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ThirtySomething · 07-23-2008, 11:17 AM

Uggg....

I have beautiful plants, beautiful blooms, and no tomatoes.

They weather has been typical, and they are getting adequate water. I did get a late start this year. They were only planted in early June. Normally, I have planted any by early May.

Why is this happening? The plants are full of blooms, but don't become tomatoes.

I have some flowers for cross-polination, but have only seen one or two bees around.

Kbsmama · 07-23-2008, 12:02 PM

Mine did this last year; they actually even had lots of fruit on them that seemed to take forever to ripen. We didn't get ripe tomatoes until nearly September, it seems.

Have you trimmed them on top? You're supposed to prune them so that they will stop growing up and focus on fruiting.

mamabear · 07-25-2008, 08:59 AM

Yeah I'd try pruning - but I prune the bottom leaves, right up to the leaf under the first blossom, if that makes sense.

Also can you get some Bloom Juice or other organic fertilizer? I'm not against helping Mother Nature along a little bit.

ThirtySomething · 07-25-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by mamabear

Yeah I'd try pruning - but I prune the bottom leaves, right up to the leaf under the first blossom, if that makes sense.

Also can you get some Bloom Juice or other organic fertilizer? I'm not against helping Mother Nature along a little bit.

nak

from the bottom? they will look more like topiaries? I can do that.
I put organic steer manure under them about a week ago.

mamabear · 07-25-2008, 02:46 PM

They might just need more time!

Here is what I used as a guide for pruning. It is just one method. I think I overdid it with some of my cherry tomatoes - I read later that cherry tomatoes shouldn't be pruned at all. It seems there are as many opinions as there are tomato varieties!

Pruning Tomatoes - Fine Gardening Article