Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: B!TCHVILLE USA
Posts: 15
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Has anyone ever grown any tomatoe plant that did not produce any tomatoes ? Im talking about budding and then nothing no flower no nothing ? Im really sick that it takes all this time and then nothing wow so dissapointed .
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 4,488
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Of course. More than once. But I never went through a season, no matter how bad, that I didn't get at least some tomatoes off one of the plants. Chin up. There is a lot of the growing season still left. There is still plenty of time to get your delicious home grown tomato.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
Posts: 21,169
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Central NJ
Posts: 234
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Yes, I had a Caspian Pink plant years ago that produced buds but that was it. I never saw a single fruit.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: San Antonio, TX Zone 8B
Posts: 118
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I just had to pull my Hillbilly due to too few flowers. It was ovet 10 ft tall, too. And the buds it did produce sometimes had no petals or very underdeveloped petals. Apparently other people have a similar experience with Hillbilly.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Virginia Beach
Posts: 2,648
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I just pulled a mule NAR plants about ten days ago. I started seedlings for my SIL this spring and she had one, too. Stinks, doesn't it? You keep hoping something will happen and then nothing. I had a smaller plant to put in its place but of course it's way behind in size.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central Arkansas
Posts: 190
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High Nitrogen and low Phosphate can sometimes be the cause. You could try pruning and adding some super Phosphate.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: B!TCHVILLE USA
Posts: 15
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i just went ahead and pulled it and starting all over again since I grow my maters inside under grow lights and hopefully the next bunch will do better and thank you all for letting me know it was just not me ....
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 7,068
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I usually have one or two every year that act like that and sometimes it will be one of the better producing varieties. This year it was Akers West Virginia.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Rockvale, TN Zone 7A
Posts: 526
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I have had two Mr. Stripeys, over the years, that have been like that.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Newbury Park, CA
Posts: 51
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I had several plants do this last year. Some got very tall, most looked green and healthy and had flowers but little or no fruit and the fruit that did set often had BER. This year I got a soild test and my PH was high. This year the same beds are producing alot of fruit. I can't say for sure that it was the ph but I suspect it was. My soil tests showed that I wasn't lacking in any nutrients either so all I did was added the sulfer and didn't even add any fertilizer. Plants upto 8 feet tall with tons of fruit.
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