My tomato flowers have looked like this for about a week…just a shriveled rod…does that mean it’s going to fall off? Or does it just take a lot of time for the tomato to form and start pushing out!?
by Historical_Many8173
My tomato flowers have looked like this for about a week…just a shriveled rod…does that mean it’s going to fall off? Or does it just take a lot of time for the tomato to form and start pushing out!?
by Historical_Many8173
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Get some 2-10-10 or something to support fruit growth!
My young plants usually have a few blossoms that don’t take at the beginning. It’s almost like they are practicing or not mature enough to handle it. But as it grows, the tomatoes begin to come. I wouldn’t worry about these. The next set should bear fruit.
Also it’s weird cuz my jalapeño plant I started at the exact same time has like 15 lil peppers going and out of my 6 tomato plants I have a total of 3 little baby tomatoes lol.
Some might not go to fruit. Don’t worry tho, the flowers becoming dry don’t mean no tomato formed necessarily. You might want to take a closer look and see if there is a really tiny green bump
The plant knows…..the plant…knooooows ~fades away~
One thing that works for me is removing the first few flowers and using fertilizer every 2 weeks and they take off like a wild flower.
I’d suggest Neptune’s harvest fish fertilizer but any will as long as it has a lower nitrogen content.
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Update..the one that fell off..appears to of had a tiny baby tomato forming behind it?! Lol
If the flowers look like that you either have a flower that’s turning into a tomato, or one that’s not going to produce. Catch them sooner when they are colorful and give them a little shake or couple of taps each day. It’ll rattle the pollen around and help it self pollinate! Whether it’s indeterminate or determinate I wouldn’t bother pruning anything. This early, pruning really only stunts growth. Let it grow wild until it gets into its rhythm. Prune only leaves that lay directly on the soil early on 🍻
Stimulate those flowers with an electric toothbrush.
I have a cheapo electric toothbrush I keep on my back porch when I go out to weed or prune things I take it with me and I hit the flowers on all my tomato plants. I never keep track of which ones I’ve done but it absolutely makes my pollination rate increase. Enough that my ex-wife would be overwhelmed by the amount of tomatoes we would get from the garden lol. That having been said sometimes they don’t pollinate, just stick with it!
The blossoms have either been pollinated and you’ll see tiny tomatoes growing at the base of the blossom very soon or the blossoms failed to pollinate.