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Old May 8, 2017   #13
Father'sDaughter
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Originally Posted by Container Guy View Post



Backstory:

I am growing organic tomatoes in DIY self watering containers in zone 9B in a screened in porch. I have a ~4' tall Roma plant and a 8 younger, medium-sized Super Sweet 100's in 3.5 gal containers (3 gal soil, .5 gal reservoir). They are all in a 1:1 mix of Miracle grow organic raised bed soil (0.09-0.08-0.09 with 0.02 Ca) and Lambert organic potting mix (lots of peat moss and some perlite, no fertilizer content listed). The Roma seedling was planted in late February and has blossomed a for about 4 weeks, but only set 3 fruits. The other blossoms have dropped. The SS100 seedlings were transplanted a month ago and the largest have just started setting blossoms.


Back tracking to your back story -- as the plants aren't accessible to pollinators, are you helping with this at all? If not, it's very possible that your blossom drop problem is due to lack of pollination. Some people shake blossoms, others use a cheap electric toothbrush to vibrate them.
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