tomatoes

Hi,

I am a new member today. It seemed to take me ages to register as i kept getting things wrong! I am also doing something wrong with my greenhouse tomatoes. They look to be very healthy plants -Gardener's Delight and plums (variety not known)- they have had plenty of flowers but are not setting any fruit. Any helpful hints please?

 

Hi Sally welcome to the forum,try brushing your tomato flowers with a small soft brush to help pollinate them.

 

Hi Sally. Welcome to the forum. Not sure about the toms, sorry.

 

Evening, Sally, and welcome to the site.

 

Hi Sally, I am new to all this myself so can't really help but wanted to say hello

Laura x

 

Welcome to G.c Sally,make yorself at home:thumb::thumb:

 

You need to gentle shake the plants to dislodge the pollen - you should then be able to smell it! or at least to see it floating down. Misting can help too - higher humidity helps make the pollen sticky, or somesuch.

If your greenhouse is extremely hot then the fruit won't set.

If they are in pots, or grow bags, water little and often - for pots [I don't do bags, so don't know] I do about 1L / plant at the main watering and half that once or twice more during the day.
Less on overcast / cooler days, more on sweltering days.

They probably don't want to be in a draft, but that may be hard to control. My ideal is to open the roof vents and a louvre at the end of the greenhouse, so that the "rising heat" draws more air in - rather than leaving the door wide open and having a howling gale through the house - well, some slight exaggeration, but I'm sure you get the picture

 

Many thanks for your welcoming messages and useful tips. I will put them in to practice today.

Cheers, sally

 

and welcome to the forum Sally. Don't worry about your toms they will get there in the end.Hel.xxx.

 

I'm p[leased to tell you that fruits on the tomatoes are beginning to appear at last - I hope not too late for them to ripen.Thanks for your tips.

sally

 

Welcome to G.C. Sally, I think quite a lot of people are finding their tmatoes are a bit slower than other years - my firest ripe ones only appeared last Satruday.

 

HI MATOES AND AWARM WELCOME TO g,c:thumb:

 

Many thanks to all of you who sent suggestions about my non fruiting tomatoes. I am pleased to report that,although rather late, I had the best crop of tomatoes ever!.

 

:thumb:Hi Sally...Well done!...I've just grubbed mine out and cleared the decks ready for next years bounty

 

Hi nice to meet you.