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Brandywine flowers dying?

17 years ago

Hello folks. I love this site that I just found and hope that you can share your knowledge with me.

I planted 6 tomatoes plants this season: brandywine, cherokee purple, roma, cherry 100, yellow pear and an orange tomatoe whose name escapes me. We also planted beets, finger carrots, radishes, yellow onions, sugar snap peas, green bush beans, jalepenos, red/orange/yellow/black bell peppers, balck beauty/ichiban eggplants, straight 8 and 2 other cucumbers, spaghetti/crookedneck squash and 1 zuchini.

Everything is doing well and all the tomato plants are growing and are getting nice and bushy.

The details:

-All tomatoes in 24" plastic pots with cages.

-Soil is organic pottin mix that has compost tilled into it to replenish what was lost from last season.

-Drip irrigation at base of plant and at 4 points on the periphery of the pot. 10'/day at 8:30 am

-No saucers on pot bottoms so that everything drains well.

-Fertilized regularly with Miracle Gro Organic granular every 2 weeks.

-The garden is on the south side of the house and gets some throughout the day.

The brandywine has many flowers but no tomatoes yet and I have seen that some of the flowers have died/dried up. All the other tomatoe plants have produced fruit.

Should I do anything to help this plant start producing fruit?

Should I spray to flowers with some solution to get the fruit to "set on" as was described to me by my "tomato lady" friend?

Thanks for the help

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