# Tomato plants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomato-plants/969498>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** gardening\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomato-plants/969498 "2022-08-11T16:01:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomato-plants/969498/21 "2022-08-25T14:19:01Z")

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Who knew this thread would devolve into using electric toothbrushes on sex organs.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomato-plants/969498/22 "2022-08-25T15:12:49Z")

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When we were both in the catio yesterday, I said to the tomato plants, ‘Hurry up and grow! We want to eat your reproductive organs!’

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomato-plants/969498/23 "2022-09-08T14:34:18Z")

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Over the weekend we ate three tomatoes from the small plant. The smallest was the size of a cherry tomato, and the largest was under two inches. They were very tasty; sweet, and not a lot of pulp.

The larger plant has tomatoes shaped like little pumpkins or some other squash. I don’t know the variety. None of those are ripe. We’re starting to get little tomatoes (three or four) at the top, where I went over the blossoms with the electric toothbrush. There are still a fair amount of flowers. The wind blew the plant over twice yesterday. I put bricks around the pot.

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