Tomatoes! How I love them! But mine are just now beginning to bear fruit - or should I say berries? Just this week they got some little green tomatoes on them. Is it the unusual heat and precipitation we've had?
2006-08-27 16:14:19 · 6 answers · asked by Thom Thumb 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Depends on a couple of things....
If you planted them late, you'll have fruit later in the season. Also, I've heard from quite a few mater growers that this has not been a great season for them. Couple reasons could be the goofy weather this year or could be a lack of pollinators. There seems to be a decline in bees and wasps because of pesticides being used.
2006-08-27 16:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by redneckgardendiva 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the 2 biggest factors are when you planted them and what the weather has been like. Here in northern coastal California, we had very late heavy rains, so we couldn't even get into work our gardens until weeks later than usual, so we were behind schedule from the start. Then we had ungodly heatwaves, which caused the plants to drop the earliest flowers and fruits and put their energy into self-preservation. I have had cherry and grape tomatoes ripening for the past 3 or 4 weeks, but my larger slicing tomatoes are just starting to ripen.
So I blame natural forces for my late tomato season - a late start and way too much heat early on. I hope your tomatoes ripen quickly and you still have time to enjoy them!
2006-08-28 00:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by sonomanona 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not knowing where you live all I know is in California it takes 10 consist days of over 70 degrees for the tomatos to begin to ripen. If you have had cool and cloudy weather then that will retard the flowers also if its been too hot the plant will begin to withdraw to protect it self and the fruit will either fall off or stop growing.
2006-08-28 00:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by settoogo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the heat. The plants have been trying just to survive. Now its cooling off a little and time to make fruit and seeds.
2006-08-27 23:59:23 · answer #4 · answered by hipichick777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the excessive heat this summer caused our tomato plants to drop their flowers before the fruit set in........now, after a few weeks, the new flowers are starting to set fruit.....
hope yours ( and mine! ) have enough time to ripen before it gets too cold !!
2006-08-28 01:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lack of water can produce small fruit, as well as lack of sun, or even poor soil! As well even the type planted may have an effect on fruit.
2006-08-27 23:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by BCOL CCCP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋