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Question by amydreams_75: Why are my large tomato plants not producing tomatoes?
My tomato plants are huge, close to six feet tall and bushy. They are making buds but no tomatoes are being produced at all. Not even little tiny ones. The plants look healthy, the leaves don’t look like any bugs or animals are munching on them. Please let me know if you know why my plants aren’t producing. Thanks!
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Answer by heart o’ gold
Tomatoes need heat for blossoms to set to fruit, but it sounds like you have small fruits setting?
Sometimes when plants are too happy they’ll grow at the expense of fruit.
I suggest cutting back on water, a bit, not enough to dry out or stress the plant.
You may also want to check with a knowledgable nursery person in your area as local climates vary considerably.
Last year in my general area things were much cooler than normal and many folks near the coast complained their tomatoes never got ripe…
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my cherry looks lack of nutrients even i fertilized it well
The blossoms grow on trusses. Try limiting the amount of trusses to 3 or 4 by cutting off the top of the plant. Also use tomato feed every time you water.
several things: first, you’ve overfertilized for the bush to be that big. Overfertilizing will inhibit fruiting because all the energy goes to growth and not producing fruit. If you haven’t had blossoms, you won’t have fruit. If you did have blossoms and they didn’t get fertilized, you won’t have fruit. You need to break off new growth to allow the plant to focus on fruiting, so trim it back but if there are blooms, leave some. Also, as another response said, you MUST have heat. If your plant is cooling down to 60 or below at night, you won’t have results. Also, you may not have enough light. It needs full sun.
A high nitrogen fertilizer will make a big, bushy, healthy tomato plant at the expense of blossoms and fruit. Switch to a blend with a lower nitrogen and higher phosphorus balance. Blossoms that come on but don’t set fruit are either not being pollinated or the plant is being stressed, possibly due to low nighttime temperatures (below the mid 50’s), high daytime temperatures (above the mid 90’s), uneven watering, again, a fertilizer imbalance, humidity extremes, being rootbound if they are in pots, even air pollution. Stress can occur even when the plants look perfectly healthy.
You say you have blossoms but no fruit? Sounds like you lack pollinators. You can pollinate them yourself with your finger.just touch every blossom with the same finger. If you plant ornamental flowers you can increase the likelihood of natural pollinators.
The blossoms need to be pollinated by bees. You can take a brush or q tip and take the pollen from the male blossom and put it on the female blossom. Shaking the plants help them too.
The problem appears to be “dry set”. The air is too hot and dry during pollination. Spray the plants daily with a mist of water.