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Does anything "create" blooms on tomato plants that just sprout leaves?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by ScribePharisee, Jun 6, 2008.

  1. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    The question says it all.
     
  2. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Nope...
     
  3. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    And the award for hardest thread title to read and figure out what it means while drinking goes to: scribepharisee.

    Come on down!
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I'm not understanding what you're asking.

    What's the plant doing? Growing new branches?
     
  5. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    No..it's just all leaves, no blooms. Not one bloom in three months. I understand there's bloom spray if you have blooms and no bees to pollenate, but I've never seen this where it's just all leaves.
     
  6. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    That, I can't answer. But I do appreciate you forcing me to read your thread title multiple times until I figured it out. I guess I didn't even know that tomato plants flowered.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    What variety of tomato have you got?
     
  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Dead.
     
  9. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    Sounds like you might have over-fertilized. How much have you been using?
     
  10. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    No fertilizer. Have them in 5 gallon buckets with store-bought vegetable potting soil. Watered every day.
     
  11. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    I used to do that too -- would get 6-foot tall plants that would develop blooms and no tomatoes.
    If you get blooms, you can hand pollenate -- basically, wet your finger or a q-tip and stick in the bloom and then in another (yes, you are jacking off a tomato plant). Also, you might want to take a screwdriver and put some holes in the bottom of the bucket for drainage.
    Good luck. I could never get my plants to do anything but grow taller.
     
  12. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    Too much water.
     
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