Grow bags??

[blue411]

Do i have to wait until my tomato plants have flowers on them before i can plant them into the grow bags?
My tomato plants are gardeners delight and sub artic, both are nice and tall and have lots of folliage but no flowers and i have read somewhere that they shouldnt be planted into grow bags until flowers appear, is this correct?

Thanks for any advice

[Matt.]

I don't think so and have never hear that before. I would put them in now to give the roots as much time to spread out and get nutrients. In a small pot they can easily get root bound.

[dandamegs]

Never heard of that one either.

I drop mine onto grow bags as soon as I have potted them on into their final big pot.

[blue411]

Great!
Panic over!!
Thanks guys

[Wren]

A tip i got off this forum was to cut the bags in half, turn them on their ends and plant into the them like that. Tomato's prefer to be deep rooted and it all gets a bit 'boil in the bag' in the hight of summer if you lay the bags flat.

Wren

[syanide]

My gardeners delight are starting to flower (although the top foilage above the first truss is curling a bit - but I think that's more to do with the direct sunlight in the conservatory)...can someone just tell me what happens next please? Will the flower just open up and then die to let the tomato grow through? As you can tell, I'm a newbie!!!

thanks

syanide

[Winky]

A tip i got off this forum was to cut the bags in half, turn them on their ends and plant into the them like that. Tomato's prefer to be deep rooted and it all gets a bit 'boil in the bag' in the hight of summer if you lay the bags flat.

Wren

What a brilliant idea! My garden gets full sun all day long, no shade at all till evening - lovely for me, but the veg don't like it - I'll be trying this idea for the tomatoes as it's always been difficult to keep them from drying out.

[paulmonkeycanary]

I have heard that if you wait until the first lot of flowers have appeared before planting them out, then those flowers will form fruit. If, however you plant before those flowers form, then they often fail to form fruit and you have to wait until the second lot of flowers come along. I donr know whether this is true, but I have seen it repeated on several websites. (I've planted mine out without any flowers on and theyve grown loads in the last couple of weeks compaired to the few plants I've left in their small pots, so Im happy anyway!).
Paul

[Millit]

i have put my toms in growbags 2 days ago,only had 2 shoots and growing nicely.

[syanide]

Mine are in 10" pots (all three of them in a pot of their own) and are showing flowers on the first truss. One of the flowers is opening up, but one of them started opening one petal but has given up. Is his normal?

syanide

[Martyn Legg]

The idea of planting in the two halfs makes real sense, I'll try that next time.
Is there an optimum quantity of water for a grow bag with 3 toms in? I seem to go from dry to soggy!

Ta, M

[Two_Sheds]

I guess the theory is that by constricting the roots, the plant is forced into flower earlier. I can't find anything on the Net though, bit tired. Here's this instead: GROW TOMATOES FROM SEED FOR YOUR KITCHEN GARDEN