Tomato plants not flowering........

[River Cottage]

Hi,

Quick update on my plot.

Cucumber plant is looking good with 2 inch long cuc`s
Lettuce have gone mad !! Onions / carrotts looking ok.

Everyone one know has flowers on thier toms, mine are 6 stem high but not one has a flower yet. (15/20 in total)
Whats gone wrong ??

Thanks for any ideas/reasons etc

Regards
Richard

[Flummery]

My outdoor ones aren't flowering yet either. The ones going mad are the greenhouse ones. Give them a chance - they need a bit of decent weather - don't we all!

[terrier]

This may be of help to you:
My tomatoes (or peppers) are not flowering.

Good luck

[teakdesk]

This may be of help to you:
My tomatoes (or peppers) are not flowering.

Good luck

I wouldn't ever prune tomatoes in a greenhouse or outside that way.


I don't see how growing under lights with special "tablet" feed is much use here!!

[Flummery]

No I didn't find that particularly helpful either. I know that my outdoor toms aren't flowering yet because it's only half past June and they are immature. I was wondering if the same applied to River Cottage. It's not really the height of a plant that counts. They can be tall because they had low light levels after germination. I think they need time if they're outdoors.

[teakdesk]

I'm sure Flummery is spot on - we've had funny weather here this year where good weather in April brought both my greenhouse and outdoor toms into flower but a weather change in May has given me very, very, very, very, very, very poor setting of fruit.

If your neighbours had plants just a little advanced of yours that caught the better weather then they will have had a boost that yours missed.



Given the size of your plants they are only just getting to the point where flowers will appear. It is not how tall they are but how many leaves they have.

A tomato leaf is the whole of the "branch" that comes out of the stem (the vine) - the foliage that grows on the "branches" are leaflets (ie not leaves).

A cordon type tomato (indeterminate) will grow flowers after it has produced 6 leaves (ie "branches") and you say yours are just at this stage, so they are now ready to produce flowers.


Have patience and tomatoes will come!!

[divvy]

Mine in the greenhouse haven't got many flowers on either . My Mum has a theory that it's the compost . They mix fertilizer in it and the tomatos grow into big plants with loads of leaves and no flowers . She is having the same problem . I have cut off a lot of the leaves so the light gets in to the few flowers I do have .

[hsthst]

all my outdoor toms are covered in flowers, despite the mixed weather.......that doesn't mean I'll get a single tomato though!

[Hannah28]

I have 2 tomato plants one in a pot which is like yours and not really doing much and one in a hanging basket which has loads of flowers which just seem to die off without turning into fruit.

I am assuming that the one that hasn't flowered will come in its own time but I am a bit more worried about the tumbler in the basket as it has been flowering for weeks an still nothing - does anyone have any advice?