at 82deg or so tomatoes wont set fruit, but if it flowered. i say be patient and plenty of sun hope it helps you

I wish I could grow tomatoes, but I have constant leaf miner problems with tomatoes and can not find a way to get rid of the problem. I've given up. I'm glad that someone can grow them without the same problem. My guess for no fruit would be not enough sun.

Does the 82 degrees mentioned mean minimum or maximum?

Thanks for the replies! With the help of the nice folks at the tomato forum, I discovered my mistake was over-watering and over-fertilizing. I finally was able to grow my own tomatoes organically this year. I would love to hear from anyone growing tomatoes in Hawaii, what varieties you tried, and your growing experiences.

Aloha Honu,

Any indeterminate small fruited variety of tomato seems to do well. The determinate varieties give one round of fruit and then die off, but then, that's what they are supposed to do. The larger fruited varieties get stung by fruit flies and then they don't set fruit or if the do it falls off before it gets ripe. Roma does well as well as the small cherry varieties.

A hui hou,
Cathy