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Roma tomatoes not producing

7 years ago

I have a roma tomato plant that I got about a month and a half ago. I currently have 4 tomatoes that are almost ripe and another one just starting to pop through the stem. I have a ton of flowers that have bloomed but I am unable to tell yet if a tomato bud is forming. How long should it be from the time the flower blooms to the time the tomato will be visible or ready to be picked. Also why are they not all coming in at the same time? Aren't Roma tomatoes supposed to ripen all at once? the 4 that are almost ripe probably started 4 or 5 weeks ago so the other ones are not anywhere close. Will these flowers produce fruit at all? Is it too late in the season?

Comments (6)

  • 7 years ago

    You don’t say where you are growing your plants. What zone are you in? Someone will likely chime in if you give them more information. You can add your zone next to your name for the future. It is helpful to the people who may respond.

  • 7 years ago

    Oops I forget that's a thing. I live in Richmond VA 7a/b

  • 7 years ago

    Is your plant in the ground or in a container? I’m having the same problem, about a month and a half and only one tomato coming in. Mine is growing in a container. An earlier thread, “Roma tomatoes stunted?” indicates many more problems can happen with a container.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Some people say Roma is determinate, but it's more like a semi-determinate. It starts getting ripe fruit after about 70-days, and it continues to do so all season, but the majority of the harvest is at the end of the season (in my garden); it gets progressively more fruit as the season progresses. The plants can be pretty compact (but I think it depends on how you grow them). It's very prolific.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes mine is in a container. I'm also having trouble because it's in a greenhouse and I'm new to greenhouse growing. It had a major white fly infestation a couple weeks ago. I've gotten it under control but almost all of the leaves were damaged except the new growth. I'm not sure it even has enough healthy leaves to support tomato growth. I'm crossing my fingers though because some of my buds do look like they are about to start showing some tomatoes and none have really died off so I guess they are tolerating. If it plans on dying I hope it at least puts all its energy into a few tomatoes and drops the rest so I at least get something.


    My other tomato, tidy rose is suffering too. That one is dying back maybe due to fusarium wilt. I had a bunch of flowers but then they started dropping and the bottom leaves started dying back. I currently have one tomato that I think will make it from that plant and hoping for better luck next year.


    It's so frustrating to put so much time and effort and money into care and pesticides and fungicides and what not only to have them die off from one of the 1000 infections anyways. I love gardening but I get far too stressed out trying to save plants. My fiance makes fun of me because he always says a hobby is supposed to be fun and not stressful but I just get so attached and excited to see my veggies come in and my flowers bloom that it sucks when they die and even more so when you don't know why and how to prevent it from happening next year!

  • 7 years ago

    Thank you.