my tomatoes are always beautiful but can grow to 6-7 ft tall and hard to find tomatoes, even though they are there and hard to get sunlight to them. what can i do? trim or feed differently?
2006-07-15 08:33:50 · 5 answers · asked by shadow 12 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Having a lot of nitrogen in the soil will make lots of leaves on your plants & little blooms.
My 'mater plants are also tall like yours. But the sun & heat gets to them just fine & they ripen well. I do have to sometimes search underneath the leaves to get the good ones I missed the day before!
2006-07-15 08:38:04 · answer #1 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably too much nitrogen. Nitrogen forces foilage growth, which is necessary, but too much will give you a problem like you've got. Withhold the nitrogen and feed with a high phosphorous fertilzer. If you're using a water soluble, switch to one with an analysis like 10-30-20.
2006-07-15 08:39:40 · answer #2 · answered by Skeptimystic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you pinching off the "suckers"? They're little branches that sprout out from the joint where a larger branch meets the stem. If not, that could be why you have so much foliage, and probably smaller tomatoes as well.
Good luck, nothing like a fresh-picked own grown tomatoe! Yum!
2006-07-15 08:38:43 · answer #3 · answered by zuzu_2u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pull off some of the outta leaves to let the sun ripen ur toms
2006-07-15 08:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by robppc20022002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoke them
2006-07-15 08:37:37 · answer #5 · answered by scribdog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋