It is what it is.. I love tomatoes..
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Question by Bill W: My stupid tomato plants are super healthy but no fruit!?
I have all these great big tomato plants but they aren’t making fruit, while all my neighbors already have tomatoes. What can I do?
They are all better boys.
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Answer by S
Do or did you have blooms? Has something eaten them? You just have to wait it out if the answer to those is no.
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They all died anyway. haha. It was a failure..
if you are not using food grade plastic isnt it a risk that chemicals will leach into the tomato?
I think it takes a lot of water, and I probably didn’t keep it watered well enough.. I didn’t try again, but I think it’s a great concept, and I have seen it work before. I just don’t have even the slightest green thumb.. haha
Wonder why, some people on other videos got it to work
Not even a little..
Did it work?
I agree. Mine all died. I’ve got one that sprung up wild right by the back door, this year. Think I’m finally going to get a tomato.. hahahaha.
I bought a TopsyTurvy, and it did not work. Bugs and birds got it and it was too hot so the t omato plant died, ground tomatoes are a good choice, not hung-in-air tomatoes.
how do you water them…they are hung so high ??
Well, I haven’t had the best luck either. If I decide to try it out, I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m pretty jealous of my friends’ green thumb.
I kind of doubt it. I’m lousy with growing things..
That’s too bad about the tomatoes. I have a friend in Washington state who was doing this about the same time last year. They used empty plastic pickle jars and hung them up with fishing net along the south eaves of their garage. They were great producers. Are you going to try again? I may give it a try this year. I’m hoping to have good luck now that I’m down in California.
Some people have made it work. I think the climate up here didn’t help. Cold and wet.
Nope. Killed ’em. The experiment failed..
Thats a shame about the tomatoes but good on you for trying. I might give it a go too. : )
The tomatoes died..
a little tip on your buckets…you did the hole pretty small but if you do lose dirt out that hole…you can put coffee filters around the stem to keep the dirt in.
You know if I let you see my still I’d have to kill you right?
Forget the tomatoes, I want to see your Still!
Good Luck with the buckets!
K. Thanks..
i tried this last year.you will have water every day because it evaporates quicker!
I was actually replying to psychodelicdragon.
I actually think compost is better than anything you can buy at a store.
Just for the fact that a store can’t sell you something that hurts the enviorment less than compost.
Compost, actually, doesn’t hurt but rather helps the enviorment.
And I don’t care what any scientist says, I think compost has more neutrients than something from a plastic bag.
Nice to know there’s some younger versions out there to carry on the fun..
Your an older version of me, you even love to garden? damn this is crazy
It’s actually compost soil. I ‘spect it’ll work..
Usually it means too much nitrogen in the soil. Did you fertilize with something high in nitrogen? That might have done it. Also, when the temps start climbing, it just gets too hot for the tomatoes to set fruit. That’s happening here in zone 8b now where we are suffering in the high 90’s.
let me guess, you have been fertilizing them, too much nitrogen makes lots of green but no fruit, try to find a fert that has a 0 for first number 0-5-5
Make sure it’s getting as much sun as possible. One season mine were only in partial sun and didn’t yield fruit until much later than normal.
What variety are they? There are Early Tomato’s that produce in early summer, Mid Season Tomato’s that produce in July – Aug. and Late Tomato’s that don’t produce until the fall.
If you have a mid season or late variety, it is too early for them to produce.
It could be from excessive fertilizer which makes the plant grow larger and produce later in the season. Too much fertilizer will make an early variety grow very bushy and not produce until mid to late summer.
I would guess that your tomato plants may have too much Nitrogen available to them, and that’s why they are growing lush tops without making much fruit.
If the plants aren’t even really bothering to flower much, that’s probably the answer.
However, there are several reasons why a tomato plant would grow to be large and healthy without producing many tomatoes. The lack of tomatoes on the plant may have to do with the variety of tomato plant (i.e. Better Boy, Rutgers, etc.), the ambient air temperature (i.e. it may be too hot for the tomato plant to set fruit), or the nutritional status of the tomato plant (i.e. underfertilized or overfertilized).
So, before you go out and dump a bunch of fertilizer on your tomato plant, check this out: if your tomato plant is huge, healthy and very lush looking, but doesn’t have many tomatoes on it, the plant may actually have too much Nitrogen available to it.
The tomato plant’s lack of tomatoes probably has very little to do with pollination, because most tomato varieties are self-pollinating, meaning that they don’t require insects to help with pollination.
To have the best chance of having a “fruitful” tomato plant, make sure that you start by planting a variety of tomato that does well in your area. Your local Cooperative Extension office (every county in the US has one) is probably the best place to get recommendations about tomato varieties that will thrive in your area. Recommendations from your local big box garden center will be hit or miss, depending on how knowledgeable the salesperson is about vegetable gardening in your area.