Tomato Planting tips??
Question:My plant had multiple buds but only one tomato. It split so I picked it, even though I see the other (flowers, now tiny tomatos,) the one was the only one to grow, but it must have grown too fast since it split it self down the middle. I have pictures of it, I thought it was from over watering, but I don't know.
So I have a split tomato, can I plant it and start another tomato plant??
Any help is nice, and thank you for your time.
Answers:
Here is some information that I use, and then a startling fact about tomato seeds.
When I plant a tomato plant, I dig a hole about 5 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep and in the hole I make a rather thick mixture of the removed (but pulverized dirt, a cup of bone meal, and water. Thick meaning like the thickest pancake batter you would use for fluffy pancakes. Then I put the plant roots and part of the stem into this mixture and fill in the hole with the remaining dirt and the water the area cood once. the bone meal increases the amount of bolssoms and thus the amount of tomatoes you will get.
At the end of a season (and I usually plant many plants) as I am picking all the tomatoes left just before the first frost, I undoubtedly leave a few either rotten or too small tomatoes on the ground (I collect all of the ones I think large enough and any that are not ripe I store in closed paper bags where the gas they give off will stay in the bag and ripen them-- you can check every few days and take out the ones that are ripe). Thes that I levae laying on the ground will somehow survive the winter and every spring I get several free tomato plants which have sprouted by themself. Hope this information helps
have you fed your plants? i feed my tomatoes 2 tablespoons of Epsom's salt, 1 teaspoon of baby shampoo, to a gallon of water. feed them when they are blooming, you will get lots and lots of tomatoes, and they will be larger than normal.
If there are to many of the little flowers on each thing, they don't grow very big. pinch some off. You can try growing from the other tomato, never hurts to try.
More Related Questions & Answers...