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Misshapen tomatoes

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The Marzano and Costoluto Fiorentino tomatoes grown in my greenhouse have produced weird clusters and shapes, will these fruits ripen and be suitable to eat?

I have also had blossom end rot on the Marzano.

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  • http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/DavidKnapper/DSCN0295.jpg

     

     

     Of course they're okay to eat, Patricia.

    This misshaping can get quite amusing at times. image

     

     

     

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Those shapes are completely normal for those varieties Patricia.  David's is a little unusual (as well as funny)! image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Is the 2nd photo supposed to be a Marzano, Patricia?  It's actually a Costoluto - did you get the labels mixed up like I often do? image

    That isn't BER on the 2nd one - that's just how Costaluto sometimes grow and I just slice that highly compressed bit off before cooking.  Some of the flowers are naturally malformed on that variety and the toms which develop from those have more of the compressed 'pleats' at the bottom.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • punicapunica Posts: 17

    When, in the fifties , I was employed on a farm in France as a number 6 garden assistant. I was put in charge of the Tomatoes in a prehistoric glass house.

    The " Madame" who consider all English people to be " a carbuncle on the backside of humanity" used to rebuke me for growing what she called  " cat faced rubbish."

    i did try to prove that they tasted better ( which they most certainly did) than her favoured Marmande types. But she would not have it. So I had to catch the next Garry back to Newhaven. Tant pis!

  • punicapunica Posts: 17

    Sorry, that should be the next Ferry not Gerry.

  • ItalophileItalophile Posts: 1,731

    The Costolutos are just heavily ribbed as they should be. "Costoluto" means ribbed in Italian. That's "cat facing" on the very bottom of a Costuluto in the second photo as punica alludes to above. It's akin to a hernia, a malformation caused by a hiccup in the pollination process. Just cut around it.

    Are they C. Fiorentina or C. Genovese, Patricia? They look like Genovese.

  • punicapunica Posts: 17

    Thank you very much Italophile for that most interesting and informative information.

    Very good advice.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Love that phrase 'cat-faced' - Purrfect description! image  Mine today - just beginning to turn colour.  Every fruit I've ever had from Costoluto Genovese has been 'cat faced':

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    Great flavour though! image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Vivi 31Vivi 31 Posts: 7

    I too have had mishappen tomatoes, but I still ate them yummy !!!! 

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