Tomato plant?

Question

Does a tomato plant stop producing tomato's at one point?

I have four tomato plants. Two of them have produced about 7 per plant. Two of the others, sprouted their yellow flowers and no tomato's grew.

Is there a way to encourage growth, besides using Miracle Grow which I used. Any home remedies?
Do the plants reproduce new tomato's from which I picked from?

Answer 1

Most tomatos will only set fruit in a certain temperature range. Typically, you will get little or no fruit to set in very hot weather.

Slightly thumping the flowers with your finger is supposed to help pollination and they do make "bloom set" spray that is supposed to help pollination.

I've done both and I can't really say if either really makes a big difference.

If you live in a deep south "two season" area, you'd be better yanking out old tomatoes. They just don't do all that well in the fall if they've managed to survive the long hot summer.

Answer 2

If the plants flowered and did not produce fruit, they were probably not pollinated. We don't have many bees here this year so I took a piece of paper an held it under the flowers and tapped on them. Then I "sprinkled" the pollen onto other plants. It seemed to work as I have tomatoes on all plants.

Answer 3

I agree with sensible man in that it is probably a lack of pollination. I don't know where you are, but extreme heat especially at night will also halt production of tomato plants. However, once the temps start to drop production will return.

Answer 4

My dad grows loads of tomatoes every year. This is his secret for getting lots of them: You will notice on the plant where its "branches" kind of fork off. Sometimes between that fork, there will be another little bud coming through. Snap that off to let the bigger branches get all the nutrients. He always called them "suckers". Happy growing!

Answer 5

my be laking nitrogen..use a fertilizer that is more enriced in nitrogen..also this could just be how this perticular species of tomato plants produce tomatoes