Small Tomatoes.

[Scoot]

Is anyone else's tomatoes quite small this year. Some of mine are really really small. Is there a reason as to why this happens?

Grow them the same way every year. Weather maybe?

[bramble]

Hi Scoot, what variety are you growing.

[Penellype]

I was thinking the same yesterday when looking at my Oh Happy Day at the allotment. Last year these were big beefsteak tomatoes but this year they look a much more normal size (2nd year I have grown them so no other years for comparison). I think the very up and down temperatures this year have not helped at all and I suspect last night will have slowed things further - we got down to 6.5C here.

[Bren In Pots]

Not noticed any difference with mine, I'm growing Black cherry, Gardeners delight, Shirleys, San marzano and for the first time Ildi but they're small toms anyway.

[chillithyme]

My tomatoes are pretty small so far too which I also noticed, and very slow and all still green. I have a mix of everything small to large. I did plant them out late, but the sizes are small, the beefsteaks look like money makers, and the money makers look like cherry types.

[annie8]

Short answer -yes

[robbra]

My tomatoes are pretty small so far too which I also noticed, and very slow and all still green. I have a mix of everything small to large. I did plant them out late, but the sizes are small, the beefsteaks look like money makers, and the money makers look like cherry types.

Snap, even down to planting them out late, 1st July.

[Jungle Jane]

I noticed the same,this is kennilworth King George,the low down truss has big tomatoes,the trusses higher up some flowers were aborted during the heatwave & little pollination,it was too hot for the bees,at one point it was 38 degrees here -

[Scoot]

It seems this is happening to a few people then.

The varieties I'm growing are sungold, gardeners delight, pink charmer and rosella.

[annie8]

I started my tomatoes really early this year. First time trying to plant some outside (won’t be doing that again). As well as being really small and mostly still green I have had loads of forking in them. The worst is my gardeners delight but also the red cherry and sun gold.

[Scarlet]

Not noticed any difference with mine.

Not happening to mine either - I'm getting some lovely sized toms. Although I have been deleafing heavily as I've a serious amount of green toms that aren't ripening.

Always a good crop of my black icicles but I'm getting aheavy crops from each plant - most plants I have trained two main stems.


Though same as JJ - I had many several non pollinated flowers on the super hot days. GH temps were really high.

[bramble]

Same here this year.
No problem with the size, just really slow to ripen.