This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. A summer without Green Zebra deliciousness? Unthinkable. Certainly hope they taste like they should. It could wind up being that they are a natural hybrid. And so we await later fruits to see if it was the hormone spray, or there is something really odd with these particular 3 Green Zebra tomato plants. ![]() ![]() So far the few that have ripened tasted great and weren’t mealy inside.īut since I only applied this once, instead of repeatedly as the label suggests, by frost it will be clear what’s what here. Some say that it makes their tomatoes mealy, but that can be caused by other things like too much water and poor nutrition too. Not that they won’t be edible and just as tasty as without the extra boost. Your fruits could become deformed from what it does to the bloom – bypasses the need for pollination, which leads to them having very few seeds. Should you decide you need faster ripening tomatoes and grab the Tomato Blossom Set Spray – be forewarned. You’d think if it was going to make them grow weirdly, it would cause all of them or at least more of them to do this. He’s never seen Green Zebras do this either, but the kinetin hormone can cause this fluting of fruits, though it’s hard to say that this is the case here, because no other tomato plants out there have oddly shaped fruits. And while I was typing up all the details I could remember for him, I remembered the hormone spray. Okay… maybe some natural hybridization occurred during growing the seed last year? So, I call Johnny’s Seeds to inquire about this weirdness, which led to a tomato guru asking for more info and photos. I tried ‘fluted’ and ‘rippled’, and still got no results like I needed. Next I searched for ‘lumpy green zebra tomato fruits”. There is only one yellow and green striped tomato out there, so it’s not due to mistaken identity. ![]() They don’t look at all like Green Zebra tomatoes beyond the fruit color and markings. They’re all lumpy.” She grows them too, so is very familiar with these tomatoes too. “What’s wrong with them? They don’t look normal. Who gets suspicious of bigger than usual tomatoes? WHAT? They’re huge, and seem to be coming on rather early for this variety. Instead of commenting on their assets, she wanted to know what was wrong with the fruits. Now to see what happens when that first flush of blossoms and young fruits turn into ripe tomatoes.Ī few weeks later I was texting glam shots of my beautiful Green Zebras developing on the vine to a friend. There are 30 of them, representing at least 12 different kinds in various sizes and colors. So, I applied it to the blossoms and leaves around them on all my tomato plants. ![]() ”Nearly every blossom will produce larger, meatier, almost seedless tomatoes, ripening up to 3 weeks earlier. Sounds good to me, especially when you add what it says this stuff does on the Bonide website: On the back it tells you the product provides Biological Grow Power to promote blossom set and fruit development before it goes into the directions for application. Its best to read the whole label before applying anything you’re unfamiliar with, so I did and it says it also increases yields thanks to the cytokinan as kinetin. So I got home and abandoned the staking project for a while to go juice up the tomatoes with some ripening hormones. We’re in a hurry, all trying to beat early frosts. And so, I had to see if it works, because speeding up the time of harvesting tomatoes is something any Northern gardener will try. We just ran a Grubbycup article about the benefits of natural plant hormones in the Spring 2015 issue of the magazine: see US 6/UK 8. Really? What is this stuff? Aah plant hormones. The label caught my eye as I passed the shelf – it said: “Speeds Harvest”. On a trip to the hardware store for some bamboo stakes I stumbled onto something very intriguing… Tomato Blossom Set.
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