Tomato green zebra

[w33blegurl]

Morning!

Bit of a tomato question this morning! This year I ended up buying a set of tomato seedlings online (after multiple disasters with my own sowings!!). The plants are in a quad grow thingy and are all looking very healthy. The Costoluto Fiorentino has produced masses of fruit which I am hoping will ripen soon (they look amazing!!), the Stupicke Polni Rane plants have also done pretty well if a little less prolific but the green zebra have two fruits from two plants. In fact one of the plants has not flowered at all!

Just wondering why this might be? I had wondered if it was because they are in the quadgrow and the green zebra started getting fed at the same time as the ones that were already fruiting so perhaps were not encouraged to fruit? Could that be the reason or am I just making stuff up? Or are they just slightly more awkward plants to grow?

Any thoughts!
Thanks!!

[Tripmeup]

Probably none of the above tbh..
It's been a strange year for most veg..I have Green Zebra growing and they have lots of fruit on them. Other varieties that are usually reliable have little or none ...

Only other thing I can think of it spacing and light; does the plant of have enough of both?

[w33blegurl]

It certainly has been and odd year! All 6 plants are in the blowaway, so probably they might like a little bit more space, but they are in nice big pots and they are getting a good amount of light I think!

Is the green zebra tasty? It was my first time growing it and wondering if worth getting some seeds for next year!

[Potstubsdustbins]

My Red Zebra are well behind my Sungold & Tumbler. So far I have had just 3 Zebra 20 or so Tumbler and a good few pounds od Sungold.

[MarkPelican]

I agree that its been a funny year, my tomatoes are running about two weeks later than normal.

I like green zebra BUT they have to be eaten at just the right moment, underripe they are hard and tasteless, overripe they're mealy (in my opinion but taste is subjective). I prefer Red Zebra as its easier to work out when they're ripe.

[w33blegurl]

Thanks all...I'll just put it down to a funny year! I have ended up taking down the one that has not flowered to give the others a bit more light as I don't think it is going to do anything in time for the tomatoes to ripen even if it does eventually produce a flower (which it was showing NO signs of doing!!). On a very exciting note, however, several of the Stupicke Polni Rane have starting going red (finally!!) so I might get some ripe toms and not just a thousand jars of green tomato chutney (we are still getting through the jars from two years ago...).

[Ladyslip]

I love green zebra and to be honest have lots of good sized fruits on mine....
Red pear however is a total disaster as is red velvet bush......I have some in quad grows....some in auto pots and some in plant halos ��

[Small pumpkin]

All of my tomatoes have been a little below par this year. Some just haven't produced at all, some have produced less than 10 fruit, the ones that are producing still not the numbers there normally is and the flavour and texture isn't quite there. I've put all that down to the rubbish summer with its very changeable temperatures and because I've been away a couple of time so there routine has been charged ( but mostly the weather). Obviously I don't know if that's the reason, I'm just guessing .