ugh, this one hurts. one of the tomato plants i planted out mid-may, in an absolute primo position in the garden, is now five feet tall, with a total of one (1) fruit growing on it. observe, plant:
fruit:
it hardly gets any flowers, and the ones that do form usually fall off:
the tomato plants to the left and right of this one--both different varieties, planted on the same day and currently about the same size--each have dozens of green tomatoes and flowers on them. all three are getting the same treatment. so what’s this one’s problem? fail.
Too much nitrogen not enough phosphorus? It does look impressive though.
ReplyDeleteThat plain sucks.
ReplyDeletesylvana--that's exactly what i would think too, but i don't understand why the two plants next to it that get the same treatment would behave so differently...
ReplyDeletegoneferal--yes it does! it completely pisses me off.
I had a similar mystery with radishes. Five rows planted in the same area of ground. Two had consistently big red globes, the other three produced only long red roots with a rock-hard swelling at the end. I shrug.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what is causing your problem, but I use a hormone bloom set product on mine as they were not fruiting either... they are loaded with tomatoes now... Larry
ReplyDeletejeff--weird, i've had some inexplicable difficulties with radishes too. i'm much less upset by radish fail than tomato fail, though.
ReplyDeletelarry--i'm glad to hear those sprays actually work. i tried using some kind of bloom spray a while ago but probably didn't give it enough of a chance.