Comments on: Growing Tomatoes from Seed

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:54:44 +0000

Hi, there are a few possible reasons for your plants not flowering. Firstly are they getting enough sun, ideally tomato plants need at least 6 hours a day and should be spaced far enough apart that they don’t shade one another.
Secondly have you been giving them too much fertilizer, especially high nitrogen, if you over fertilize it can cause plants not to produce blossom.

Another possibility is pests, spider mites can prevent the plants from blossoming, look for small brown or yellow dots on the leaves, if you see them accompanied with small strands of silk, then you probably have spider mites and need to treat them. If you have them its up to you how you get rid of them, but a miticide spray is one of the most effective ways.

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:36:56 +0000

can you tell me why my tomatoe plants are about 2 feet tall and i do not have any flowers on them yet??they are beefstake tomatoes did i do something wrong? will i get flowers and tomatoes?? i have sen other plants 1/2 ft tall covered with flowers

By: Tomato Planting Schedule for Seeds or Plants | Home Grown Tomatoes

Tomato Planting Schedule for Seeds or Plants | Home Grown Tomatoes — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:04:40 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:02:21 +0000

Larry is spot on with this comment, you cannot extract the seed from hybrid plants and use them the following year for the reason he has stated. Thanks Larry for your valuable contribution

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:24:38 +0000

Hybrid seeds are useless if you attempt to culivate them from the fruit. They were derived by breeding plants artificially and the resulting fruit will not produce the same seed.

Hybrid seeds produce great plants and fruit, but they are only good for one season. You can’t repeat the crop by drying out a tomato. I have seen people try this with grape hybrids for example, and end up with tomatoes that look nothing like grape tomatoes.

Non-hybrids on the other hand can be recreated from the seeds from the fruit, but they may not deliver the same quality.

You may want to make up a list of tomatoes that you can successfully extract the seeds from, so people know which ones are best. I believe Marglobe is one.

By: Growing Red Tomatos » Blog Archive » Growing Heirloom Tomatoes from Seed

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:29:01 +0000

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