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Flowering tomato Marmande

Marie.morris3Marie.morris3 Posts: 5
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A large  flower has appeared at the top of the stem and the stem has stopped growing. Grown from seed ( I used last year's packet) this has happened to all the plants I moved onto larger pots. The plants are about 12 " high and quite healthy, but have this strange sunflower like flower straight on the top of the stem - Anybody have any ideas and should I cut it off?

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The beefsteak type of tomatoes often have double flowers - just fewer of them as they produce fewer but much bigger fruits.
    Or is it that there is no longer a growing tip of the plant? 

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Marie.morris3Marie.morris3 Posts: 5
    It's the latter, the growing tip has become a flower with normal flowers underneath. As I said I grew these successfully last year and got a good crop and the plants grew until about 4' high. This year they have stopped getting taller and produced the flower on the main shoot.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I've had the same on Rosella a few times. But fortunately there's been a spare side shoot to take over upward growth.
    Are there any side shotts you could left to produce a new growing top of the plant?

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    My Beefsteak F1 has done exactly the same thing and a Sungold that looks like it's heading the same way and possibly an Ailsa Craig.

    Like Pete says, look for a side shoot to promote as the new growing tip.


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