit is which

[Leeds_lad]

I'm wondering as some of these pics look susspiciously alike.

Just a thought - are people pinching out the wrong bit at the top, by mistake, causing more branches to grow?

When there's a cluster of growth at the top it's easy to pinch the wrong bit out.....it's easier if you wait a little while till it's clear which bit is which

I don't pinch out the growing tips until I get 4-5 trusses outside and 7 inside =) They are no where near this right now =p

[veggiechicken]

I haven't pinched out anything at the top, just a few armpits as necessary.

[binley100]

I don't touch the top until it's totally unavoidable ........ie I'd have to remove the gh roof. .......

[Thelma Sanders]

oh! ok then just that sometimes it's easy to pinch out the leader thinking it looks like an armpit shoot.

I'll forgive you all then

[Pa Snips]

A couple of my Alicante toms have forked and interestingly, though very slightly off topic, one of my California Wonder peppers forked at the seed leaves!