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Post by Eli on Jun 12, 2023 2:13:31 GMT
I can't remember the names of my out-door tomatoes but two of them are very bushy and two are tall and straight. There are lots of flowers on the bushy ones but the others are slower.
I've bent the two straight ones over and put sticks to hold them down, in the hope they'll cascade over the side of the Belfast sink they're in.
 
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Post by balc2 on Jun 12, 2023 5:00:14 GMT
Your plants are looking very good with so many flowers, Eli! |
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Post by balc2 on Jun 16, 2023 19:43:16 GMT
Thanks to a couple of weeks of very warm weather my tomato seedling are almost plants now!  I knocked the biggest of them out of its pot to see how the roots are growing & I was pleased to see the roots are filling the compost nicely! But the self-sown one has got big enough to produce the first flower buds. At the end of the month I shall get some growbags & plant them all out. |
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Post by daitheplant on Jun 16, 2023 19:57:35 GMT
My Tomatoes are in the greenhouse and nowhere ready to bear fruit.  |
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Post by seaburn on Jun 17, 2023 11:52:31 GMT
I wonder if they have got too hot Dai? that will check their growth just as much as too cold.
I have some small spares that may get planted up to see if they will fruit.
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Post by grindle on Jun 18, 2023 3:34:01 GMT
mine in the greenhouse are only just starting to flower too daitheplant |
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Post by balc2 on Jun 18, 2023 5:29:50 GMT
The self-sown tom will probably open its first flowers today. It is very far ahead compared to the plants from the March sowing!
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Post by balc2 on Jun 21, 2023 5:42:26 GMT
The self-sown tomato has indeed opened its first flowers this week! I removed the first sideshoots yesterday but as it is getting too high to support itself I wrapped some string around it to hold it up. The string is attached to a hook in the balcony ceiling. I will have to put it in a bigger pot very soon.
The March sown seedlings are looking more like proper tomato plants every day now! At the end of the month I shall put them in some growbags.
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Post by Eli on Jun 24, 2023 18:49:42 GMT
Two of my outdoor tomatoes are nice and bushy but the other two are growing upright.
I put canes with them a while ago to try and train them downwards but they keep bending upwards. Maybe they're not proper outdoor varieties, I thought those were all bushy.
There are no flowers on them yet but the bushy ones have loads.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 24, 2023 19:47:53 GMT
The 2 that keep trying to grow up right will continue to do so. You need to train them to some canes or overhead support. I have a wire stretched along the width of the balcony and I tie vertical strings from the base of the plants and tie the strings to the wire above them & then twist the plants around a string till it reaches the top when I remove the growing tip. You need to snap out the side shoots as they appear. You normally only want 1 single stem which will bear trusses every few leaves. The tomatoes ripe 1 truss at a time starting from the lowest.
Bush tomatoes produce almost all their fruit in a very short time whereas cordon tomatoes produce over a much longer time.
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Post by Eli on Jun 25, 2023 10:50:41 GMT
They're in a Belfast sink balc2, and there's nowhere to tie them on to. I think I'll just leave them alone to go their own way.
I've found a clump of tomato plants growing between some roses. They must have come from seeds in last year's compost which I tipped on the soil. They're quite tall and I may put some canes to hold them. They're too big to move.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 25, 2023 19:59:01 GMT
Good luck to you, Eli with your new found toms!  My self-sown plant I think may have some seed-sized tomatoes on it - early days yet to see if they really have been fertilized! |
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Post by Eli on Jul 1, 2023 15:21:04 GMT
I'm never sure what to do about the leaves on my tomato plants - should I cut some of them off or not ? or should I shorten them ... ?
All advice will be welcome
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Post by seaburn on Jul 1, 2023 18:16:49 GMT
I never take the leaves off as they are feeding the plant. Some do when the fruits are slow to ripen.
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Post by Eli on Jul 1, 2023 18:59:51 GMT
That's why I can't understand why people cut them off.
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I knocked the biggest of them out of its pot to see how the roots are growing & I was pleased to see the roots are filling the compost nicely! But the self-sown one has got big enough to produce the first flower buds. At the end of the month I shall get some growbags & plant them all out.
My self-sown plant I think may have some seed-sized tomatoes on it - early days yet to see if they really have been fertilized! 
