Anyone else having trouble growing tomatoes, i was told it was because it was a cold november, but my friends ones are growing fine, mine are not much over a foot in height with yellowing leaves.
paix1,
Jan 20, 9:56am
yeah, mine aren't what they should be either! First year in this property & I think wrong position (not enough sun) combined with, as you say, a cold November has done it. They look healthy but small toms & not growing fast enough. Rest of garden has been great. Oh well, back to the drawing board lol
stevee6,
Jan 20, 10:28am
Try a tomato fertiliser.
nzoomed,
Jan 20, 10:33am
is there such a thing! lol What do tomatoes like to feed on !
owl32,
Jan 20, 10:35am
Mine are doing fab. Second yr in tunnel house. Much better than last year, I have removed a certain amount of foliageso they have light and made sure all the laterals have been removed also. Water them on average two times a week, really well.Have cherry tomatoes already and only one tomato looked like it hadn't formed properly, out of 8 plants. And two of those plants were seedlings from last year, and have done really well. I'm completely stoked. Although my cucumber died yet again. Stupid thing. This coming summer I'm going to pot in, and take it outside regularly to get the bees humming around it. All my cucumbers grow to 5cms and die off.
owl32,
Jan 20, 10:36am
Yes, get tui tomato fertiliser from your local garden centre.
paix1,
Jan 20, 11:17am
.yep, mine were fertilized with Tui tomato fertiliser. wondering actually whether that contributed to the problem!
pheebs1,
Jan 24, 7:49am
mine were doing this and ive discovered why! they are not getting pollinated, so the fruitgrows to a small size waiting to be pollinated and if it doesnt happen then it turns yellow shrivels up and falls off getting them pollinated is a beggar as the female flowers only open for an hour or two in the very early morning so hand pollination might be the go even then its not a sure thing!
helianthus,
Jan 24, 8:06am
Tapping the stems of tomato plants helps with pollination as they are wind pollinated. Mine are laden with good sized fruit.
malone4,
Jan 24, 2:58pm
yip thats it.
or if in a green house ,put an electric fan in there. much better than tapping and disturbing the plants or pollinating them all with a feather.
reeb,
Jan 24, 3:20pm
no they don't like cold, maybe take all the yellowed leaves off , thats all you can do, does help to prevent disease. cut the stems if you need to mine where like that did what i said and now all good. weather got warmer.
budgel,
Jan 27, 8:26am
I find that sheep poo pellets are good to get the plants vigourous and growing well, then the tomato fertiliser once the green growth is well established.
lythande1,
Jan 27, 12:43pm
Hungry! You did put in lots of compost and manure! And have watered them well since!
willemakeit,
Jan 27, 2:01pm
give it a drink of diluted worm tea.
cigar1,
Jan 27, 2:28pm
owl32 wrote: Yes, get tui tomato fertiliser from your local garden centre
Be careful with it dont put it right up to the stem put it away from the tomato plant.I killed my tomato plant putting right up to the stem it kills them :(
liggy2,
Jan 27, 3:43pm
Sounds to me like its short on Nitrogen but tomatoes are slow this year due to a late season.
sossie1,
Jan 27, 3:50pm
the first lot I planted were terrible due to weather, so i dug them up and threw them away. Sewed heaps of different types of seeds indoors in small pots, now we are overrun with the things, basically i have just watered them heaps and a fed once a week, but they won't ripen til Feb. We also have a vege plot that grows tomatoes every summer, as they started self-seeding, so we end up with a mass of various cherry tomatoes.
cruiser00,
Jan 27, 5:37pm
Ours are awesome! 6 plants and over 200 tomatoes on them :o)
velenski,
Jan 28, 7:33am
82 tomatoes on one plant (thats what i could see ,more hiding inside)and just as many flowers :) ,first time growing this type (first time growing tomatoes:)
teataiti,
Jan 28, 8:47am
Heck I think I'm doing well if I get ten.
donnabeth,
Jan 28, 12:18pm
I'm reaping poor return for poor investment for the first time ever. We hoped to have our house sold by now, so I didn't take much care when planting tomatoes and used commercial fertilser(tomato fertilizer and Nitrophoska) instead of the usual careful mix of compost, manure and seaweed. Other years I gave them away in up to 5kg lots wherever I went; this year it looks like I'll be supplementing them from the shop.
nzoomed,
Jan 29, 7:23am
after a week of using nitrophoska and organic 100, the leaves are going green again!
chazz6,
Jan 29, 7:28am
Ours are going great. have about 6 rows of about 5m each of them.
jason60,
Jan 29, 2:40pm
Ive never grown tomatoes, first time but they are not going red they have been green and big big tomatoes since about xmas, but have yet to even start changing colour
Is it still to early for Red Tomatoes!
We have had plenty of hot warm days in the last month.
tarawera99,
Jan 29, 7:16pm
Mine are just going red now
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