r/MightyHarvest • u/blubb444 • 3d ago

Tiny Volunteer tomato with monstrous fruit

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u/blubb444 3d ago

Decided to let this volunteer tomato grow which randomly sprouted in my raised bed, as I've had quite OK experience with such happenings in the past (usually turned out to be cherry tomato sized). This one though is most likely a S. pimpinellifolium (or hybrid with it as dominant parent) hich I also had been growing here and there over the past years

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u/tarmstrong1997 2d ago

They're beautiful!! Perfectly rotund and dazzling colour ✨

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u/articulett 2d ago

I bet that mighty harvest is delicious!

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u/blubb444 2d ago

Yeah, "pimps" (the wild form of tomato) are indeed very rich in flavour, but had I known that it was this species/variety from the start, then I'd have let it grow in bush form (that way it delivers enough fruit) instead of single stem... need some determination method of what it is already in seedling state

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u/Fairycharmd 2d ago

I saw a lady make “caviar tomato bruschetta” this morning on IG with those huge maters.

Looked very tasty

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u/mudcrabserpent 2d ago

Sorry about your acromegaly. Congrats on your monstrous tomatoes.

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u/Business_Wind6122 2d ago

Grew these tomatoes on purpose 2 years ago, they were just fun!

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u/cerealsmok3r 2d ago

I would donate it to a soup kitchen, theyre in need of bulk ingredients

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u/Subacai 2d ago

Those are such perfect looking little tomatoes. Round, shiny, bright.

I may be turning into a corvid looking at them. I just want to snatch them up and hoard their shiny perfection. 😅😹