Struggling tomato plant ?
Question:I have 5 different tomato plants in my garden. All of them are thriving and getting ready to fruit except one. The one in question is called a Cherokee Purple. We purchased it from a local feed/garden store. We were recommended it by the owner because of the taste. Anyway . . . it just seemed to stop growing at about half the size of all the others. The plant is very greeen and looks perfectly healthy . . . but it hasn't produced any flowers yet . . . and all of the other tomato plants have. Does anyone have any experience with a Cherokee Purple ?
Answers:
First, you don't say what the others are. But the Cherokee is an heirloom. On average, heirloom tomatoes will bloom later than hybrids. They are tastier, and many may be more vulnerable to infections because their genetics has not been manipulated to have this color or that, resistance to this or that, or maturing quickly switches..
I am in zone 6, and I just barely noticed a bud on my Cherokee Purple the other day. All my hybrids are in bloom or with fruit already. The heirlooms that are in bloom or fruit in my garden were in a greenhouse, so they got a headstart.
Keep doing what you are doing, and give it time. You'll be pleasantly rewarded
Though I'm not a pro-gardener, I have experienced it also. Even of the same variety, you may notice that one plant won't bear much fruits as others even if it look so healthy. Every year I plant different kinds of tomatoes to see which is better to produce. This time I have mini-tomato. There are 5 plants and only 1 plant does not bear fruits yet though the rests are getting red already. I asked some available experts at the neighborhood, they said that the soil right thru on that plant is not well fertilized. And some said also that maybe that plant is a "man", in literal saying, that man never produce anything. So no flowers and no fruits.
*Anyway, try to be patient as who knows that one day it will produce flowers and turn into fruits without your attention.
Sounds like you plant has been over fertilized or it could be a lack of calcium.
Healthy green plant with no blooms usually means it reacted to the fertilizer you used for all the plants.
Its size could be normal for that species of tomato.
I would say be patient, it may come around as a "late bloomer"..
Good Luck
ps
a little lime in the soil before you plant will rid you of the calcium deficiency.
You can by a bottle of spray (for rot) to help it now.
Is it still between 70-90 days? Thats when it should go all things being equal that is.
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