JumbleTown Ireland - View Single Post - Tomato plant - any ideas how to encourage it to produce?

moloney2 · **Posted: 11-09-2009 , 04:05 PM** #2

You need to pinch out the tips of the plant to encourage it to produce fruit, also pinch out the top of the plant. All of your growth is gone into leaf production not fruit so when you pinch out the tips it stimulates the plant to reproduce, in other words lots of tomatoes!:) Feed it with a tomato feed only as well . If your tomato plants are in a conservatory then you should have no problem getting it to fruit this year- if they are in a glasshouse then there might be a problem with ripening the tomatoes. When it has flowers then gently shake the plant so that it fertilises itself- there might not be enough insects to do this for you later in the year.
best wishes with your crop
moloney2

	Posted: 11-09-2009 , 04:05 PM #2
moloney2 Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 68	tomato plants You need to pinch out the tips of the plant to encourage it to produce fruit, also pinch out the top of the plant. All of your growth is gone into leaf production not fruit so when you pinch out the tips it stimulates the plant to reproduce, in other words lots of tomatoes!:) Feed it with a tomato feed only as well . If your tomato plants are in a conservatory then you should have no problem getting it to fruit this year- if they are in a glasshouse then there might be a problem with ripening the tomatoes. When it has flowers then gently shake the plant so that it fertilises itself- there might not be enough insects to do this for you later in the year. best wishes with your crop moloney2