Do your Rutgers blooms look like this?

*****

Addicted, there aren't that many differences in blossoms from variety to variety so it's impossible, really, to name a variety based just on the blossoms.

Some varieties, a few, have pale ivory blossoms, but even then, I couldn't say which variety b'c there's more than one variety with pale ivory blossoms.

And there are some varieties that have the multiflora trait, but again, more than one variety has that trait as well.

Carolyn

A2R,

I'm not sure what in particular is puzzling you about those blossoms. Is it because they're "furry" looking? Or is it because of that extra large one in the foreground? That's a double blossom or fused blossom. You can even see the two blossom stems fused together like twin tubes.

As far as Rutgers having many blossoms, mine do too this year. In fact, I'm seeing an unusually high number of blossoms on several of my different varieties this year.

And oh ... by the way ... there are a few different "strains" of Rutgers tomatoes.

Here's a picture of one I have growing in a container that even appears rather dwarfed and rugose. The picture was taken on Memorial Day when the plant had just started to flower.

I'll take a closer look at the Rutgers in my garden tomorrow to compare with the one in your photograph. If I find something interesting about the blossoms or "fuzziness" of the foliage, I'll post another picture.

Bill

I'm really sorry if my post seemed stupid, LOL!

Actually, I was referring to the fact that they have so many calyxes (is that what they are? I'm talking about the green things that connect the tomato to the stem) and the flowers are fuller than my other tomatoes. All of my other tomatoes have five, maybe six of those calyx things, while these plants have about twenty. And as I said in my original post, I'm not looking for somebody to tell me that this IS Rutgers, really. I know that positively identifying it based on a picture is impossible. But I thought that maybe since the blooms are so different than all my others, that maybe somebody could just tell me "Yes, my Rutgers has lots of calyxes and full flowers like that" or "No, my Rutgers flowers look just like all my other tomatoes, with five or six calyxes." Something like that. But I'm really sorry if I asked an unanswerable question.

I'm really sorry if my post seemed stupid, LOL!

*****

Addicted, your post wasn't stupid at all.

And please remember that the only stupid questions are those not asked. ( smile)

Carolyn

The kind of blossoms on your plant does not rule out their being Rutgers.

Here's a picture of some of my Ruters Blossoms, but I don't have any doubles:

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And here's a picture of some small tomatoes on the same plant:

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I suspect that any tomato can grow fused stems and blossoms, though some heirlooms are more apt to do it than others. My Brandy Boys often had fused stems/blossoms, and they're a hybrid.

It probably will not be any help in resolving anything in your mind (and I surely can not get a super clear close up like you did) but if I were to make an observation about my two Rutgers plants, it would be that there is nothing consistent about the number of blooms on a cluster. The first ones, lower on the plant seem to have more than the ones further up the plant.

had quite a few, whereas, there are not so many on . I do not think that it is all that common for the cluster of blooms to terminate with a leaf on the end, of if so, I have not noticed it and did not see any like that on the other varieties in my garden.

Six to ten blooms seems to be the

on most of the clusters on most plants. Perhaps I am wrong, that is just my hurried observations.
Bill P.