Oddly behaving tomato

[Canny Grower]

I am growing a new variety of tomato, Mountain Magic. I've been removing sideshoots from the leaf joints as they appear but now I've found something I've never seen before.
There are sprouts appearing from the leaves. I have two plants and they are both behaving in the same way.
Does anyone else have experience of this? Any suggestions as to whether I should remove the sprouts/ leave them alone/ trim the leaves?
Since I have two plants I might try leaving one alone and pruning the other. What do you think?

[Thelma Sanders]

That's not unusual, some of mine are turning up and shooting from the ends of the flower trusses, this year

I just nip off anything that grows where I don't want it/in the wrong place.

The trouble with yours is how to support them if they flower and fruit on those stems

[Penellype]

I agree, I'd remove them. I'd better go and check my Mountain Magic - its time I took the sideshoots off again...

[BUFFS]

I agree with the above but it's a strange year, one tomato , an italian plum type, has 9 trusses fruiting and is still soaring along the apex of the greenhouse, showing no signs of slowing down and has 5 trusses along the top in flower, weird, and we are not even getting good weather, its cool, dark, and wet, what passes for summer around here, last weeks night time temps were higher than any of the last 5 daytime temps...

[skeggijon]

I have the same thing happening with my mountain magic, but also with my gardeners delight, tigerella and indigo rose. It seems to have been much more prevalent this year.

[Nicos]

Gosh!...I've never seen that before!
Interesting!

[Bigmallly]

Triffids are taking over the world....................

[Canny Grower]

I'm glad you said that, Nicos. I was beginning to think I was the only one.

[Canny Grower]

Skeggijon, I have Gardeners' Delight right next to the Mountain Magic but they are fine. My Sweet Million are perfectly normal too. That's why I thought it must be something specific to Mountain Magic rather than the conditions in the greenhouse.

[Penellype]

I've not seen tomato shoots growing from leaf veins before but it doesn't greatly surprise me as tomatoes propagate very easily and what you are seeing is not at all dissimilar to propagating geraniums from leaf cuttings.

I've got leaves growing from the flower trusses on my Ferline tomatoes, and its not unusual for Shirley to produce a shoot at the end of a flower truss - I nip these off otherwise they get too heavy.

[skeggijon]

I have super marmande next to my gardeners delight and they're fine too. I'm growing 12 different varieties this year, but only a few of them are affected.

[ConfusedRhubarb]

I had this too on Mountain Magic, very odd.

Also having the flowers trusses with leaves (and more stem and then more flower buds) growing too, this year it's Black Krim and Sungold that are the main offenders. Got used to it last year when Ferline did it with every truss, couple of them got away from me, with several trusses of swollen fruit before I noticed so I stuck an extra stake in and hey Presto- accidental double cordons which I was glad of when blight took out the other outdoor tomatoes.

Main tomato weirdness for me this year is bandq: their Gardener's delights turning into plum toms, and both those and the bnq Shirley keep growing blind. I'm trying to keep the plants growing upwards by using sideshoots but the plants are stiff and reluctant to bend and even the sideshoots keep going blind. What was a challenge at first is getting tedious now, damn you bandq.

[w33blegurl]

I've also had this, but it's not Mountain Magic...I think its on the marmande (I'd have to check though!!). Also had a couple of other plants (another variety still) that have hit the top of the blowaway before they even started flowering! The toms that are coming do look good though so, encouraging...

[solanaceae]

I am growing a new variety of tomato, Mountain Magic. I've been removing sideshoots from the leaf joints as they appear but now I've found something I've never seen before.
There are sprouts appearing from the leaves. I have two plants and they are both behaving in the same way.
Does anyone else have experience of this? Any suggestions as to whether I should remove the sprouts/ leave them alone/ trim the leaves?
Since I have two plants I might try leaving one alone and pruning the other. What do you think?
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That's bizarre. I've seen stems extend at the end of a truss happen occasionally, but never anything like yours.