I told you what you need to do.
Now just do it. lol
Now just do it. lol
What's Up With My Mater Plants?
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like_A_pike
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I am hearing noises about primary pollinators (like bees) are in short supply this year all over the country. If you had a cool spring you may have missed hatches of other important pollinating bugs locally as well. Google if tomatoes are monoecious or dioecious I haven’t looked. They may “do” themselves!! Aka rub flowers on the same plant.
Yeah there are quite a few branches with no flowers. Those are the offending ones I bet. Thanks.
Well alright! lol
What I was going to say LIME needed as the soil looses a lot each year from plant eating the good stuff and don’t forget to pull the nibs off (new shoots in the v s) so it’s make maters not vines!
Dan the man
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When we had a garden our plants never got that tall and we had boat loads of tomatoes. What size bucket are you using? There is a possibility that you have to much fertilizer. I have put sand in my garden soil and we always had healthy plants. I'm assuming that your entire property is very sandy .
Tomato plants need to catch wind to pollinate.
We grow ours in the garden in dirt, and fertilize with common triple 1. But I have used tomato miracle grow also with good results. And some years, back in Mo. in our area, NO decent tomato one year and I still do not understand why.
I am not a fan of tring to grow especially tomatos in buckets.
Important. Are you growing them year after year in same dirt!??? That is a big NONO/ Ga. will be bad for nematodes also.
Always best to pull off the suckers.
We grow ours in the garden in dirt, and fertilize with common triple 1. But I have used tomato miracle grow also with good results. And some years, back in Mo. in our area, NO decent tomato one year and I still do not understand why.
I am not a fan of tring to grow especially tomatos in buckets.
Important. Are you growing them year after year in same dirt!??? That is a big NONO/ Ga. will be bad for nematodes also.
Always best to pull off the suckers.
Dan the man
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I looked up the problem your having and it said to much nitrogen fertilizer causes the situation you have, plants grow tall but do not produce little to no tomato's.
Dan the man
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A lack of nutrients will cause plants not to produce. Also pollination is important as well. Do you change the soil every year? When we had our garden I never planted the plants in the same spot.
I want to get in on this conversation, stepped out of the truck when we got home, did something to my neck.. I will chime in after a hot shower..
8 hours a day at least.
I'd say they get about that. Maybe a little more. I trimmed a LOT of the non productive (no blooms) branches off this mornin. We'll see what happens. We had some hail a couple of weeks ago. Didn't hurt the mater plants at all, but it beat the CHIT outta my pepper plants. Knocked almost all the leaves off two of them, but they've both recovered and are doing well.
My tomatoes and peppers are slow this year but they were small starters and got planted late. I see blooms and small fruit. Last year I couldn't keep up with the picking. LOL Good news is the raspberries are loaded.
As mentioned already, and I agree, pruning should help so more energy and nutrients don't go to growing more leaves.
I think they're gonna do good. Like you say, we got a late start too, plus we had an unusually cool spring. Our growing season routinely goes as far as December some years, so we'll see what happens.
I wish you much fruit. LOL
Thanks. I thought I'd be eatin mater sammiches by now. lol
Everything i have learned is at a minimum 4 to 5 hours if we live in the heat, down south, I give mine 5 hours, and not put them threw the heat we have here, I have read a bunch and watched videos and they say at least 4, I give mine 5 hours and then they are in the shade by 4pm.
Mine are loaded, but they did start slow this year, I used a concrete mixer and blended my soil with everything here in the picture, but now that fruit is on, I start adding fertilizer on top, and also in my water I pore in to my Wicking tubs, first year to use these and its looking good, look up Wicking pots for tomatoes for next year, I waters them every 4th day, others in pots like yours every 2 day, and skip watering for one day or two, I have seen that tomatoes like a dry soil before watering, but thats what I have learned..
Like I said, this is the first year for my Wicking pots.
I will get pictures of my pot today.
Yep, it depends what and where you read. Our garden is in the middle of the back yard and get's sun from about 10am-7 or 8 pm. In August when it gets quite hot, the plants will get a bit crispy but still produce fruit. No moving mine to the shade. Our gardens were always in full sun.
Inertia
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Lotta good general info here, homemade tonics, fungus/pest control, nutrients .
Grew pot for decades, indoor and out, this dudes guidance/stuff works .
Grew pot for decades, indoor and out, this dudes guidance/stuff works .
Picked my first ripe tomatoe this morning as I dug deep and found it, trying my hand at none trellis tomatoes this year, seen some information on this in April or may, toot it in and washed it, cut it open for my first taist of a vine ripened one, the othere two on the left I picked as it was pink and let them ripen in a paper bag.
My cucumbers are full of blooms but have only picked two, and I pulled them to early.. waiting patiently
Here are some that We planted in non Wicking pots, been using these for the third year now, Our plants get 6 hours here next to the house.
Cucumbers I planted in a boat shotgun box.
Cucumbers I planted in a boat shotgun box.
Two days ago I walked out and seen my first tomato leave munger, after that I 7 dusted them 5% and found 5 of the little yet fat bugs eating away.
I have that aluminum topper on the ground that catches a ton of rain water for me, and I have a plastic trash can catching some off my shop roof.. I don't have a well water supply 
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