Topic: Conjoined loganberries

[jennym]

One of my fellow allotmenteers and I have noticed that this year we are getting a lot of 'double' loganberries, like siamese twinns, or conjoined, or whatever the correct phrase is. I suppose it's to do with imperfect fertilisation, or super-perfect fertilisation - we had a cold snap very late here, just when the flowers were out. Has anyone else in the country had this?

[Mrs Ava]

Had a few rasps like that, and a couple of courgettes have done the same.  We are in sunny Essex also.  ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

What have you lot got in your water up there?? ;D  ;D  ;D

[Palustris]

The word is fasciated from the latin for a bundle of twigs. The normal cause is some form of mechanical damage. In this case dryness perhaps when the flowers were forming, but it could be insect or almost anything else. They normally return to proper shape and size next year.

[redimp]

It is also the origin of the word fascist  :(

[jennym]

Pakustris - No. They aren't fasciated. they are exactly the correct shape, but there are two fruits joined together.

Doris-pinks - Water, don't mention it! some idiot broke the tap on the water tank on the site and I spent most of yesterday in the boiling hot sun fixing it. I'm no plumber.

[giantseye]

I'VE HAD QUITE A FEW RASPBERRIES LIKE THAT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

....THEY STILL TASTE LOVELY THOUGH

[adrianhumph]

Hi all, :D
             Well, all this conjoined fruit is very interesting, ;D but has any one else got conjoined sunflowers ??? . I have two back to back sharing the same stem. This is my first go at sunflowers so I do not know if this is unusual or not.  The variety is pastiche, 
                  Adrian.