Tomatoes not flowering...should I boost the P-K?

bertaluchi

bertaluchi

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So I have a patch of tomatoes in the ground for almost 50 days and they have only produced a few flowers and tomatoes. I know I probably had too much nitrogen in the soil when I planted but I have not fed them at all. Should or could I use a P-K booster on them? Will this hurt them in any way? I just want my patch to produce. Any comments or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
Nutes and Nugs

Nutes and Nugs

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Even though they were planted 50 days ago the sun is still on the veg setting.
I would leave them alone if they are green and healthy.

My plants are about a foot high and a few flowers but no tomatoes yet.
A month from now they will be triple in size an full of flowers.
I dont pinch the 'suckers' or feed it anything though I have good organic soil.
Grass clippings are great and help keep the soil moist on top and nitrogen.

I drive pipes into the ground to hold up the cages then train the vines up the inside
of the cage most of July.
By August they can grow 8 feet or more out the top of the cage.

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Psyphish

Psyphish

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Bottled organic bloom nutrient wouldn't hurt. All of my tomatoes exploded into flower/fruit when I started giving the plants AN Mother Earth Super Tea.
 
bertaluchi

bertaluchi

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cbtbudz said:
Are they producing now? Are you pruning the suckers?
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I have been pruning and they started to bloom and actually have some little tomatoes on them now. The problem is I have an armadillo living somewhere on my property and he comes looking for worms and grubs in the soil and has really fucked my garden all up. I stayed at my girlfriends house on friday night and on saturday afternoon when I got home from work I saw the damage. My cucumbers were completely fried as they dug up the roots and they were sitting in the hot ass sun all day. They killed about 5 of my eggplants that were also just starting to produce and they gave a good try at digging up my tomatoes as well. Big root balls on the tomatoes and the cages to hold them in place saved them for me. I just put more soil around the bare root ball every morning when I wake up. I now have narrowed down where they are coming from. I think they are living under my shed. So I have traps set up and I hope I can catch this little bastard before he kills everything. He also killed my watermellon vines and dug up a bunch of my onions but the onions just went back in the ground, I think they will be fine. He hasn't got to my 2 little cannabis plants yet either, keeping my fingers crossed on that. So yeah, Fuck armadillos.
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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Im in armpit California and the only time I saw an a rmadillo was at the zoo. Keep the suckers pruned and that beast at bay and you will be g oood.
 
johnny961

johnny961

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2 much nitrogen will cause excessive leaf production & late blooming. They will come along & produce. Same thing happened to me last year with my peppers. A lot of leaves & late producing fruit. Got a good harvest but the hard frost came before many got to finish.
 
mwooten102

mwooten102

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You're probably watering too much. Stop watering and you'll see fruit begin to appear.

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dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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bertaluchi said:
So I have a patch of tomatoes in the ground for almost 50 days and they have only produced a few flowers and tomatoes. I know I probably had too much nitrogen in the soil when I planted but I have not fed them at all. Should or could I use a P-K booster on them? Will this hurt them in any way? I just want my patch to produce. Any comments or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
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How have your temps been? Temps above 90F will kill the male pollen so no fertilization can take place.
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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cbtbudz said:
Im not to sure about this. We have been over 90 for a month or 2 right now about 107 andmine are making tons of tomatoes.
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http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/node/1408/print
http://www.tomatodirt.com/too-hot-for-tomatoes.html

So what's the downside in really hot weather?


Stress, stress, stress. Daytime temperatures consistently above 90° F or night time temperatures consistently above 75° F create all kinds of stress for tomato plants. It’s too hot for tomatoes to be pollinated. That means fewer fruit.

But even more worrisome is the toll the heat takes on the plants. Heat stress forces a plant to increase transpiration (pumping water through its system) to survive, especially when the heat continues for prolonged periods. Heat stress not only slows down your plant’s progress in producing, but it also makes your plant more vulnerable to diseases and pests.

A heat wave means …

  • tomato blossoms won’t open
  • pollen is destroyed
  • no new fruit will set until normal temperatures resume
  • leaves curl
  • plants concentrate on simply surviving
C+P ^^^
I don't doubt your personal experience. I'm having a hell of a time with my plants here...Its been mostly above 100 for a while...There are heat resistant varieties I'm trying out like Black Krim (Johnnies Seeds).
Can you tell me what you're growing? What are you doing that I'm not doing? Also can you come here and show me??? I'm all about the visual...haha
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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Im growing sun gold cherry tomatoes, green zebra, Cherokee purple, top 44. All are producing this year I planted in the same spot I grew them last year. But I started no till on these ones. After I harvested the last years plants I threw alfalfa meal, kelp meal, soft rock phosphate, labs and couple hand fills of homemade biochar then waited for couple months during winter and planted alfalfa, white clovers, chopped and droppedthe aalfalfa. Added some homemade vermicompost and planted babies in February. I also pruned suckers which I never did before. And companion planting of marigolds, mosquito plants and basil. When my phone charges up some more ill post some fresh tomato harvest.
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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Yeah maybe the mulch helps also for the higher temps. I just looked up my area and its generally gets 110 days over 90 each year. Ill talk to my tomatoes and they will talk to your tomatoes and we will all have tomatoes.
 
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