Repotting Tomato Plants.
Question by catbird56: If I plant my tomato plants in an area where they only get 4 to 5 hrs. of sun each day will they produce?
I have an area that I am thinking about planting the tomato plants, but it will only get sun until 12:00 noon. Will they lean to one side because they are only getting sun from the east?
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Answer by elementoflife
I planted tomatoes along the side of my house. One section got all-day sun (except really early morning) and the other section only got partial late morning, early afternoon sun. The ones with less sun exposure didn’t produce as much and were smaller. Can you plant your tomatoes plants in containers? My mom does that so she can move them around as the day progresses if need be, Her plants do exceedingly well! I was actually quite surprised (just make sure that you water them almost once daily (just a little water will do – just to keep the soil moist).
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Nice video. Thanks for the tips.
Great video, thanks!
They need about 8 hours of sun a day. They will try to follow the sun, but they will be stunted, and I can’t guarantee whether you’ll even get any tomatoes.
Not that that is a problem. They are trying to get the most exposure. 6 is optimum. 5 is close enough. They will still do their thing.
Ideally you will need about 8 hours of sun, more if possible. When tomatoes plants are fruiting. But getting 4-5 hours daily might be stretching the limit. If you have the choice, grow the tomatoes in a sun prone spot. or even grow them in buckets and move them as the day goes if the sun is limited. Because with the 4-5 hours of sun, You still will be producing fruit, but you won’t get these large beautiful tomatoes, but kind small puny thing. Just think 8 hours and large and beautiful. 4 hours small and puny…
I don’t know what zone you are in, but it really depends on that.
In some areas, the sun is so intense that 5 hours would be fine. In some it isn’t and you need a bit more. Where I am, zone 7b last year, rezoned the top of 8 this year, 5 hours is plenty and earlier sun is better than the hottest noon sun due to scalding.
Depending on where you are, you might get fewer, but you should still get some. If you want to try to enhance it some, prune back some of the fruit so your plant can focus on producing better on fewer of them.