THE TOMATO GROWING THREAD 2018

JWK is correct about ethylene gas which ripens fruit, that is fine putting banana's or skins in a small confined space to ripen fruit at the end of the season, say in a bag, box or drawer but putting banana's or skins in a greenhouse would have no effect. Chemically to ripen fruit with ethylene gas they use tons of gas to completely saturate the atmosphere. In the case of wharehouse ripening they use so much gas is displaces the air to the point it would not support life.
You are best sticking to not overwatering and using your Chempak NO.4 High Potash.

 

I'm finding that the pollination of the youngest trusses is not as good as the earlier trusses.....probably due to the excessive heat.

 

Lol I've just noticed one of my Cherokee Smokey Purple Toms seems to be attached to stem where the others aren't.

 

I seem to be having more luck with the Cherokee Smokey Purple ones than the Moneymakers so far and I've also noticed most of my tomato plants seem to be getting loads of flowers on now when I thought they weren't growing.

 

Still tomatoes but not qùte growing.....

If anyone lives near a Range Shop, they're selling all their Unwins seeds off half price. We got loads of Tomato seeds yesterday from 59p and multipacks ( 4 packets in 1 ) for 99p.

 

Tomato , Oh Happy Day - Beefsteak (New Introduction) BLIGHT RESISTANT, Tomato - Beefsteak (Large) Seed

Also 'exclusive' to other seed companies. I might have a look in Wyevale when pasing today to check whether they stock them and the there's a chance of getting some in their 50p seed sale next month.

Seeds Tomato

Tomato 'Oh Happy Day' F1 Hybrid | Thompson & Morgan

 

My outdoor toms, ‘Tumbling Tom’ & ‘Cherry Falls’, three of each.



Lots of fruits, and will start to ripen in the next few days.
The first of my ‘Sungold’ has ripened in the greenhouse

 

I thought my Big Zac quad mega bloom was going to be big...... now I have a quad Gigantomo megabloom, it's HUGE!

 

May I ask when I cut the top off on tom plant. My Indigo Cherry has about 6 trusses of flowers but just the bottom has fruit. I'm not sure even how you do it but if the top was snapped off will it bare more fruit even when they are just flowers?

 

Tap the plants morning and evening, it helps pollinate the flowers to produce fruit.

It's the norm to stop main growth after the fifth or sixth truss ( or in my case 1st truss [trying to grow some giants] ), this will divert the plants energy to developing fruits.