I have a pepper plant like that right now. It's taller than I am (I'm 5'3") and blooms profusely. No peppers. It's been in the ground since mid April. I've been told that there can be something wrong with plants where blooms can't be pollenated, which sounds like the sterility you're talking about. I'm about to yank it out, as I think it's had enough time.

What variety is it? Shaking it twice a day helps. If I have no disease issues like this year I brush them with my hand. That seems to work as good as anything.

Some types will not pollinate when the temp gets up past 85 during the day. The pollen becomes too sticky. Too much nitrogen can make the leafy unproductive growth also. Is it deseased?

I have 5 rows of 7 tomato plants to make 35 other tomato plants all around this fruitless tomato vine and the weather doesn't seem to have bothered them at all as they have been loaded up with fruit. This barren vine is a San Marzano with 6 more in the same row that have made a foot tub full of fruit, there are 7 Amish Paste in the next row with 4 Roma vf & and 3 Speckled Roman in the 3rd. row, & 3 Beef Steak & 4 Rutgers in the 4 th row with 3 Heidi, 3 Baker Family Heirloom in the in the 5th row. I lost one Heidi to a gopher earlier in the 5th row. All have set fruit and had plenty of tomatoes on them. I didn't have to do anything to the others to make them set fruit. I will start shaking this lone plant to see if it helps. The San Marzano, Roma vf, Speckled Roman & Amish Paste make a wonderful thick tomato juice with a good flavor.

I have had years when San Marzanos have been late overall as a group, but have not had one plant out of our group os SMs just flat out not set fruit. So, my best guess is either it really is sterile or has root damage (could the gopher have damaged it some but not enough to kill it?) that has kept it from fruiting. I don't really feel like the gopher thing is likely, but you never really know.

One year I had one tomato plant (I no longer remember what variety but it was a purchased plant) that didn't grow very big. It got to a certain size and just stopped and never progressed. I don't think it ever set fruit, but it also didn't yellow or look diseased or die. It just sat there in some sort of state of suspended animation with seemingly nothing going on, good or bad, except it was permanently stunted. Having lots of room, I just left it there. In the fall, after a freeze had killed everything, I cleaned up the bed. While pulling out and removing all the plants, I noticed the stunted one had root knot nematodes. I suspect they came with it in its growing medium because I've never had nematodes since moving here in 1999---just that one time on that one plant. Even though it was in amended clay (and RKNs normally are only an issue in very sandy soil), I was almost in a panic, worrying that the next year we'd have root knot nematodes everywhere, at least in that raised bed. Nope. No sign of them since then. So, while root knot nematodes in our clay would have been the very last thing I ever would have guessed (especially since the leaves never yellowed), apparently they were there in large enough numbers to prevent much plant growth but not in large enough numbers to kill the plant or to cause it to show any symptom that would have made me suspect nemadoes. Sometimes strange stuff just happens.

If this is a beefsteak variety, which being 7 ft I would suspect, they are late tomatoes anyway. Probably the heat as my beefsteak and beefmasters are slowing due to heat. I wouldn't give up just yet. It has been an odd year.

You can say odd again.

I have some few tomatoes that I planted 3 months and half a go. The problem is that they set flowers, however most of those set flowers wither and fall off before giving fruits. Another issue is that few set fruits get rot on the lower part of the fruits with pink color appearance. May I get some help on this please!!!

Rek, the blossom end rot you're experiencing is from inconsistent watering. And inconsistent watering is most likely to happen in hot and/or dry weather. The hot and/or dry weather will cause the blossoms to fall off. The plant is expending its energy on surviving rather than producing.

The good news: Your future tomatoes need not have blossom end rot. Try to water regularly and consistently. Some folks add egg shells, epsom salts or antacids, like Tums, to the soil to help the plant out. Whether this works or not is debatable because the rot stops with consistent moisture. Mulch is very helpful in maintain a consistent moisture.

Your blossoms will grow back and when the weather cools, they'll be off and running again. Dawn has said that it is the evening cooler temperatures that encourages pollination. When the flowers come in, be certain to gently giggle the plant to stimulate pollination as soon as possible and you might have a bumper crop before your first frosts.

I am not an expert, but this is what I find to be helpful.