I'm getting a much better harvest than normal. I tried new new varieties this year and they are all being very productive. I have no idea why...

I only grow cherry tomatoes, but I've been getting very good flower set and harvest.

Our harvest really sucked this summer! We planted several Cherry Tomato plants and only 2 gave tomatoes. And Im talking some very little (the size of raisinettes) ones, only 2 were the size of actual Cherry tomatoes.

It is our 1st time so perhaps we did something wrong or maybe the plant need to mature more?

Tomatoes don't set fruit when it gets too hot. It was VERY hot in the San Fernando/LA region (at least) early on. And that's about when the first blossoms would have been out. This might be the reason. You might have to wait for the cooler Fall weather for tomatoes.

Westelle, thanks so much for your comment. They were actually my daughter's first veggie plantings and now I know what to tell her. She still picked them off so tiny and ate them all happily.

It certainly was hotter in June than it's been in July this year, thats for sure.

I was gonna pull them out, but now that you mention it, Here's to the fall! (hopefully)

I'm having the same problem, and I'm sure it is because of the weather. In the spring we had wild swings in temperatures which caused a lot of blossom drop. Then we had freak triple digit temperatures a few weeks ago, and once again, more blossom drop. Now that the weather has stablized, my tomatoes are doing better. But as a whole, total production is down for this year.

The weather has been pretty steady in West Adams, low to mid 80's. There was 1 heat wave, but that was weeks ago, and the only tomatoes I got did set after that. So I don't think it's weather related.

Are you getting a lot of growth and no flowers, or is the fruit just not setting?

Just to throw my two-cents worth in, I have a Pruden's Purple that has blossomed sporadically, but the blossoms have all dried up and fell off. The Black Sea Man and the Miracle Sweet, which are right next to it, have done just fine. Go figure.

There are flowers, but they either die before opening or do open for awhile and then fall off. There are lots of bees, and for awhile lots of tomatoes. I added more compost and fertilized again (organic fertilizer). Everything is the same as it's always been, so I'm completely at a loss to understand what's going on.

Hmmm...too much water and fertilizer?? A little stress does them good. I never fertilize mine. They get compost and nothing else.

And your nighttime temps have been below 65F?

Sometimes I wonder if it is just the plant. I'll have 3 plants of the same variety, 2 will produce a lot, 1 will produce nothing.

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I agree with Hoovb, don't fertilize a flowering tomato. I probably wouldn't even add compost.

I read that you can plant tomatoes in the same spot every year if you add a lot of compost--supposedly the compost reduces the amount of tomato-attacking microbes in the soil--something like that. Hence the compost. It doesn't appear to have hurt.

Hoovb, we have had very cool nights lately. (Not that I'm complaining. Our house doesn't have air-conditioning, so the weather has been a dream.) So cool nights will prevent fertilization? Interesting.

Try adding Dolomite (horticultural lime) to your beds next season, a few weeks prior to planting.

"Try adding Dolomite (horticultural lime) to your beds next season, a few weeks prior to planting."

That's sounds like strange advice to me. Why do you suggest that Gonzer? LA soils tend to have plenty of lime and clay and tomatoes prefer just slighty acidic soils. His plants grew and produced flowers, but didn't set fruit, so how will dolomite rectify that situation?