All my other plants are blooming fine. the plant in question has beautful green foilage and is growing bigger than all the other plants, tons of flowers but no fruit!! Why??
2007-07-31 15:56:42 · 4 answers · asked by amdpcc 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Hmm, are the other plants fruiting fine? Maybe you don't have a good pollinator. My MIL sprays her tomatoes with something to attract pollinators. Also, you could try going around with a Q-tip. Get a little pollen from one flower, and dab it onto a different flower. If possible, get the pollen from one plant, and pollinate a different plant.
It's not rocket science -- just dab at the middle of the flowers. You should notice a yellow pollen starting to cover the Q-tip. It's OK to use one Q-tip for all the flowers, but I'd change the Q-tip each day.
2007-07-31 16:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by Madame M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It could be too much foliage growth, they're not pollinated, or the heat is stressing the plant & causing the pollinated plant to abort.
Your plants may be actively growing a lot of vegetation at the expense of developing fruit. Holding back on fertilizing helps with this. You can trim your plant to redirect its efforts into developing fruit.
Make sure they're getting enough sun.
Good luck! Hope this helped.
2007-08-01 07:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by ANGEL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tomatoes don't set fruit if it is too hot. Anything much above 80 degrees and it will not set fruit.
2007-07-31 23:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by renpen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Patience! The flowers will fall off and the fruit will take its place. All things take time.
2007-07-31 23:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by gale 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋