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Question by #JC#: Tomato plants setting flowers too early?
I planted them in pots because it was still cold outside, barely after one and a half months the plants have started setting flowers! They aren’t more than 6 inches tall yet. I was waiting for the weather to get a little warm, which it has now to transplant them outside in the ground but these buds I see now makes me wonder if there is something wrong with the plants? I brought them out in the sun for the pas t couple of weeks and they have been getting 6-8 hours of bright sunlight daily. I’ve been watering them every other day because the plastic pots retain a lot of moisture already. Haven’t put any fertilizer, just some organic cow manure one. They are beefsteak tomatoes. Temperatures are in the 60F-75F range.
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Answer by Charles C
Pinch the flowers of to promote plant growth. The shorter daylight triggers the plant to flower. Temperature at night has a very great effect on flowering too. Over about 75 deg. when they are in dark inhibits flowering and causes flower drop. For now pinch the flowers. If you plant them outdoors or even in pots, plant them deep. Roots will form on the stems in soil. Higher nitrogen fertilizer will stimulate plant growth and inhibit flower production.
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How do you train the tomato plants to be only one stem?
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TThat wire you were talking about is known as #10 Brace wire for fencing.
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Hey MHP, at what point do you trim the leaves off around the tomato
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I realize this comment is a year later than the video, but…Another method
to support your pole beans is to use hog wire between the posts. I helped
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beans run up the wire, and I think it also helped with pollination. Just a
thought. thanks for all the information you provide in these videos.
Do you need to support the perlins? I would think the weight of the
tomatoes would bend them.
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1. I generally prune everything up to the first cluster. After that, once
they start producing, I’ll prune the leaves as I pick. A lot of times,
because of fungal issues, I end up getting ahead on the pruning. But things
still work out ok. 2. No sir, I haven’t considered trying that. I think you
may have seen my video on that topic. I did root a sucker while still on
the vine. But that was to get an extra plant to grow outside. Inside, I
just let the single stem keep going.
Man those Tomatoes are huge, well done , I wish I had the room for a
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What’s the roller called? Where can you buy them?
I set up a dutch bucket system with a dripper timer that comes off and on
every 30 minutes, for 30 minutes.I have no Perilite inside or anything I
just have the roots growing down to the bottom water supply. Its growing
very good, my question is would it benefit more to have the perilite in the
buckets, and am I watering them too much?
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Just clip them (flowers) off and cut the tops off (If leggy) until ready to transplant in the ground outdoors.
Plants have built into their design the purpose of setting seed for the next generation.
Having them in pots and with the minimal light available to them they would flower early due to sensing the end is near. Forcing them to grow out of season triggers the growth/flowering you’re experiencing.
Decrease flowering by applying liberal amounts of nitrogen.
Also, using a deeper pot (Or if ready to transplant outdoors) bury 1/2 of the existing foliage (Leaves and stems). This would promote additional root growth and delay flowering a bit longer.
You didn’t say what size pots they’re in, or if you’ve transplanted them since you started the seeds. Tomatoes at 6 weeks need to be in 4″ pots, minimum; I’d probably have them potted up to gallons at this point.
Plants in pots that are too small age prematurely because they’re stressed. If they’re in small cell-packs, they need to go into larger pots ASAP. If you give them nitrogen fertilizer but leave them in small pots, it won’t help.
As others have said, pinch off flowers at this point.
Ideally, tomatoes should go into larger pots at about 4 weeks, and into the ground or even larger pots at about 6 or 7 weeks. Mine are always in gallons or the ground at 7 or 8 weeks.
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