Hi all!

I planted seven different varieties of tomatoes this year:

1. Sungold - indeterminate cherry.
2. Green Grape - indeterminate, small-kiwi shaped fruit.
3. Matt's Wild Cherry
4. Kuralik - determinite cherry.
5. Mr. Stripey - indeterminate green with yellow stripes.
6. Sweet Million - indeterminate cherry.
7. Black Prince - indeterminate dark red-black fruit.

Of all of them, Sungold is the only one that's thriving. Black Prince
is living, but not fruiting anymore. Green Grape looks okay. The
rest have either died or are in the process of dying. The leaves
start curling up, then the veins get dark, then the leaves start
yellowing. The plant stops growing, then the whole thing kind of
wastes away.

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

If it helps, I live in the Seattle area.

Thanks!
OTM.

From:

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

If it helps, I live in the Seattle area.

It sometimes happens. Nothing to be comcerned about,

On 5 Sep 2003 18:50:46 -0700, (OTM) wrote:

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

If it helps, I live in the Seattle area.
------
OTM, I'm in New Jersey and have been growing tomatoes for
over 6 years now and only this year did I get 2 tomatoes from
2 different plants with one of those "horns". All my varieties are
different from the ones you posted so I don't think it's a particuar
type tomato. Only thing different this year is that we had lots of
rain early in the growing season relatively dry mid to late season.
I did very little watering this year as compared to previous years.
Other than that I don't know.

---pete---

writes:

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

My tomatoes have had that from time to time, usually the black varieties;
a Black Russian one year seemed especially prone to that. I can remember
an occasional one coming through on my grandparents' grown-for-market
beefsteak tomatoes in eastern Washington state. We kids called them
"noses" so we had tomato people. g

Glenna

In article ,
(---Pete---) wrote:

On 5 Sep 2003 18:50:46 -0700, (OTM) wrote:

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

If it helps, I live in the Seattle area.
------
OTM, I'm in New Jersey and have been growing tomatoes for
over 6 years now and only this year did I get 2 tomatoes from
2 different plants with one of those "horns". All my varieties are
different from the ones you posted so I don't think it's a particuar
type tomato. Only thing different this year is that we had lots of
rain early in the growing season relatively dry mid to late season.
I did very little watering this year as compared to previous years.
Other than that I don't know.

---pete---



I have often seen such projections on certain types of tomatoes.

OTM wrote:

Hi all!

I planted seven different varieties of tomatoes this year:

1. Sungold - indeterminate cherry.
2. Green Grape - indeterminate, small-kiwi shaped fruit.
3. Matt's Wild Cherry
4. Kuralik - determinite cherry.
5. Mr. Stripey - indeterminate green with yellow stripes.
6. Sweet Million - indeterminate cherry.
7. Black Prince - indeterminate dark red-black fruit.

Of all of them, Sungold is the only one that's thriving. Black Prince
is living, but not fruiting anymore. Green Grape looks okay. The
rest have either died or are in the process of dying. The leaves
start curling up, then the veins get dark, then the leaves start
yellowing. The plant stops growing, then the whole thing kind of
wastes away.

You might google for "tomato diseases" and see if you can't find a picture
of exactly what the problem is.


My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

'normal' mutation ... nothing to be concerened about.


If it helps, I live in the Seattle area.

Thanks!
OTM.

I don't know if it helps to be in Seattle or not ... but it sounds worth
trying.


Bill
--
Zone 8b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.

in article , Noydb at
wrote on 9/7/03 12:55 PM:

My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?

I have had growths on tomatoes that that look more phallic than horny. I
don't know if that is what you mean. One year, I had many of them.

I also one purchased a fuyu that looked very pregnant and had giant breasts.
If anyone is interested, I believe that I can find a photo in my archives.

Bill

Repeating Decimal wrote:

in article , Noydb at
wrote on 9/7/03 12:55 PM:


My concern is with the Black Prince tomatoes. A few of the fruit have
a horn-shaped projection sticking out of them. They literally look
like they sprouted a horn from the skin of the tomato. Does anyone
know what this is?


I have had growths on tomatoes that that look more phallic than horny. I
don't know if that is what you mean. One year, I had many of them.

I also one purchased a fuyu that looked very pregnant and had giant breasts.
If anyone is interested, I believe that I can find a photo in my archives.

I got some really strange growths one year, like giant warts on my
maters. Looks like it was from using a fertilizer I inadvertantly used
on them, a weed-n-feed type of stuff. They looked like they came from
an episode of Star Trek. Gross as hell looking!