It's normal. They don't all set at the same time and nutrients may not be equally available so they don't grow at the same rate or to the same degree. In clusters of cherry tomatoes, the fruit closest to the main stem will grow faster (and ripen first) than the ones out on the tip of the cluster.

Dave

Pheeew...Thanks for the info i was scared because i was to eager.Every time i saw a bloom that was dead or partially dead i nicked them of :S .Which made me think they werent tomatoes when they were not growing.Should i just let the flowers fall of naturally now?

Should i just let the flowers fall of naturally now?

Yes that is always best.

Dave

Expect that plant to get ALOT bigger. I picked all my sweet 100's before a predicted frost a few weeks back. I still have 3 good sized bowls of greenies ripening on my table....all from one monster of a plants! Lots of others have ripened already and been eaten or given away.

Some of the clusters had alot of tomatoes, others had only a few. Leave them alone, no need to pick off any flowers, dead or not.

Ok thanks how long does it normally take for sweet 100s to grow from green to red cause i am really exited about trying them...Thats if all the fuss about being too sweet is true cause store bought cherrys taste like utter crap here.

First clusters are very slow to ripen because the plant is still focused on growth, not ripening. 1st clusters will begin to ripen after subsequent clusters have set fruit - say 6 weeks average.

Dave

Damn thats a while.Do you mean they will be ripe when another truss has set fruit.Cause its been about 3 weeks and some maters arnt even growing.

As I have said before - you need to acquire some patience. ;) No, they will not be ripe when another truss has set fruit, they will BEGIN to ripen then.

Tomato plants have their own time table - it's focus at this young age is plant growth and only a little energy is devoted to anything else - and no matter how hard you try, you aren't going to force them to live up to YOUR time table.

If indeed, the fruits aren't growing, and it isn't as if you can see them grow, but the plant is, then as explained in one of your other posts, it may be because you have given the plant too much nitrogen fertilizer (the GP manure) but not enough of the phosphorus and potassium needed by the fruit.

Do some research on the different types of nutrients needed by plants and how to provide them. This is vital for plants in containers like yours. Basically, nitrogen gets you leaves and branches, not fruit, phosphorus gets you blooms and fruit, potassium is for roots to supply the other nutrients to the plants.

Dave

Tomatoes take weeks to go from blossoms to ripe fruit. If you have grown beans or zucchini and had ready-to-pick veggies in a week or less it may be hard to believe that your tomato plant is soooo slooow. And hard to believe that they are actually doing all right. But slow is how they are and there isn't alot to speed them up. Lots of sun and warmth help but they will still take alot of time to size up and ripen.

It continues to surprise me that many of the cherry tomatoes are much slower to ripen than early varieties of regular sized tomatoes. I know it is true and supposed to happen, and I understand it is genetically determined, but somehow my brain tries to tell me that the small ones should be faster :)