Tomato tree set the world’s most “lucky” record, carrying 1,269 fruits while hanging on a small body

Douglas Smith is an information technology engineer, but at the same time considered a skilled farmer and extremely dedicated, from Stanstead Abbotts, County Hertfordshire (UK). Douglas has a passion for giant fruit trees. Therefore, he has not stopped breaking world records and himself with impressive numbers.

Most recently, Douglas Smith was posted on the website of the Guinness World Records organization with an article about a remarkable achievement: Growing the world’s “luckiest” tomato tree – for 1,269 fruits.

In September 2021, Douglas harvested a small but fruit-laden tomato plant. He counted a total of more than 1,200 fruits. This number broke the record set by Douglas himself with 839 tomatoes he had harvested a few weeks earlier.

The previous record was a tomato plant with 488 fruits. This record number was not broken for more than 10 years before Douglas planted a tomato plant that produced 839 golden fruits.

“After breaking the UK record for largest tomato in 2020, with a single tomato weighing 3,106kg, I have set myself a new challenge for 2021,” Douglas said when registering for the record. this continent.

However, the giant tomato of Douglas still cannot surpass the heaviest tomato in the world at 4,896 kg. It was planted by Dan Sutherland (American) in 2020.

In 2020, Douglas Smith won the record for growing Britain’s largest tomato.

Douglas Smith with a 283kg pumpkin he planted in 2014.

Not content with only setting specific records in the UK, the information technology director Douglas has sought to have impressive agricultural products in a different way. He has researched many scientific papers and even taken soil samples for laboratory testing. This allows you to tweak the recipe until you like it.

The record-breaking tomato plant with more than 1,200 fruits is grown in a greenhouse in Douglas’s back garden. He spends up to 4 hours a week taking care of it. The counting of tomatoes is done transparently by another gardener.

“The tomatoes are stacked on trays, each containing 100 tomatoes,” explains Douglas.

Matthew Oliver, a gardener, carefully counted Douglas Smith’s tomatoes.

According to The Insider, before that, in 2020, Douglas appeared in many newspapers in the UK with a towering sunflower.

Specifically, this sunflower tree is up to 6m tall. However, it is still not able to break the record compared to the 9.17m tall sunflower, planted by Hans-Peter Schiffer (in Germany) in 2014.

Douglas told the BBC he “likes to do small experiments with huge vegetables and crops”.

This year, Douglas is growing peas, eggplants and potatoes.

Source: Guinnessworldrecords, The Insider