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Central NY

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=259645
...I started to slurrrr a little when I saw this baby...what the prognosis with Ribbin vines?...

7/5/2016 9:29:31 PM

Wixom MI.

Nice flower Garden Rebel, i must have close to 10 flowers like that right now and my first one was a successful pollination !!! i sure hope these ribbon stem flowers become successful. with these flowers you sometimes only get a partial pollination.

7/5/2016 10:35:26 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

Thank you. The ribbon vine looks like several single round vines fused together. It grew out of a sucker near the bottom and I made it the main. All I can do is keep it dry and toothbrush it daily as flowers open. There is some cooler rainy weather for a few days coming up so I need to build something over it. Great job on your garden Chris! Your plants look great. Hope you grow something big.

7/6/2016 12:57:36 AM

Mn

Nice rebel! Will be fun to watch and don't feel bad about naming your plants. Some of the coolest people in the growing community do it :)

7/6/2016 8:33:09 AM

Mn

Coolest or douchiest- just depends who you ask - lol - just named another tomato "dave" hahahaha

7/6/2016 8:36:15 AM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Those three vines may end up being just that, three tomatoes whose skin is not conjoined and thus not a single tomato. Watch closely to see if you have three tomatoes or one really big one.

7/6/2016 1:49:54 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

Thanks Marv. Didn't consider that. I did some closer investigation on the vine close to the flower. Also, have another ribbon vine bloom on a Big Zac F-7 that splits into two haves that when it is all said and done, won't count but pretty cool otherwise. Posted some pics and should be up soon.

7/6/2016 4:04:43 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Stay tuned. You may just have a big one on the way. Watch as the tomatoes form. Hope it gets fertilized for you and produces what you are looking for, a really big tomato.

7/7/2016 12:10:01 AM