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Pennsylvania

If any of you don't know, that's what happens on a giant tomato when a fruit has multiple stigma and you essentially ge t a giant fruit that is made of a bunch of fused smaller fruits. Anyhow, can this occur in pumpkins? If it doesn't can they be bred to? I might be thinking out loud here, but I think this would work really well if you could pull it off. Basically all of a big zac tomato's (the really big kind of tomato)size is due to the fact that it is a bunch of fruit put together. This could be a massive pumpkin, considering I've heard of plants that supported over 1 ton of fruit. Think of all those fruits put together into one pumpkin.

4/23/2009 3:27:57 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Someone has posted some pictures in photogallery of 10 or so lobe deformed fused blooms. In tomatoes the megabloom is prized, in pumpkins they're... a symptom of ribbon vine it looks like. Probably won't go the distance.

4/24/2009 12:39:54 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Search for Siamese in the site search box. They never make it.

4/24/2009 7:50:45 AM