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no tomatoes

18 years ago

I planted my 3 tomatoes and 2 are full of tomatoes the 3rd still has none. I believe I planted 2 Big Boys and 1 baby girl. I think it's the 2nd Big Boy that doesn't have a tomato yet. It does have a bloom. I remember several years ago I was told to shake the vine some to get it to pollinate so I did that. Any other ideas?

Comments (4)

  • 18 years ago

    I am having the same problem. But if I shake my babies any more the authorities are gonna get me for abuse.

    My Early Girls and Early Goliaths have a few green maters set on, but the other varieties don't seem to be setting.

    I suspect it is because of the weird weather we had in May and June this year (cold, hot, wet, dry, wet again). I don't ever recall having such drastic weather changes before.

    I guess we will just have to do without for a few extra weeks this year, or maybe hope the Early varieties have lots of ripe maters on them soon.

    What is a Baby Girl? I never heard of that variety.

  • 18 years ago

    Hello! I had the same problem when my tomatoes started blooming. I have Mr. Stripey, Yellow Pear, and Grape vines. They would bloom, but none would set. I did my research and found that it was probably the temperatures. We had heat waves going on that kept the temperature about 90. The heat waves have gone, and the heat has leveled off. I've been applying blossom-set spray, and it seems that they stay on long enough to be pollinated (I too have been shaking). My Mr. Stripeys have exploded with baby tomatoes and my grape tomatoes have just put out about 10-15 new bunches of blossoms, all of which have been germinating. Oh, and the other thing I noticed--I was overwatering. The plants shot up about 6 feet, but no blossoms were being put out. I reduced the water to the recommended amount (as I should have from the beginning) and the blossoms appeared.

    So... watch the tempreatures, watch your water, take care of your blossoms and you should be fine.

  • 18 years ago

    Now THAT makes sense. Best of luck.

  • 18 years ago

    Could just be a runt or a late starter? Out of 19 tomato plants I have 2 "Jeff's Mystery Pink Oxheart" plants that was sent to me by a nice person on the forums to try (well the seed was) :)

    While all the other tomatos I have planted are going like crazy (I counted at least 20 CLUSTERS of either fruit or new blooms on just one of the cherokee purple already)...I just saw my first fruit on the Oxheart this weekend :-\ It's (so far) lone tomato is the size of my thumbnail.

    All the seed was started at the same time, fertilized the same and put on the same drip irrigation. So there is no differences except plant type :)

    It may play catchup (as yours might too). The plant looks healthy enough and it's starting to put out more blossom clusters :D We'll see!

    Good luck!

    Laura

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