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Old August 13, 2015   #54
bower
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Wow, those are beautiful clusters of fruit.

I have some concern about the multiflora trait in my environment. The trouble is that every dropped blossom is a mold bomb when it's cold and wet.. or even warm and wet. Well some varieties really aren't susceptible and they don't make 'mold bombs', so for sure I would have to combine those traits to grow a multiflora successfully here.

Kapuler's Peacevine is one of the first OP's I grew here, great tomato but dropped many blossoms (not multiflora either but prolific) in the cold wet year we had, and they fell upon leaves and stems and it was a horrible mold fest.... My daily protocols for high risk weather are out of that experience, I do pick off any spent blossom I see and dispose it to prevent catastrophes.

Yet some varieties don't seem to attract botrytis grey mold at all, and just drop their harmless petals..... If not, multiflora would be very high maintenance for me.
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