Growing Tomatoes on My Balcony - no tyrusses yet and worried

I have a few questions reagrding my tomato plants:

1) I planted them from seed late April, they are now about 15 cm but no trusses have appeared.

2) They are in the grow bags now, I put them in a week ago but because of the warm wet weather mushrooms have grown in the grow bags - will the mushrooms kill the tomatoes and are they edible?

Are there any suggestions to make them grow properly?

Thanks in advance

 

Oooh – if you have mushrooms growing in your grow bag then it's likely that the fungus was present in the bag/compost when you bought it. I'd be wary if I were you – tomatoes are pretty delicate to say they least – the biggest thing to worry about is blight which is caused by a fungal infection – it will pretty much ruin your whole crop and blight is triggered by warm and wet conditions. I'm lucky and never suffered blight but I'm pretty sure that mushrooms wouldn't be present so I don't think blight is your problem but I would watch them very carefully.

Difficult to say what type of mushrooms they are without a photograph but I would definitley take them out of the growbag.

What type of tomatoes are they?

 

Hi. Your plants sound a bit young yet to be producing trusses. As long as they are looking healthy, they will fruit in their own good time. Keep them on the dry side so you don't drown the roots. If the fungus in the compost is bothering you just pull them out but I don't think they will do any harm (the 'mushrooms' are just the fruiting bodies of the mycelium that is growing in the compost). When the trusses form depends on where you are growing them and what type they are.

 

If you sowed the seed in April, its a bit early for the first trussses to show. Don't worry they will appear in good time.
Don't worry about the fungii either. In the past I've used spent mushroom compost mixed with growbag compost to grow toms in pots and I had a great crop of tomatoes and mushrooms too.
I wouldn't chance eating the ones you have unless you can make a positive identification, the majority of fungii are ok to eat but some are toxic to varying degrees!

 

I'd give the mushrooms a very wide berth, as mentioned already they vary from delicious to deadly and it can be very hard to tell which is which!
Several of my tomato plants still have no trusses, I care not!! Everything in its own time I say

 

Ok, thanks guys, thanks. They are Sweet Million F1 variety - I've been feeding them a little anyway is this ok? How often shall I water them - I have been watering them quite a bit?

 

You need to use a bit of judgement as far as regards watering. Aim to keep them moist but not soggy. The ones in my GH are in pots and I can judge if they need watering by tipping the pot slightly with my toe - if light I water.
You shouldn't really need to feed yet as there should have been suffient nutrients in the growbags to last about 6 weeks though if you've been watering heavily it may have washed out. Don't start regular feeding until the first trusses set otherwise you can get too much leafy growth.