Question,

how many tomatoes can you grow from one plant?

my own thought was say 5 trusses with 20 tomatoes on each, so around 100 or so, boy was I wrong! meet Douglas Smith, a gardener from Hertfordshire, UK. who decide to break the Guinness World Record of how many tomatoes could be grown from one stem, up until last summer, the record for most tomatoes grown on a single stem had stood unchallenged for over a decade. Then the English farmer Douglas Smith set his sights on breaking it, thinking that he could grow more than 488 fruits on a single stem, so you can see how wrong I was with my maybe 100 guess! and last year he managed to obliterate the old record by growing 839 tomatoes on a greenhouse-grown plant,

 Douglas Smith is an obsessed horticulturist. He spends up to four hours a day in his back garden tending to his plants, to maximize his chances of setting a new world record, Smith read various scientific papers and even took soil samples to be tested in a laboratory, “I am over the moon,” Douglas said. “This year was only meant to be an experimental year to see which varieties would produce the most fruit and we had to contend with early blight, which put paid to a number of other tomato plants. I’m amazed by how many tomatoes were on the plant in the end.” and what is the new world record? no less than 1,269 tomatoes on a single stem! as it happens growing 1,269 tomatoes on a single stem is only Douglas Smith’s latest achievement. In 2020, he grew a 20-foot-tall sunflower, and also set a new national record for the heaviest tomato, with a 3.106kg (6.85lb) tomato. He he “likes to run little experiments with other giant veg and giant crops,” and he is currently experimenting with peas, aubergines and potatoes, amazing!