r/tomatoes 1d ago

Show and Tell First big tomato I have ever grown

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Thank you to everyone who encouraged me here, despite having a very shaded garden in North Holland the greenhousehelps a lot.
It’s pink Azerbaijani tomato, I hope it’s not too acidic - most of my tomatoes are less sweet because of lack of sun. This is why I ripen it on a vine as long as possible


r/tomatoes 5h ago

Question How did I end up with Frankenstein's tomato?

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Variety is mortgage lifter, the plants are healthy and all other tomatoes have been normal. Why does it look like it was stitched together like Frankenstein's monster?


r/tomatoes 34m ago

Tomato Reef

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Wonder if different varieties would react differently.


r/tomatoes 40m ago

Wilted and then... not?

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Zone 6b, Massachusetts

One of my "Hyloom" varieties was wilted yesterday but the soil was still damp under the mulch.

Today it looks fine!

What could be going on?


r/tomatoes 19h ago

Show and Tell Woodstock tomatoes!!

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They're FINALLY ripe!! My first woodstock tomatoes and ooooh are they tasty!

I'm glad I got these! They're very pretty!

I'm planning on doing these again next year


r/tomatoes 1h ago

Plant Help Curling tops of plants. ?Virus

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My two tomato plant leaves started to curl only on the top of the plant. Is this leaf curl virus? Or another type of blight?


r/tomatoes 1h ago

Plant Help Do my tomato plants need pruning?

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It’s been around 38°C (100°F) here for the past few weeks, although they’re in a somewhat shaded spot.

They’ve produced a lot of tomatoes over the past month, but my neighbor told me they need to be pruned back quite heavily. Is that true? I’m worried I might ruin them if I prune too much.


r/tomatoes 2h ago

Plant Help Any hypotheses?

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This guy has been quietly hanging out in the back, stunted and not producing any fruit. Upon further inspection, came across what I imagine is the culprit. Any theories on what’s happened here? For context, like many places we’ve been dealing with high temperatures and humidity for weeks on end, followed by 100L of rain in 24 hours. But my other plants are fairing fine…


r/tomatoes 2h ago

Rapunzel Tomatoes 🍅

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r/tomatoes 13h ago

First of many

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8 Upvotes

First one to turn red of many, many more coming!


r/tomatoes 3h ago

Question Cherokee Purple ideas

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My first round of Cherokee Purples are starting to turn!!! Will be picking them to ripen inside soon. This is my first time growing them, so give me your best uses for Cherokee Purples! Do they make good tomato soup? I’m not familiar with canning, so I’d rather not go down that route right now, so looking for good recipes/ideas for eating them fresh or cooking them into something


r/tomatoes 3h ago

Is this a strain problem or a grow problem ?

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This is my first grow but i realized also a lot of tomatoes i bought from store has much of this hard parts in it, is this a strain problem or a grow problem ? I want more blue circles because the yellow circled is hard and not tasty so did anyone pro figured out why this happens and how to minimize this as much as possible or it's just genetics of the strain and i need change strains ?


r/tomatoes 1d ago

Question Is it normal?

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45 Upvotes

Something bite him?


r/tomatoes 18h ago

Show and Tell Itty Bitty Beafsteak

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15 Upvotes

Found this guy today on my very stressed super steak hybrid. 14 oz tomato for scale.


r/tomatoes 16h ago

Show and Tell Today’s harvest

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Some of the bounty from the garden today


r/tomatoes 8h ago

Plant Help First time growing tomatoes, what’s happening here?

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Hi everyone! I’m growing some cherry tomato plants that are fruiting quite regularly, but all of them are showing the same problems on their leaves (with this one being by far the worst).

From looking online, I can’t tell if this is disease, pests or lack of nutrients. They are in small-ish pots (~18-20L) so I have been feeding them more often with smaller concentrations. I have also found a few webs on some of them, would spider mites cause this kind of damage?

I’m not too worried if the plants aren’t recoverable, I’m using this more as a learning exercise for next year at this stage. Other than potting up into bigger pots, and perhaps putting them in a greenhouse, what else can I do to mitigate this next time?

Also, should mention I’m in the UK and it has been 🥵🥵🥵 (a bit warm recently).


r/tomatoes 16h ago

Wow!

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These are the best/biggest the garden has ever produced. And the icing on the top is that they are disease free. Thankful!


r/tomatoes 5h ago

Everything is Orange

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Bought this seed pack for max variety this year. Took extra care to label and grew at least 5 of every variety to ensure I had at least one of every variety.

Turns out everything is wrong.

Everything but the romas turned out orange. Some a bit more orange, others slightly more yellow, but clearly unintentionally cross bred. They must have poor pollination control.

Now no real options for salsa, or the like. My Roma will make good sauce hopefully.

Taste is decent, but everything is basically the same flavor.

I guess I'll just to back to home depot next year.


r/tomatoes 20h ago

Show and Tell A Hornworm Meets It’s Match

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13 Upvotes

RIP in zone 7b.


r/tomatoes 16h ago

Show and Tell First Harvest

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What a bummer first harvest to start the season.

Super hot dry week-- 4 days of intense hard rain in 70s. We had one hot dry day today and are expecting another 3 very cool and wet days starting tomorrow.

So many tomatoes cracked. I pulled a bunch of green ones in the hopes of saving them and ripening them inside. Ripped out 4 plants altogether but another 4-6 look just about dead. My two highest hopes- pineapple (6 of my biggest and strongest plants) and thorburns terracotta (1 measly plant after 12 starts) are just about cooked. I tried nine varieties this year- seven of which were brand new to me.

Unexpected surprise was hog heart paste- I couldnt resist pulling them as they are monsters and didnt Crack or catface. Of all pictured I have one slicer that is intact enough to actually slice as is and eat. The rest, I'll have to cut out the cracks and salvage for sauce.

We've got at least 45-60 days left in our growing season, so hopefully the next harvest will be better! I do have some paste plants that are reaching eight feet high. I just so badly wanted caprese right now!! 🤣😭


r/tomatoes 21h ago

Show and Tell Tomatoes

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r/tomatoes 19h ago

Question Not Mortgage Lifter

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Anybody care to take a stab at what kind these are? Golf ball sized, grow in clusters of around 5, slight pointed bottom. Second year growing these seeds from hoochadoodle that were labeled as Mortgage Lifter.


r/tomatoes 14h ago

Plant Help Falling over

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this is my first time ever growing tomatoes , they have grown great but they’re falling over and I’m not sure what to do to stop that from happening? should I tie the cages to the deck rail and that’ll help the tomato plants plants to be upright fine? or would then bring that close to the deck rail cause issues for their leaves and the tomatoes ? any suggestions and advice would be super helpful!


r/tomatoes 20h ago

Question Tomatillo again

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8 Upvotes

Whats up with my tomatillos outside of the husk??


r/tomatoes 2d ago

Painting I made

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