Look what I found

Barb_FL · May 29, 2017

It's end of season here in Florida; none of the big fruited plants are setting fruit due to night time low temps in the mid 70s. As I was removing over ripe and split tomatoes from one of my plants, I found this on the pool deck.

I then peeled away the skin shell and the tomatoes were super root bound; not sure if you can see, but some of them actually have a true set of leaves.

I have never seen anything like this; usually if I don't pick a ripe tomato it rots, it splits and bugs (fruit flies) attack.

I wish I had a picture taken of the skin shelled removed.

wildcat62 · May 29, 2017

Never saw anything like that before

ginger2778 · May 29, 2017

Way cool! Gonna try to grow any?

AlittleSalt · May 29, 2017

It is called Vivipary. It happened to an Early Girl tomato years ago for us. It is very weird to see.

jillian · May 29, 2017

WOW! Super cool.

PhilaGardener · May 29, 2017

Cute pot!

Worth1 · May 29, 2017

Gruesome.
Worth

dmforcier · May 29, 2017

What variety?

greenthumbomaha · May 29, 2017

Oy vey! That's a lot of seedlings in one weird tomato.

bower · May 29, 2017

That's amazing!!!

Ricky Shaw · May 29, 2017

Alien creepy almost. In the movie people would eat tomatoes from these and first notice armpit hair sprouting, then eyebrows and head hair. It spreads and the world is overrun by walking chia pets marauding for fertilizer.

kurt · May 29, 2017

It's natures way of replenishing its own self.The placenta of the mater will have enough water ,nutrient,and its own self for food.Usually only one will survive,after falling ,rolling,buried,frozen(up there��).Rolling into a stream is nice also.Used to save them,not enough time.OVERNIGHT LOWS HERE ARE 80 85,90 95 day time ,no rain we are packing up and heading up there.

May 29, 2017	#8
dmforcier Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,825	What variety? __________________ Stupidity got us into this mess. Why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers

May 29, 2017	#12
kurt Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl. Posts: 2,488	It's natures way of replenishing its own self.The placenta of the mater will have enough water ,nutrient,and its own self for food.Usually only one will survive,after falling ,rolling,buried,frozen(up there��).Rolling into a stream is nice also.Used to save them,not enough time.OVERNIGHT LOWS HERE ARE 80 85,90 95 day time ,no rain we are packing up and heading up there. __________________ KURT

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May 29, 2017	#2
wildcat62 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2014 Location: Zone 6 Northern Kentucky Posts: 1,094	Never saw anything like that before

May 29, 2017	#3
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	Way cool! Gonna try to grow any?

May 29, 2017	#4
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	It is called Vivipary. It happened to an Early Girl tomato years ago for us. It is very weird to see.

May 29, 2017	#5
jillian Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: North Carolina Posts: 880	WOW! Super cool.

May 29, 2017	#6
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	Cute pot!

May 29, 2017	#7
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Gruesome. Worth

May 29, 2017	#9
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	Oy vey! That's a lot of seedlings in one weird tomato.

May 29, 2017	#10
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,793	That's amazing!!!

May 29, 2017	#11
Ricky Shaw Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Zone 6a Denver North Metro Posts: 1,910	Alien creepy almost. In the movie people would eat tomatoes from these and first notice armpit hair sprouting, then eyebrows and head hair. It spreads and the world is overrun by walking chia pets marauding for fertilizer.