Why did my tomato plants give me big green leaves but very small tomatoes?

Question

Is there a probleme with my soil?

Answer 1

Miracle gro may be the problem.... The regular miracle grow is loaded with nitrogen..which works on the foilage part of the plant and makes it green..do not use too much or you get allleaves..Now when tomatoes start showing signs of putting blooms sacks on...miracle grow makes a sprayable fertilizer made for the blooming part and roots of the plants....it is high in phospherous which makes it bloom and take better root..Give it hardly any nitrogen at all when it is blooming time..and do not spray with regular miracle grow too often before the blooming period..

Answer 2

Sounds like too much nitrogen, and possibly too crowded a planting or too small a pot. If you're going to fertilize without a soil test, use something with an NPK ratio of 1:2:1 or 1:2:2.
Too much N gives you lovely leaves and poor flowering and fruiting.

Or you've planted a cultivar with small fruits, and there are many of them -- everything from cherry, grape and currant tomatoes to plum tomatoes like Roma and very early, small fruited tomatoes like Oregon Spring.

Anyhow, a good garden soil test is usually offered by your state Extension Service or Master Gardeners in the $8-10 range. They'll give you recommendations for fertilization and amounts of lime to apply.

Answer 3

Your tomatoes need a proper "balance" of nutrients. Packaged fertilizer should include on its label the Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium ratio of 5-10-10 or 10-10-10.
*******[too much nitrogen]********
will create tall, very green, leafy tomato plants with little or no tomatoes.
http://www.njtomato.com/growtip7.htm
NITROGEN WILL ALWAYS BE THE FIRST NUMBER ON THE FERTILIZER. You need to test the soil it may have (natural) high nitrogen content or the if you fertilized it might have been incorrect /or both
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How to prune tomatoes/Video
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Answer 4

hrm. are you sure you did not plant Cherry Tomatoes? you said small, but not HOW small. That would be my 1st guess. How tall are the plants? my father used to grow 7ft plants and regularly harvest tomatoes a pound or better. He once got a 3 pounder which did win some produce contests locally.
More info needed on this one for a better diagnosis. :)

Answer 5

Jim W is right, but the reason is because the tomato needs more water but the leaves are absorbing the water. That is why your leaves are huge and the tomato came out small.

Answer 6

It can be soil; but did they get enough rain or watering? That will happen with a lack of water. Another cause is IF someone is stealing your larger tomatoes. That happened to me this year. There were aways doz.s there, but none were getting ripe. I found out a neighbor had been going out to them....

Answer 7

you need to pull off the water leaves the huge leaves at the bottom of the plant

Answer 8

Over fertilizing will do it.

Happened to us one year. Monster plants and tiny tomatoes.

Answer 9

Sounds like to much feed